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Welsh vocalist Duffy—who revealed 5 years agone that she had been drugged and raped—shared a video of her singing to her deed opus "Mercy," marking her archetypal nationalist quality successful 10 years.
By Brianna DeJesus-Banos, Lindsay Weinberg Mar 28, 2025 12:15 AM | Updated 1 infinitesimal ago
Duffy Makes First Appearance successful 10 Years After Revealing Abduction Experience
Content warning: This communicative discusses rape.
It's nary longer a distant imagination to spot Duffy.
The Grammy-winning vocalist made her archetypal nationalist quality successful 10 years connected TikTok March 25 to beforehand an e.motion remix of her deed opus "Mercy." The present 40-year-old tin beryllium seen lip-syncing on to her 2008 breakthrough way with the lyrics, "You got maine begging you for mercy," earlier winking astatine the camera.
E.motion wrote successful the caption, "Some of you asked if Duffy was truly doing a UK Garage remix with us…”
The quality comes 5 years aft she archetypal shared details of a past scary acquisition that caused her to retreat from the spotlight.
In February 2020, Duffy (real sanction Aimée Anne Duffy) elaborate successful a since-deleted Instagram post—as good arsenic a consequent written essay—a harrowing ordeal successful which she said she'd been drugged, raped and kidnapped successful a overseas country, wherever she was held hostage implicit a fig of days. She has ne'er named her attacker.
The alleged ordeal caused her to measurement distant from nationalist beingness for 10 years earlier she yet felt acceptable to stock her experience. She wrote astatine the time, "Many of you wonderment what happened to me, wherever did I vanish to and why? The information is, and delight spot maine I americium good and harmless now, I was raped and drugged and held captive implicit immoderate days."
The "Rockferry" creator besides further explained wherefore she'd pressed intermission connected releasing music.
"You wonderment wherefore I did not take to usage my dependable to explicit my pain?" Duffy said. "I did not privation to amusement the satellite the sadness successful my eyes. I asked myself, however tin I sing from the bosom if it is broken? And dilatory it unbroke."
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“Rape stripped maine of my quality rights, to acquisition a beingness with autonomy from fear,” she wrote successful an essay, per People. “It has already stolen one-third of my life. Deep down I bash cognize it would person been a shame and done specified an immense disservice to my beingness to conscionable delete myself and hide what I had experienced successful euphony publicly.”
She's seldom shared updates connected her beingness since then; however, past year, the vocalist returned to societal media to stock her archetypal station successful much than 3 years, featuring an inspirational video astir the root of happiness.
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"One time you're going to spot it, that happiness was ever astir the discovery," a voiceover said successful the clip. "The anticipation the listening to your bosom and pursuing it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was ever astir being kinder to yourself."
The video went on, "One time you volition recognize that happiness was ever astir learning however to unrecorded with yourself, that your happiness was ne'er successful the hands of others. One time you volition recognize that existent happiness comes from within, and nary outer factors tin specify it. It was ever astir you."
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