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Welsh singer/songwriter Duffy David Corio/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images After six years, Duffy is ready to share more about the harrowing experience that caused her to retreat from the public eye entirely more than 15 years ago. The singer-songwriter will be the subject of a forthcoming documentary that will confront the aftermath of the assault and kidnapping she alleges to have experienced in 2011, which she revealed in 2020.
At the French festival Series Mania, Disney+’s Head of Content for EMEA, Angela Jain, described the documentary film as a “really powerful project. Duffy released her hit single “Mercy” from her debut album Rockferry in 2008. While another album, Endlessly, arrived in 2010, the years that followed were largely absent of communication from the singer.
“[She] disappeared off the face of the earth and hasn’t really spoken about what happened in that time, other than about five or six years ago in a social media post,” Jain said. The post she’s referring to was shared six years ago on Instagram. “The truth is, and please trust me I am ok and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days,” Duffy wrote. “Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it.”
