David Bowie’s daughter recently expressed her disappointment with friends who neglected to reach out on what would have marked the legendary musician’s 79th birthday.

The iconic artist passed away on January 10, 2016, at his New York City residence, which he shared with his wife Iman and their daughter Lexi Jones. His death came shortly after his 69th birthday, following a concealed battle with liver cancer.

Since then, both Iman and Lexi have commemorated Bowie’s birthday with individual tributes on social media, drawing an outpouring of sympathy and support from their followers.

However, Lexi, now 24, criticized her personal acquaintances for failing to acknowledge the significance of the date, which also nears the tenth anniversary of her father’s passing.

In a candid Instagram post featuring a selfie, she expressed gratitude to strangers who offered condolences, while calling out her friends for their silence: “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 further expressed her frustration, saying, “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.’