Overview
- In a video posted this month, the 25-year-old says she was removed from her home at 14 after her father's 2014 cancer diagnosis and escorted to treatment against her will.
- She says she spent 91 days in a wilderness therapy program before more than a year at a residential center in Utah.
- Jones alleges dehumanizing conditions, including a strip-search on arrival, weekly showers, monitored sleep, and staff counting bathroom use, with only limited letter contact allowed.
- She recounts learning of David Bowie’s Jan. 10, 2016 death while in treatment after speaking with him two days earlier, and says public statements about him dying “surrounded by his family” left her feeling excluded.
- People and other outlets report representatives for Iman and Bowie’s estate did not immediately comment on her account as the disclosures refocus attention on the troubled-teen industry.