Bowies Daughter Claims Abusive Treatment Center Experience

's daughter has revealed the harrowing details of being forcibly removed from her family home and sent to multiple treatment centres, forcing her to be away from her father as he lost his battle with . 

Alexandria 'Lexi' Jones, 25, shared the heartbreaking account in a video posted on Instagram on Thursday, explaining how she had struggled with the pressures of growing up in the spotlight and battled and an eating disorder.

Then when her father was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2014, Lexi said she hit 'breaking point' and turned to drink and drugs to cope. The music legend died January 2016 aged 69,  just two days after he released his final album Blackstar.

Lexi, whose mother is supermodel Iman, 70, described how she was just 14 when two men 'well over six feet tall' came to take her to a treatment facility. 

She also recalled her father writing her a heartfelt letter when revealing the decision to send her to the facility, which read: 'I'm sorry we have to do this'.

Looking back on her childhood she said: 'Adults would talk to me differently than they would talk to other kids. Some were not interested in me as a person at all, and only as a proximity to something else.'

She added that she felt like she 'existed as an idea' rather than a real person, with constant projections and expectations from others.

She continued: 'Something hit me pretty young before I was around ten. I started seeing a therapist because my teachers noticed something was off, and so did my parents. That was around the time I had my first anxiety attack.

'I started to feel depressed. I was failing school. I had learning disabilities, that made everything feel harder, and I hated the way I looked. I developed bulimia when I was 12. I started self-harming when I was eleven. 

'I felt stupid, incompetent, unworthy, useless, unloveable, and having successful parents only made it worse. It felt like I would never live up to them. I couldn't understand how I came from people that were thriving in every single direction while I was failing at everything.'

Following her father's diagnosis and turning to drink and drugs to cope, she said:  'Everyone around me was experimenting. But for me, it wasn't about fun. I wasn't experimenting, I was escaping,

'When the party ended for everybody else, I kept going, and I drank and got high alone. I became someone who lashed out. I was cruel to people who didn't treat me the way I wanted to be treated. I was begging to be respected by becoming something people feared, or at least noticed.'

Eventually, she said, an intervention occured that was both unexpected and deeply traumatising. 

She said: 'My dad read a letter he had written. I don't really remember what it said, but I do remember the last line and it said, "I'm sorry we have to do this."