As her relationship with Lenny Kravitz came to an end (via E! News), Lisa Bonet made the ultimate change when she decided to legally change her name to Lilakoi Moon in 1995, per Biography. According to Time, Bonet started to go by Lilakoi in a “desire for privacy,” while continuing to use her birth name for professional work. Speaking to Vibe in 1999 (via a Lisa Bonet fansite), Bonet expressed where she was mentally at the time of her divorce to Kravtiz, and that she was discovering ways to heal herself — the name change most likely being one of them.
“My heart was blown open from just loving someone so much,” she explained. “It also deepened my desire to heal myself — you know, not wanting to pass on the less-than-positive ‘family heirlooms’ that get passed down.” She added that this desire for healing “accelerated my growth and my desire to be here and to participate in a loving, conscious way on this planet.”
