The story of the award-winning singer who walked away after kidnapping and rape
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Duffy, 39, returned to social media four years after revealing she was kidnapped, drugged and raped.
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The artist spent ten years away from the spotlight before deciding to share details of her story with the public, in 2020, through Instagram.
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The singer was on the rise in the late 2000s. With her debut album, “Rockferry” (2008), she won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
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In 2010, the artist launched the second project of her career, “Endlessly”, but the work did not achieve the same performance.
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Shortly afterwards, however, Duffy decided to step away from the media. The singer’s “disappearance” led to a series of speculations and lasted around ten years.
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The public hiatus was broken in 2020, when the artist revealed that she was attacked by a man, drugged, raped and held captive for a few days.
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Duffy gave a detailed account of what happened to him through an Instagram post.
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Duffy says she didn’t feel safe going to the police. If it went wrong, she thought, she could be killed by her abuser. She only really opened up to a psychologist.
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She said on her website that she had to move house five times to escape the criminal.
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“I moved five times in the next three years, never feeling safe from the rapist. I was on the run for a long time,” he revealed
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After that, the singer explained that she decided to live in isolation to protect herself.
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“In this place where I would be lonely in the following years, I found my stability to recover, I stopped running away and relocated. I feel safe”, she concluded.
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