It doesn’t sound like Madonna is a toxic mother... it just sounds like she’s uber strict and that doesn’t fly with Rocco the way she’d like. By all reports her other kids, including her teenage daughter who is currently away at college, are doing quite well and are not getting themselves into stupid things and all…

My alma mater posted a picture of David at Duncan’s graduation. I loved their caption:

I don’t even understand how two people can be so beatiful and how much they obviously care for each other just adds to it. A couple of years ago I saw them on a red carpet, someone else was being interviewed and they just swept by in the background. Even the way he held her hand was memorizing. I watched the moment…

She walked out on him and her son. Regular parents don't forfeit all contact or any semblance of a relationship so willingly or without a fight if they actually give a shit.

13 from what I’ve read. I would lose my mind if I had no contact with my teenage son so nope! I don’t believe her.

Please read Starman by Paul Trynka, the best Bowie bio. Angela is toxic.

So true. This photo ran as part of a post in Hollywood Reporter today; it was taken by the photographer Terry O’Neill, and here’s what he had to say about it:

Congratulations for buying her side hook, line and sinker. Another side might be that she was a drug addict and opportunist who saw a meal ticket, clung on and never let go. Who gives up her own kid? Honestly. And she’s just making other stuff up out of thin air — “Angie” is about her? Give me a break. Anyone who…

Yes, agreed. And, in all the photographs, David Bowie himself seemed to have evolved from a London wild child to someone much more grounded in himself, calm, and at ease in his own skin with Iman. She is so regal, beautiful and loving; and I think this had a profound effect on his artistry as well.

Iman’s head is a loftier, deeper place: all Spirit, and all Love. Her name means faith, and she regally walks this earth with ease and grace.

Iman and Bowie were such an insanely beautiful couple. And such incredible proof that love exists in all forms. Can you think of two people who seemed more different from one another? And yet from all accounts they had a very happy life together, and loved each other very much. My mind keeps drifting to thoughts of…

He cut off contact with the mother around age 13-14 and in one interview said that his mother never had an influence on his life even while she was married to his father. Although Angie-David divorce happened in 1980, she left him and Duncan around 1975. Even before, when he was born due to depression, she left him…

I read he would see her occasionally growing up (for holidays, vacations, etc), but decided to cut off all contact with her when he was 16. He described her as a “very toxic person” (take heed, Madonna)

My heart breaks for Iman (this photo also from their wedding day), that she might have any exposure to this awful woman saying anything and everything to gain attention in the wake of his death. It’s really despicable.

And to say that to the press and write about it in books is pretty harsh, regardless of where the kid wanted to go. Sounds like it confirms his decision.

I’ve seen this behavior in my own life, with my brother’s biological father. He tried to drown my mom when he found out she was pregnant, despite them trying to have a kid. She went into hiding while trying to finalize the divorce. His new wife would always pick up my brother for visitation, never him, and that’s when…

That was taken at his wedding to Iman. Neither of those smiles looks forced for the camera.

Maybe around this time? So adorable.

Things I can never imagine saying about my child:

So if I do the math right, she hasn’t spoken to her son since he was 16? That’s a little more than not wanting to “take him away from his father.”