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Duffy Reemerges After Years of Silence to Say She Was ‘Raped and
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horrible things Feb. 25,
2020
DUFFY REEMERGES AFTER YEARS OF SILENCE TO SAY SHE WAS ‘RAPED,
DRUGGED, AND HELD CAPTIVE’
By Devon Ivie @devonsaysrelax
The singer found overseas success in 2008 with her hit “Mercy”
then mysteriously faded from the spotlight. Photo: Florian
Seefried/Getty Images
More than a decade after her last album and many years of completely
retreating from the public eye, Welsh singer-songwriter Duffy
revealed on social media on Tuesday the horrendous circumstances that
lead to her anonymity in the 2010s: She was the victim of an
abduction. “Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I
disappear to and why,” she wrote on Instagram. “A journalist
contacted me, he found a way to reach me and I told him everything
this past summer. He was kind and it felt so amazing to finally speak.
The truth is, and please trust me I am ok and safe now, I was raped
and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The
recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it.” While Duffy
didn’t specify when or where the abduction occurred, or if her
captor was found, she said it’s “exciting and liberating” for
her to now be able to discuss this terrifying experience:
> But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands
> of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart
> again, the sun does now shine. You wonder why I did not choose to
> use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world
> the sadness in my eyes. I asked myself, how can I sing from the
> heart if it is broken? And slowly it unbroke. In the following weeks
> I will be posting a spoken interview. If you have any questions I
> would like to answer them, in the spoken interview, if I can. I have
> a sacred love and sincere appreciation for your kindness over the
> years. You have been friends. I want to thank you for that.
Duffy catapulted into the music industry in 2008 with her debut album
_Rockferry, _which featured the sultry international bop “Mercy
” — drawing quick
comparisons to her fellow soul-pop contemporaries Amy Winehouse and
Adele. Her 2010 follow-up album, _Endlessly, _spurred no hits and
failed to achieve the same level of _Rockferry_’s critical success.
In the ensuing decade, Duffy would resurface very rarely, with her
most notable work being a supporting role in the 2015 crime thriller
_Legend._
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