Eerie video reveals 'Ellen' producer Andy Lassner's CHILLING advice to Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss and staff
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: In a chilling video, a former executive producer of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' can be heard counselling the crew of the talk show by saying, "Don't keep in the pain," as the show was coming to an end last spring. The producer is seen standing in front of DJ Stephen 'tWitch' Boss who was found dead on Tuesday, December 13.
"Keep each other close, don’t keep in the pain, talk to someone — anyone," the then EP Andy Lassner can be seen in the video, urging the assembled staff to take care of themselves. The video was uploaded to Instagram on Wednesday by Johanna Fuentes, a former senior communications executive at Warner Bros.,
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Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, was found dead from a gunshot wound in Oak Tree Motel in LA, which is a 15-minute walk from his home at about 11.15 am Tuesday, December 13. The DJ on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' died by suicide. The 40-year-old DJ celebrated his wedding anniversary with his wife Allison Holker, 34, three days before killing himself. Hotel staffers said to TMZ that Boss "didn’t appear to be in any sort of distress and wasn’t visibly upset about anything." The Los Angeles Medical Examiner's autopsy revealed that Boss, who checked into the hotel on Monday, December 12, had shot himself in the head the next day.
In the unearthed footage, Lassner hinted at the huge impact the end of the long-running show would have on the show's staff. In the now-heartbreaking clip, Lassner added, "It is a life change and we're all going through it," during the star-studded, "emotional" series finale. DeGeneres' talk show was dogged by claims of a "toxic" workplace for years, and the host dealt with several accusations of unfavorable workplace behavior for which she later apologized, New York Post reports. Lassner continued in the film, saying that the group "went through it together" and "should be proud" of the work created on the show over its 19-year run. "It's OK to be sad and to reach out to each other because nobody knows this exact experience other than the people who work here," he added.
Fuentes described Boss as "an immense talent who brought joy to every room he walked into" and said she was "devastated" by his departure in the caption she wrote for the video. She also reiterated Lassner's remarks, saying, "Let's keep close. As Andy said it best as the show wrapped - let’s keep each other close. Don’t keep in the pain, talk to someone. Anyone."