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Iman 'holding up' after Bowie's death

Los Angeles - Iman is "holding up" after David Bowie's death on Sunday following a secret 18-month battle with cancer.

The 60-year-old model married the Starman singer in 1992 before welcoming daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones, 15, together in 2000 and Iman's close friend Bethann Hardison revealed the family are coping.

She told PEOPLE: "She's fine. We're fine. We're holding up. It comes in waves, you know. He's a great loss - not just a loss as an artist, but as a human."

While David's family have not gone into detail about his illness, director Ivo van Hove, who he worked with on his stage show Lazarus, claimed he died from liver cancer.

He said: "I have known for about a year. We began collaborating on our show, Lazarus, and at some point he took me to one side to say that he wouldn't always be able to be there due to his illness. He told me he had cancer, liver cancer.

"The cast didn't know all that time, and I suspect that the musicians with whom he recorded Blackstar didn't know either. He made every effort to complete those two projects on time, not to let his illness win."

Desperate not to disappoint his fans despite his poor health, the musician attended the December premiere of his musical in New York but "collapsed from exhaustion" behind the scenes.

Ivo added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: "It was written that he looked so well, so healthy. But behind the podium he collapsed from exhaustion. It was then that I knew that it may be the last time I would see him."

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