By Mark Grey
10:00am PDT, Mar 30, 2024
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4 years after revealing she’d been drugged, raped, kidnapped and brought hostage abroad, Grammy-winning singer Duffy is breaking her silence on social media.
On March 25, the “Mercy” singer shared an inspirational video about happiness from the Instagram account @thephilosophart.
“Just a little one thing to inspire the guts. Hope you might be all doing properly. A lot of love,” the singer wrote alongside the video.
Hold studying to study what the video stated, then revisit the horrifying particulars of Duffy’s kidnapping…
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Within the video from the Instagram account @thephilosophart that Duffy shared on March 25 — her first social media exercise in 4 years — a voice-over says, “You are going to notice it in the future: that happiness was by no means about your job or your diploma or being in a relationship. Happiness was by no means about following within the footsteps of all of those that got here earlier than you. It was by no means about being just like the others. At some point, you are going to see it: that happiness was at all times in regards to the discovery, the hope, the listening to your coronary heart and following it wherever it selected to go.”
“Happiness was at all times about being kinder to your self. It was at all times about embracing the particular person you had been changing into. At some point you’ll perceive that happiness was at all times about studying the right way to dwell with your self, that your happiness was by no means within the arms of others,” the voice-over continues. “At some point you may notice that true happiness comes from inside, and no exterior elements can outline it. It was at all times about you. It was at all times about you.”
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Again in 2020, Welsh singer Duffy revealed on Instagram that she had been drugged, raped and held captive abroad.
“A lot of you marvel what occurred to me, the place did I disappear to and why,” she wrote in a since-deleted submit. “The reality is, and please belief me I’m okay and protected now, I used to be raped and drugged and held captive over some days. In fact I survived.”
“The restoration took time. There is not any mild option to say it. However I can inform you within the final decade, the 1000’s and 1000’s of days I dedicated to desirous to really feel the sunshine in my coronary heart once more, the solar does now shine,” she added.
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A number of months after her preliminary disclosure, Duffy printed an essay detailing what occurred to her.
“It was my birthday, I used to be drugged at a restaurant, I used to be drugged then for 4 weeks and traveled to a overseas nation,” Duffy, then 35, wrote. “I can not keep in mind getting on the airplane and got here spherical at the back of a touring car. I used to be put right into a lodge room and the perpetrator returned and raped me.”
“I keep in mind the ache and attempting to remain acutely aware within the room after it occurred,” she continued. “I used to be caught with him for one more day, he did not have a look at me, I used to be to stroll behind him, I used to be considerably acutely aware and withdrawn. I might have been disposed of by him. I contemplated working away to the neighbouring metropolis or city, as he slept, however had no money and I used to be afraid he would name the police on me, for working away, and perhaps they might monitor me down as a lacking particular person. I have no idea how I had the power to endure these days, I did really feel the presence of one thing that helped me keep alive. I flew again with him, I stayed calm and as regular as somebody might in a state of affairs like that, and once I bought residence, I sat, dazed, like a zombie. I knew my life was in speedy hazard, he made veiled confessions of desirous to kill me. With what little power I had, my intuition was to then run, to run and discover someplace to dwell that he couldn’t discover.”
“The perpetrator drugged me in my own residence within the 4 weeks, I have no idea if he raped me there throughout that point, I solely keep in mind coming spherical within the automotive within the overseas nation and the escape that would occur by me fleeing within the days following that. I have no idea why I used to be not drugged abroad; it leads me to suppose I used to be given a class A drug and he couldn’t journey with it,” she added.
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In early 2020 — after she opened up about her ordeal — Duffy launched the music “One thing Lovely.” Just a few months later, she launched one other music: “River within the Sky.”
Duffy launched her first album, “Rockferry,” in 2008. The album — which featured the worldwide hit single “Mercy” — went on to win the Grammy for finest pop vocal album in 2009.
Duffy launched her sophomore album, “Endlessly,” in 2010. She then took a prolonged hiatus from the music enterprise. She was not often seen in public over the course of the subsequent decade.