David Bowie and Iman’s daughter, Alexandra “Lexi” Jones just set the record straight on her relationship with her parents. Just a few days earlier, the 25-year-old took to Instagram to allege that she was forcibly taken from her home at age 14.
But, after Lexi’s story took on a life of its own, she clarified her relationship with David and Iman. She wrote to her 236,000 Instagram followers in a post shared on Friday, February 27: “I’ve seen a lot of interpretations of what I shared, and I want to clarify something important. My story was never meant to place blame on my parents.”
Lexi continued: “I love my parents deeply, and I don’t hold resentment toward them. They were trying to help a child who was struggling in ways none of us fully understood at the time.”
The daughter of famous parents explained she “never shared this to create a narrative of family conflict.” Lexi went on: “What I was trying to talk about was the experience of being a young person inside the teenage treatment system and how it feels while it is happening. Those feelings can exist at the same time as love for the people who were trying to help you. Both things can be true.”
“I’m not asking anyone to speculate about my family or assign fault to anyone in my life,” the 25-year-old added, before continuing: “My intention is conversation and understanding about a system, not judgment of individuals. I spoke about something that shaped me in hopes someone else might feel less alone in theirs.”
© InstagramWhat did Lexi share about her parents David Bowie and Iman?
On Tuesday, February 24, Lexi opened up in a video to Instagram about being forcibly taken from her home to a wilderness therapy program and rehabilitation center due to her struggles with depression, substance abuse and an eating disorder.
She claimed that after her father was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2014, she began spiralling out of control and drinking to excess.
“For me, it wasn’t about fun,” she said in her video. “I wasn’t experimenting, I was escaping. Escaping from my complicated mind, my complicated family, my complicated school. When the party ended for everyone else, I kept going. And I drank and got high alone.”
Lexi said that at the time, two men came into their home to take her away, and after a struggle, they pulled her into a black SUV and drove off.
“I felt stripped of any right to stay in my own life,” she recalled. “By the time the door shut, my parents were already gone.” The musician shared that she spent 91 days in the wilderness therapy program, where she lived outside and learned survival skills, after which she was taken to a treatment center in Utah.
© Kevin MazurLexi stayed in the center for more than a year, and never got to see her dad again, as he died during that time. “I had the luxury of speaking to him two days before, on his birthday,” she shared. “I told him I loved him and he said it back, and we both knew.”
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