Grammy-Award winning British singer Duffy resurfaces, claims to have been ‘raped, drugged and held captive’
The disappearance of British singer Duffy from the music world was an ever pertinent question that was asked by pop music fans for the better part of a decade, especially in her native UK. She was one of the brightest pop star on the horizon in the late 2000s and was poised to cement her place in the sun before she succumbed to disappearing from the limelight into oblivion. Now, Duffy has taken to social media to reveal that she rescued herself from her career and the limelight as the result of trauma from being drugged, raped and held captive. She did not offer a time frame as to when these horrific incidents took place but said that details about it would be forthcoming in an interview that will soon be made public.
In the Instagram post she wrote, “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. But I can tell you in the last decade, (after) the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.”
She wrote that she decided to go public after finding one of the many journalists who tried contacting her over the years to be ‘kind’ and hence she told him her full story last summer. She wrote that an audio interview will be coming out in the next few weeks, although she did not clarify whether it is the same one she gave to the journalist.
Duffy won the Best Pop Vocal Award at the 2009 Grammys for her breakthrough album Rockferry and had hits like Mercy. She was also nominated for Best New Artist in 2009. She performed at an Edith Piaf tribute concert in New York in 2013 and appeared in a cameo role in the 2015 British crime film Legend.
