Duffy found success in the late 2000s and stayed out of the spotlight for nearly a decade
Summary
Welsh singer Duffy, who blew up around the world with her album Rockferry in the late 2000s, resurfaced in 2020 to reveal to her fans that she had been kidnapped and raped. She is now back on social media to motivate fans and convey a message about her happiness.
If you lived through the late 2000s, you probably remember Welsh singer Duffy, who toured the world with her album Rockferry and won a Grammy for best pop vocal album. The composer had disappeared from the media for ten years and reappeared in 2020, when she revealed to her fans that she had been kidnapped, drugged and raped.
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After the complaint, the 39-year-old artist disappeared again and only returned to social media on Tuesday 26th. She shared a video with an excerpt from the book The strength in our scars (“The strength of our scars”, in free translation), by the writer Bianca Sparacino, in which she talks about happiness.
“Something to lift the hearts. Hope you’re all doing well. Much love, Duffy,” she wrote in the caption.
In addition to Rockferry, from 2008, he also released the album Endfully in 2010. Owner of the hits Mercy AND Syrup and honeythe singer announced the suspension of her career in 2011, and also tried a return to artistic life in 2015, when she played Timi Yuro, in the film Crime legends. The work also featured three of her songs on the soundtrack.
Between 2011 and 2020, several rumors surfaced about Duffy’s disappearance. During the pandemic, when the world was isolated, the singer decided to share an open letter to her fans about the real reason for her disappearance: she had been drugged, kidnapped and raped. The author’s identity was not revealed.
“It was my birthday, I was drugged in a restaurant, I was drugged for four weeks and I traveled to a foreign country. I don’t remember getting on a plane and getting into the back of a traveling vehicle. I was put inside a hotel room and the attacker raped me. I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after what happened,” he says in the statement.
The singer says she felt insecure for a long time and tried to hide the fact, but this ended up making her ill. The first person to find out was a psychologist, months after the accident. “I have no idea how I was lucky enough to find her so many years ago. Without her, I might not have survived,” he says.
Duffy remained isolated for a long time, even away from the presence of family and friends, who tried to help her. She moved several times, until she arrived at the place she calls “House 5”. This was where she felt the attacker would never be able to find her again.
“It’s just that I haven’t been the same person for so long. Rape is like a living murder, you’re alive but dead. All I can say is that it took a long time, sometimes seeming forever, to heal my broken pieces. .”, he underlined.
In the letter, dated April 5, 2020, the artist talks about the isolation he experienced and took advantage of it to motivate his fans to continue.
“Isolation is a small price to pay to save lives, so we must be strong. This requires all of us, as one, to act for each other; awareness has never been more vital than it is now If you are reading this and If you are sad, my encouragement is that… to know pain, you must first know how to love. Only the absence of love causes pain. So, go find it. Seek love in every thing, even in a cup of wine. tea,” he stressed, before demanding that no more questions be asked about “what happened to Duffy”.
Source: Terra
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