US EditionDavid Bowie’s Daughter Had Forced Rehab Stay at 14 Amid His Cancer Battle
- In a Feb. 18 Instagram video, Alexandria "Lexi" Zahra Jones recounted being forcibly taken to treatment centers while her father David Bowie was dying, describing it as "dehumanizing."
- Her parents and teachers noticed problems around age 10, and by 12 Jones had developed bulimia and was self-harming; she said Bowie's cancer diagnosis at 14 led her to drugs and alcohol.
- Jones says two well over six-foot-tall men looped a rope around her and forced her into a black SUV while her parents watched; at the wilderness camp, she was strip-searched and issued snow pants and hiking boots.
- While at the program, Bowie died in January 2016 at 69, and Jones says she last spoke with him two days earlier, with her social-media video drawing more than 213,000 views.
- Now Jones says the experience was `dehumanizing` but some therapy helped, and she wants to show how troubled-teen programs make you lose parts of yourself.
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David Bowie's daughter Lexi Jones talks openly for the first time about a traumatic youth – and why she couldn't be there at the death of her father.
When music legend David Bowie died a little over a decade ago, his family announced that he spent his final moments surrounded by his closest friends. Only his daughter Alexandra was missing. Today, she revealed to the public why she was unable to say goodbye to her father.
David Bowie's daughter, Alexandria Jones, nicknamed Lexi, made unexpected statements about a difficult period of her teens. From her Instagram account, she explained that she had been forcibly interned at the age of 14, during the period when her father was ill and died of cancer. A traumatic moment for the young woman now 25 years old.
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