Allison Holker Boss Opens Up About a Time She 'Was Taken Advantage of’: ‘I Felt So Much Shame In Who I Was’
Published on January 28, 2025
Allison Holker Boss is opening up for the first time about a traumatic time in her past.
Ahead of the release of her memoir This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, the So You Think You Can Dance? alum, 36, sat down for an all-new, soul-baring interview with The Jamie Kern Lima Show.
“I wanted to ask you, in your book, you talk about at the age of 17, you experienced something you say was so traumatizing, that it touched every part of your life,” host Jamie Kern Lima said to her guest.
“I had experienced my first time really feeling like I'd been taken advantage of,” Holker Boss explained.
She hinted that the alleged abuse came from within the “dance community,” seemingly feeling as though her “joy of life” and “energy of wanting to constantly learn” put her in a compromising position.
“I had some, some, you know, older man really take advantage of the vulnerability that women go through, especially in the dance community,” Holker Boss said. “Where we look up to our teachers and we just trust them, and dance can be very physical. It can be very sexual, even at a young age.”
“It tore me apart for a lot of years,” Holker Boss said, thinking she was the one to blame.
“I felt like it was my fault because how could it have gotten to that place? I must have done something wrong and I felt so much shame in who I was,” she told Kern Lima, 47.