Ellen DeGeneres Tears Up While Honoring Stephen 'tWitch' Boss: 'We'll Never Make Sense of It' - Yahoo Entertainment

Ellen DeGeneres is urging her fans "to honor" the precocious Stephen "tWitch" Boss this vacation season, aft his death astatine property 40.

On Friday, DeGeneres, 64, shared a teary video to Instagram successful which she said admitted that "the past eleven days person been truly pugnacious for everyone" successful the aftermath of Boss' death.

"Everyone is successful symptom and trying to marque consciousness of it, and we'll ne'er marque consciousness of it," the comedian spoke into her front-facing camera. "The holidays are hard, I think, anyway, but to grant tWitch I deliberation the champion happening that we tin bash is to laugh, hug each other, play games and creation and sing. That's the mode we grant him, is we bash the things that helium loved to do, which is dancing."

ellen degeneres/instagram Ellen DeGeneres speaks astir Stephen 'tWitch' Boss connected Instagram

"He loved music, helium loved games, truthful we bash that," DeGeneres continued successful the video. "And I cognize it seems hard, it seems impossible, but that's however we grant him."

The comedian implored her followers to "hug each different and archer each different we emotion each different and fto radical cognize we're determination for them and cheque successful connected people."

"So, blessed holidays everybody," DeGeneres said, earlier she acknowledged: "it's not a blessed holiday, but…"

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"[Boss] was axenic light, arsenic everybody successful the comments said," she added astatine the extremity of the video. "If you knew him, you knew that. If you didn't cognize him you saw it. Let's grant him and deliberation astir him and nonstop emotion to 1 another."

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DeGeneres, who near a azygous reddish emoji bosom successful the caption to her Instagram station Friday, has been sharing videos of her favourite moments with the precocious star connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ever since his death.

One video, posted connected Dec. 15, included Boss teaching DeGeneres a creation and him becoming the show's DJ.

"Whenever he's not present it's conscionable antithetic … he's my pal, he's my sidekick, due to the fact that we person this connection," she said successful the video. "Just looking implicit and helium makes maine laugh. He really, truly makes maine laugh."

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"I emotion you tWitch and you cognize that much. We archer each different that each time erstwhile we accidental goodbye aft the show, we some accidental emotion you," she continued. "He says emotion you overmuch and I accidental 'Love you.' And truthful he's ne'er going to beryllium retired of my life. He's ever a portion of my life."

The clip concluded with DeGeneres giving Boss a photograph of the brace with their arms wrapped astir each other. He past emotionally told the host, "I emotion you and besides I emotion the household that we've gained here. And thing I'll ever retrieve is that you gave maine a spot to conscionable beryllium myself."

Boss died connected Dec. 14 via suicide. He is survived by his wife, Allison Holker Boss, 34, arsenic good as children Zaia, 3, Maddox, 6, and Weslie, 14.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is considering suicide, delight interaction the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, substance "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line astatine 741741 oregon spell to 988lifeline.org.