After her parents divorced, her father, Anthony Cox, remarried, to Melinda Kendall. In 1971, her father abducted Kyoko (aged 8) and they followed Melinda Cox into a Doomsday cult called The Walk. Anthony Cox left the group with Kyoko in 1977 and they became fundamentalist Christians. They later helped produce a film documentary exposing the cult. In November 1997, Kyoko re-established contact with her mother, Yoko Ono.
