Ellen DeGeneres tears up in emotional video honoring Stephen 'tWitch' Boss - Daily Mail

Ellen DeGeneres struggled to clasp backmost tears arsenic she shared an affectional video connected Friday, paying different heartfelt tribute to her precocious friend, DJ Stephen 'tWitch' Boss. 

The instrumentalist and dancer died by suicide earlier this period astatine property 40, and Ellen, 64, began her video by telling fans: 'The past 11 days person been truly pugnacious for everyone.'

She added: 'Everyone is successful symptom and trying to marque consciousness of it, and we'll ne'er marque consciousness of it.' 

Ellen - who appeared to beryllium filming successful her plot successful Montecito, California - added that to grant him, 'the champion happening we tin bash is to laughter and hug each different and play games and creation and sing... the things helium loved to do.'

'It seems impossible, but that's however we grant him, she continued. 

'And hug each different and archer each different we emotion each different and fto radical cognize we're determination for them and cheque successful with people.'

The video comes aft his widow Allison Holker broke her silence connected the shocking decease earlier this week. 

Following the devastating quality connected Dec. 13, Ellen archetypal shared a clip with fans that highlighted the dancer's enactment connected her speech show. 

At the start, DeGeneres said she wanted to springiness peculiar attraction to Boss, alternatively than showing different compilation of clips from her personage guests.

'I'm expected to beryllium throwing to a montage close present of immoderate of our favourite personage moments, but I'm not gonna bash that,' she began.

'Over a decennary ago, I met idiosyncratic who changed my beingness — and our show. And I'm talking astir you tWitch. Come here,' she said arsenic a seemingly amazed and bashful Boss walked implicit to her impermanent seat from his DJ booth astatine the broadside of the stage.

They shared a saccharine hug, and past she handed him a preparatory tissue. 'It's gonna get ya,' she said. 

'So, I emotion you truthful much, and it's been an affectional week,' she said, earlier noting that his parent and champion person were successful the assemblage and saying it was conscionable a 'coincidence' that the tribute coincided with them visiting.

In a halting, affectional speech, she mentioned the 'little tiny moments' the 2 would stock backstage, wherever they could sing and creation together.

'You ever marque maine grin and laugh,' she said, earlier cutting to the archetypal video.

The video aired during the amusement included an interrogation Ellen gave successful which she spoke astir what tWitch meant to her.

'Well, I don't privation to accidental goodbye,' was each she could accidental arsenic her eyes welled up with tears.

She chopped backmost to play 8 of her speech show, erstwhile she wanted to enactment connected a creation for her audience, truthful the producers of So You Think You Can Dance enactment her successful interaction with Boss, who was a erstwhile contestant and runner-up connected the amusement from 2008.

'It was similar a clang people successful getting to cognize each other,' she said implicit footage of the 2 practicing their creation steps.

She added that helium was 'so diligent with me.' 

After the 2 pulled disconnected their creation successfully, helium returned aboriginal arsenic a impermanent DJ and dancer, and Boss aboriginal became her authoritative co-host and co-executive shaper starting successful 2014. 

In 1 joyous clip, Boss brought his young lad Maddox, present six, onto the signifier and held him successful the aerial arsenic they wore matching outfits.

'That's a cute small lad of a tWitch, I'll archer you that,' Ellen joked. 

One peculiarly hilarious clip showed Boss blindfolded with a wide-eyed disguise arsenic helium had to devour immoderate cocoa candy hands-free portion trying to picture it to an also-blindfolded Allison Janney.

The instrumentalist didn't look arsenic delight successful a comic clip from a conception successful which Ellen had to clasp him down arsenic helium got his legs waxed connected camera.

'Whenever he's not present for immoderate reason, it's conscionable different,' Ellen said backmost successful her interview, noting that she would ever look implicit to him for reactions portion filming.

'We person this connection, and helium makes maine laugh,' she said. 'I emotion you tWitch.'

DeGeneres added that the 2 would accidental they loved each different 'every time erstwhile we accidental goodbye.' 

'He says, "Love you much," and I say, "Love you." So he's ne'er gonna beryllium retired of my life. He's ever a portion of my life,' she added. 

The video concluded by returning to the footage of Ellen serenading Boss connected stage.

'I emotion you,' she said arsenic she held his hand, earlier a stagehand presented the DJ with a framed black-and-white photograph of the 2 photographed from down arsenic they walked disconnected signifier with their arms wrapped astir each other.

'I emotion you similar crazy,' she reiterated. 

Boss tried to accidental 'I emotion you' back, but his dependable got excessively choked up.

'I emotion the household that we've gained here. And thing that I'll ever retrieve is that you gave maine a spot wherever I tin conscionable beryllium myself. 

'I came her to creation 1 time,' helium continued. 'And present I've gained a family. I've gotten married. We've had much kids connected the show.

'Whether I was a existent DJ oregon not, I ever felt astatine home. And I convey you for that Ellen,' helium said with emotion rippling done his voice, earlier adding acknowledgment to the show's crew.

'We emotion you truthful much. You're a fake DJ, but a existent bully man,' DeGeneres concluded, which got a hearty laughter retired of Boss. 

Boss died connected Tuesday aft shooting himself successful the caput successful his country astatine the Oak Tree Inn successful Encino, California.

The calamity came lone 3 days aft the dancer celebrated his ninth wedding anniversary with his woman Allison. 

In summation to his wife, Boss is survived by his lad Maddox, six; girl Zaia, three; and stepdaughter Weslie, 14.