Ellen DeGeneres Rwanda campus plants tree in honor of late Stephen 'tWitch' Boss after his suicide
dailymail.co.ukThe Rwandan conservation campus for gorillas that bears the name of Ellen DeGeneres has planted a tree in memory of Stephen 'Twitch' Boss, who died via suicide at the age of 40 in December.'As we celebrated the one year anniversary of our Ellen Campus this past week, we took a moment to recognize a very special person who left us too soon,' a statement on the Instagram account of the Ellen Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund read Monday.The statement continued: 'tWitch brought light to so many and was a wonderful friend to @ellendegeneres.
In his honor we planted this tree so he will be forever remembered on the campus.'A silver plaque at the display read: 'In memory of Stephen "Twitch" Boss and the light he brought to the world.
Planted February 2023.'DeGeneres, 65, began working with Boss in 2014, as he was a guest DJ on her talk show, eventually working his way up to co-executive producer by 2020.DeGeneres wept in a video she uploaded to Instagram in the wake of Boss' passing, as she said 'we'll never make sense of' the death of the beloved entertainer. 'Everyone is in pain,' she said. 'The holidays are hard, I think, anyway, but to honor tWitch I think the best thing that we can do is to laugh, hug each other, play games and dance and sing.'The TV personality continued: 'That's the way we honor him, is we do the things that he loved to do, which is dancing.
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