Little was known until now about Alexandria "Lexi" Jones, the daughter that David Bowie had with Iman (70). This Thursday, the 25-year-old young woman revealed in a video on her social media how she was interned in different centers to recover from her addictions at a very young age, which prevented her from being with her father when he was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2014, from which he would die two years later. In an emotional video, Lexi explained that her family decided to admit her to a center to overcome the depression and eating disorder that she had been suffering from since she was a child.
In a video posted on Instagram, Lexi explained that her family decided to admit her to a center to overcome the depression and theeating disorder she was suffering from. She recounted that in 2014, when her father was diagnosed with liver cancer, she hit "rock bottom" and turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with the situation. She also recalled that, at just 14 years old, two men "over six feet tall" showed up at her house to take her to a treatment center. She also remembered that before they took her, her father (already very ill) gave her a letter in which he apologized for the drastic decision they had made.
Based on the video, it seems evident that it must not have been easy growing up in the shadow of a music legend and a supermodel. "Before I turned 10, I started seeing a therapist because my teachers noticed that something was wrong, and so did my parents. That's when I had my first anxiety attack. I started feeling depressed. I was failing in school. I had learning difficulties, which made everything harder, and I hated my appearance. I developed bulimia at 12 years old. I started self-harming at 11. I felt stupid, incompetent, unworthy, useless, impossible to love, and having such important parents only made it worse. I felt I would never measure up to them. I couldn't understand how I could have been born to people who were doing so well in everything while I was failing at everything."
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After her father's diagnosis and her turning to alcohol and drugs to cope with it, she added: "I wasn't experimenting, I was escaping. When the party ended for others, I continued: I drank and did drugs alone. I became someone who lashed out at others." She then began a pilgrimage through different treatment centers of which she does not have good memories.
The ordeal ended, but the young woman confesses that addiction is a constant struggle. In 2025, she released an album in which she composed, produced, and performed all the songs.
Lexi has a stepbrother, Duncan, from the relationship of the singer with Angie Barnett, who is a film director.