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An eerie video has surfaced of a former executive producer of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” standing in front of DJ Stephen “tWitch” Boss — who was found Tuesday after he died by suicide — and telling the show’s crew, “Don’t keep in the pain,” as the talk show wrapped last spring.
“Keep each other close, don’t keep in the pain, talk to someone — anyone,” then-EP Andy Lassner is seen urging gathered workers in the haunting clip, posted to Instagram Wednesday by Johanna Fuentes, a former senior communications executive at Warner Bros.
The short video shows Lassner in front of Boss and fellow showrunner Mary Connelly, addressing the cast and crew following the taping of the final episode, which aired in May.
Boss, 40, was found Tuesday by a maid at the Oak Tree Inn in Encino, California, after he missed his checkout. Hotel staffers told TMZ that Boss “didn’t appear to be in any sort of distress and wasn’t visibly upset about anything.”
An autopsy conducted by the Los Angeles Medical Examiner determined that Boss — who had checked into the hotel less than a mile from his home on Monday — died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
In the resurfaced video, Lassner alluded to the heavy toll the end of the long-running show could take on his colleagues.
