Yahoo Sports Duffy shares harrowing details of rape and kidnapping
Duffy has opened up about a four-week ordeal during which she was kidnapped, raped and taken to a foreign country. The Welsh singer first disclosed news of the incident in February this year.
Her account marks the first time that she's shared harrowing details of what happened to her and why she withdrew from public life. Duffy has since written a lengthy account of her experience at the hands of her perpetrator will "help others who have suffered the same".
"It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country," she wrote. "I can’t remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a travelling vehicle. I was put into a hotel room and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after it happened. I was stuck with him for another day, he didn’t look at me, I was to walk behind him, I was somewhat conscious and withdrawn."
She considered running away while he slept, but feared he would report her as a missing person and she would be found. They flew back to the UK.
"The perpetrator drugged me in my own home in the four weeks, I do not know if he raped me there during that time, I only remember coming round in the car in the foreign country and the escape that would happen by me fleeing in the days following that," she said. "I do not know why I was not drugged overseas; it leads me to think I was given a class A drug and he could not travel with it."
Eventually, she started seeing a psychologist who slowly helped her to recover. The singer could not look at people in the eye and spent her time alone, moving from house to house out of concern that her abuser would hunt her down.
"Ostracization and isolation is known to be a form of torture," she said. "If anyone would have told me I would share my times of isolation, with a nation isolated, I would never have believed them...
"I can now leave this decade behind. Where the past belongs. Hopefully no more 'what happened to Duffy questions', now you know … and I am free."
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