David Bowie’s daughter, Lexi Jones recently claimed that she was forced to attend a treatment center when she was younger.
In a video shared to her Instagram, 25-year-old Alexandria “Lexi,” who is the daughter of the late singer and his model wife Iman, spoke about her childhood growing up with two famous parents. While she said she was grateful for the opportunities she was given, she also didn’t know if people wanted to be around her for the right reasons.
Throughout the video, Lexi had referenced having to go to “treatment,” and later expanded on how she was struggling with depression, an eating disorder, and substance abuse at 14. She further claimed she was forcibly removed from her family’s house after her dad was diagnosed with liver cancer and it was a time she described as one of the most fragile periods of her life.
In her “first year of high school … everyone around me was experimenting, but for me, it wasn’t about fun,” Jones said. “I wasn’t experimenting. I was escaping – escaping from my complicated mind, my complicated family, my complicated school. When the party ended for everybody else, I kept going and I drank and got high alone.”
Jones went on to describe being sent to rehab in the wilderness after her family sat her down for what felt like “an intervention,” and Bowie read her a letter that she recalled saying, “I’m sorry we have to do this.” After a stint lasting more than 90 days, she moved to a yearlong residential treatment center in Utah. While there, she learned of her father’s passing.
