David Bowie’s 2016 loss of life left his spouse Iman feeling uncovered. Nearly seven years later, the mannequin and actress tells Vogue that she nonetheless refuses to explain him as her “late” partner.
The public response was merely “too much,” Iman mentioned. “We lived a very private life and suddenly it felt like there was a target on mine and my daughter’s head. It got to the point where we had to leave our home because the public were always at the front door – which I admire. I get it, but there was a point where it was like, ‘OK, go home now.’
“You had people who would take your picture, sell it and then come to you and say, ‘I feel your pain,’” Iman mentioned, “and I’m like, ‘No, bitch, you don’t feel my pain. Get away from me.’”
The couple married in Switzerland in 1992, earlier than two witnesses and an interpreter. The occasion was so low-key that the media didn’t discover out about it till greater than a week later.
She now insists that “he is not my late husband. He is my husband.” Iman went on to say that she had no drawback with being described as “David Bowie’s wife,” however “I always remind people that I existed before I met him, and he was also very particular. He never introduced me by saying, ‘Meet my wife.’ He’d always say, ‘Meet Iman, my wife.’ So we both already had our own identity. We were separate together.”
Over the years, Iman has constantly rejected the notion of being “strong” about her loss. “I am just trying to keep it together,” she mentioned in 2018. “I do feel very lonely, but do I want a relationship? I can’t say never, but no – not now.”
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