- The singer Duffy revealed in February that she had been raped, drugged and kidnapped.
- Duffy hadn't appeared in public for nearly 10 years.
- The Welsh artist wants his story to help others in his case.
Silent for almost a decade, Duffy had returned to public life in February to explain, on Instagram, that she had been raped. Adding that she needed time to tell her ordeal, the Welsh singer revealed everything in a long post published on her new website.
“It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, then I was drugged for four weeks and taken to a foreign country. I do not remember getting on the plane or driving in the back of a car. I was put in a hotel room and the attacker came back to rape me. I remember the pain and try to stay conscious in this room after the fact. I was stuck with him for another day, he was not looking at me, I had to walk behind him, I was somehow conscious and withdrawn. He could have gotten rid of me. I was thinking of fleeing to a nearby town while he was asleep, but I had no money with me and I was afraid that he would call the police to run away, and that he would make me search like no one gone, "she describes.
The fear
After being sequestered in a foreign country, the interpreter of Mercy relates that the aggressor and she returned to the United Kingdom, at home. "The assailant drugged me in my own house for these four weeks, I don't know if he raped me during this time, I just remember driving in a foreign country and returning by plane the days that followed, "she adds. It was someone close to her who found her on her "balcony, staring at the sky, wrapped in a blanket. This person told me that I was yellow and that I looked like a dead man. This person was terrified but did not want to interfere, she had never seen anything like this. "
The Welsh artist explains that she was threatened with death by her attacker, which is why she "did not feel safe going to the police". “When someone threatened to 'take out' my story, I had to tell a policewoman what the person had to know about me and why the blackmail was so scary. A second incident took place when three men tried to break into my home. I told a second police officer about the rape. The rapist's identity should only be known to the police, and it stays between the police and me, ”she also explains.
The time of reconstruction
Duffy explains that she escaped thanks to a psychiatrist when she was "suicidal". "I share this today because we live in a hurtful world and I am no longer ashamed of being hurt. I believe that if you speak with your heart, others will respond to you with their heart. Dark as my story is, I speak from my heart, for my life, and for that of others, who have suffered the same things. I'm not ashamed to say that I spent almost 10 years completely alone, but it burns my heart to write it. I owe it to myself to tell it, I feel compelled to explain how much of a challenge it was to get over it completely and finally tell it. I hope it will give you comfort to feel less ashamed if you feel alone, "she explains.
Rape also took her away from her loved ones. “What happened was not only a betrayal towards me, my life, violence that almost killed me, it also stole a lot of things from other people. (…) Rape is like a waking murder, you are alive, but dead, ”she says.
"It took me so long to speak because after I was raped and held captive, I left. I moved five times in the next three years, never feeling safe. I found where to live, the 5th house, it was not as confined as the others, where I mourned in silence. (…) I felt that he could not find me in the 5th house, I felt safe. I feel safe today, ”says Duffy.
The singer ends on a note full of hope. “This story will be something that I experienced but not what defines me. (…) I don't know what will happen next in my life. I would like to experience being who I really am, for the first time, in private. Feel a peace that I have only half felt so far. (…) I can now leave this decade behind me. Where the past belongs. Now, no more "But what happened to Duffy", now you know ... and I'm free. "
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