The daughter of late pop pioneer David Bowie has publicly attacked her friends for failing to text her on what would have been his 79th birthday.
Bowie passed away at the New York City home he shared with wife Iman and their daughter Lexi Jones on January 10 2016 following a previously undisclosed battle with liver cancer, just two days after turning 69.
Both have since paid separate tributes to the enigmatic star on his birthday, with their respective social media posts prompting a wave of sympathetic responses from followers.
But Lexi, 24, has since attacked those who know her personally for overlooking the occasion and its proximity to the tenth anniversary of her father’s death.
Sharing a selfie with Instagram followers, she wrote: ‘Thank you to all the people I don’t know who wished me condolences, and f**k you to all of my friends who never texted me at all.’
She added: ‘I got 1 text! F**k all y’all.’
The daughter of late pop pioneer David Bowie has publicly attacked her friends for failing to text her on what would have been his 79th birthday.
Lexi, real name Alexandria Zahra Jones, had previously shared a poignant throwback snap with her father, with the caption: ‘Da big 79 today. Happy birthday pops, miss ya!’
Lexi, real name Alexandria Zahra Jones, had previously shared a poignant throwback snap with her father, with the caption: ‘Da big 79 today. Happy birthday pops, miss ya!’
The post was shared just months after Lexi revealed she has been diagnosed with autism, after a ‘long and exhausting journey’ and years of struggling to fit in.
The daughter of the late musical legend took to Instagram in August to discuss the ‘validating’ diagnosis and how she’d spent her whole life trying to pretend to be ‘normal’.
Lexi explained she’d spent thousands of dollars seeking professional help, before finally getting a formal diagnosis from an autism and ADHD specialist.
The artist first announced her diagnosis in June, admitting that learning she was autistic gave her ‘clarity and relief’, after spending years hiding it without realising, leaving her drained and alienated.
She took to her Instagram to write: ‘Autism does not have one look, one voice, or one way of showing up. It comes in many forms, and a lot of us learn to hide it without even realizing we are doing it.
‘I was recently diagnosed as autistic, and it finally made sense of so much I have carried quietly my whole life.
‘It is very common for women and people socialized as female to be diagnosed later in life. We are often conditioned to mask, mirror, and internalize. That does not make it any less real.
Lexi’s mother Iman also wished her late husband a ‘happy heavenly birthday’ on Thursday, ten years after his death (pictured together in 2009)
The supermodel, 70, who was married to the singer from 1992 up until his death, said his light still ‘burns bright’ (pictured in 2006)
Lexi previously revealed she has been diagnosed with autism, after a ‘long and exhausting journey’ and years of struggling to fit in
Lexi is Bowie’s only child with supermodel Iman (she is pictured with David as an infant)
‘This diagnosis does not change who I am, but it gives me language, clarity, and relief. I am sharing this because I know I am not the only one, and because stories like this deserve to be seen.’
Alongside, she posted a deeply personal essay entitled, The Quiet Effort: Neurodivergence through my lens, where she candidly opened up on how she’d ‘spent my whole life feeling like I was different’.
Lexi recalled growing up feeling ‘isolated’ and spent years mirroring those around her and ‘masking’ – referring to the conscious or unconscious effort by individuals to hide or suppress their natural autistic traits and behaviours to appear more neurotypical.
She wrote: ‘I never really felt like I belonged anywhere, and it ultimately left me exhausted from masking’.
Lexi also confessed she had become good at ‘blending in’ but that it never came naturally to her and was something she had to work hard at ‘consciously constructing’.
She wrote: ‘It feels more like a performance I have built over time, not a reflection of how I truly think, feel, or function.’
She explained how she would get overwhelmed and ‘shut down or lash out’, while describing her lack of sense of self as a ‘sense of pain’ that ‘chips away at my confidence and sense of worth.’
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