David Bowie's Family 'Devastated' Over Music Icon's Daughter's Treatment Center Abuse Allegations 

David Bowie's daughter has described being forcibly removed from her family home as a teenager and sent to a treatment center – and OK! can reveal her claims have left the music icon's family "devastated."

Saying she was left feeling "stripped of any right to stay in my own life" while her iconic father Bowie was dying of cancer, Alexandria 'Lexi' Jones, 25, made her shocking claims in a video on Instagram.

She explained her family made the decision to send her to a treatment facility amid her struggles with depression and an eating disorder.

When Bowie was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2014, she said she reached "breaking point" and turned to drink and drugs to cope.

Bowie, who had Jones with his model wife man, 70, died in January 2016 at the age of 69, two days after releasing his final album, Blackstar.

Jones said she was 14 when two men "well over six feet tall" arrived to take her to a facility.

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: "Something hit me pretty young before I was around 10. 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."

Jones went on: "I developed bulimia when I was 12. I started self-harming when I was eleven."

She added: "I felt stupid, incompetent, unworthy, useless, unlovable, and having successful parents only made it worse."

Describing the intervention, Jones 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'."

She continued: "Then two men came through the door, and they were both well over six feet tall. They told me I could do this the easy way or the hard way. I chose the hard way. I resisted. I screamed. I held onto the table leg. They grabbed me, they put their hands on me, they pulled me away from everything I knew and I was screaming bloody murder. I felt stripped of any right to stay in my own life."

Jones said she spent 91 days in a "wilderness therapy" program, living outdoors in winter conditions.

She said: "They strip-searched me. They handed me clothes… and a giant a-- backpack that was bigger than me at the time. I had never heard of anything like this before. I didn't know wilderness therapy existed. I was a city girl."

She added: "We dug holes in the ground to be used as bathrooms… and every time we used the bathroom, you had to count out loud so that staff would keep track of us."

After three months, Jones was sent to a residential treatment centre in Utah for 13 months. It was there she said she learned of David's death.

She said: "I had the luxury of speaking to him two days before, on his birthday. I told him I loved him, and he said it back, and we both knew."

Jones added: "Then I saw the post… David Bowie passed away, surrounded by his whole family. It made me physically ill because, yeah, the whole family was there. Except for me."

Jones, whose half-brother is film director Duncan, said she is sharing her story "to make this real so that it's not just a memory I carry in private."

She added: "The mental and emotional manipulation I experienced is something I will not forget. And I won't pretend it didn't happen because that is abuse too."

Following his death in 2016, Bowie left behind a close family consisting of his wife, children and grandchildren. His immediate family are his widow, Iman Abdulmajid, the singer's wife of nearly 24 years, whom he married in 1992.

Along with Jones, he had son Duncan, born in 1971 to David and his first wife, Angela Barnett. He also had stepdaughter Zulekha Haywood, whom Iman had from a previous marriage.

A source said: "Everyone in the family is heartbroken that Lexi felt such pain. But they absolutely reject any suggestion that decisions were made lightly or without love. David and Iman were trying to save their daughter at a time when they believed her life was at risk. To now see it framed as abuse is devastating for them."

The insider continued: "David ended up battling terminal cancer while also worrying desperately about Lexi's health. It was an impossibly dark period. The family's view is that the treatment programme was chosen on professional advice, with the intention of giving her stability and medical support. They never intended for her to feel abandoned."

Our source added: "Iman in particular is deeply saddened. She has always protected her children fiercely and feels pained that Lexi experienced the intervention as traumatic. From the family's perspective, it was an act of last resort driven by fear and love – not punishment. There is also a sense of shock that such private family matters are now playing out publicly. They respect Lexi's right to tell her story, but it has reopened wounds they have spent years trying to heal. The overriding feeling is devastation that she carries this hurt, and also devastation over the danger of David's legacy being tarnished by this."