Six months after the death of famed talk show DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, his mother has shared some reflection on his death. Connie Alexander Boss, 59, lost her son last December, when Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, 40, was found dead in a hotel room in Encino, California. Not long after, his death was ruled a suicide by a single gunshot to the head, but Connie tries not to dwell on how her son died, stating that she finds comfort in the fact that “this is not totally the end.”
“Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday, and then other times it feels like it’s been so long since I’ve seen him,” Connie Alexander Boss told PEOPLE Magazine in an interview. According to her own account of the days leading up to Boss’ death, Connie had seen no indication that her son was struggling with any kind of mental illness. She described her son as “so in tune with analyzing and trying to make himself better” and remembered that he had been reading self-help books at the time of his passing, so the news of his suicide was “a complete shock”, per Deadline.
Even after hearing that her son had passed, Connie recalls that “[suicide] was not my first thought — that it had been his hand. I really thought something had happened to him.”
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ Mother Recounts Their Last Conversation
In the months after the death of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, his mother says that she has spent a lot of time being introspective, wondering if she should have prevented his suicide. Connie recalls that the last conversation she had with her son, the day before he died, had been a regular conversation that gave no indication of his impending death.
She told PEOPLE,
“I’d been sick, so he texted to ask how I was feeling. “That was the last time we talked…He started that last text with, ‘I love you, Mom.’ And I responded, ‘I love you more.'”
More of the people around Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss had similar reactions to his death, both before and after it was ruled a suicide. Ellen DeGeneres, the host of the Ellen DeGeneres Show where tWitch worked as a DJ and executive producer, described him as “pure love and light”. His wife, Allison Horker Boss, said that her husband “lit up every room he walked into.”
By all accounts, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss was a perfectly cheerful person, at least externally, when he took his own life; the mystery as to why he died may remain unsolved for quite some time, if not forever.