‘Ellen’ scandal pressured late DJ tWitch, says pal Todrick Hall

Todrick Hall says his good friend Stephen “tWitch” Boss — the DJ for the “Ellen Degeneres Show” who died by suicide final month — was beneath a variety of stress due to his boss’s “poisonous office” scandal.

In 2020 Degeneres was anonymously accused of permitting an on-set tradition of “racism, worry and intimidation” by a number of former workers.   The shock information created a wave of on-line criticism — together with some directed at Boss, who stood by the speak present host.

“People had been him like, ‘Why are you continue to supporting this girl’,” the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” choose informed Page Six, “and I believe he was beneath a variety of stress.”

Hall speculated that the digital again lash could have contributed to Boss’s mind-set within the months earlier than his loss of life.

“I don’t know what was occurring in his life which will [have led] him to make that call however I do perceive. Right now once I get on-line some days like proper now, if I used to be within the unsuitable place of the place this abuse would maintain occurring for years and years and years, there’s solely a lot a human being can take.”

“He was simply someone who all the time supported me. He was additionally sort and right down to earth. He came visiting my home a few occasions and we shot TikTok movies collectively,” Hall mentioned of his late pal.

The “So You Think You Can Dance” choose died of a self inflicted gun shot wound and was present in a LA lodge room on December 13. He was 40-years-old.

He grew to become the DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2014 was made an co-executive producer on the present in 2020.

Degeneres introduced in spring 2022 that she was ending her speak present after a run after 19 years, saying that she’d determined earlier than the scandal broke that she could be leaving the present. She filmed her last episode on April 28.

Boss leaves behind his spouse Allison Holker, 34, and two youngsters, Maddox, 6, and Zaia, 3. He had additionally adopted Holker’s daughter Weslie, 14, from a earlier relationship.

DeGeneres mourned the “Magic Mike XXL” star in an Instagram video.

“Everyone is in ache and attempting to make sense of it — we’ll by no means make sense of it. And the vacations are onerous, I believe, anyway, however I believe the very best factor we will do to honor tWitch is to chuckle, and hug one another and to play video games and dance and sing,” she mentioned, “That’s the way in which we honor him … We do the issues he cherished to do.”

Hall’s new actuality present “The Real Friends of WeHo” airs Fridays at 9 on MTV. The sequence additionally stars Dorión Renaud,  Curtis Hamilton, Brad Goreski, Joey Zauzig and James Vaughn.