Duffy has bravely opened about how she shaved all of her hair off and moved five times following her harrowing rape ordeal.
The Welsh musician, who reached the top 10 with her hit song Mercy, revealed last year that she had been drugged, raped and held captive.
Duffy disappeared from the showbiz scene for years after a string of music successes, until she took to Instagram a few months ago and told her fans she had been gone following the horrific ordeal.
And now Duffy had opened up on how she felt in the aftermath following the rape on her website, duffywords.com
In a post on the website, she wrote about how she would go days without seeing a single soul.
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Duffy wrote: “In the aftermath I would not see someone, a physical soul, for sometimes weeks and weeks and weeks at a time, remaining alone.
“I would take off my pyjamas and throw them in the fire and put on another set. My hair would get so knotted from not brushing it, as I grieved, I cut it all off.”
She continued: “It took so long for me to speak because after I was raped and held captive, I fled. I moved five times in the immediate three years after, never feeling safe from the rapist, I was on the run for so long.
“I found somewhere to live, the 5th house, it was not as confined as the other houses, where I grieved silently, in townhouses or apartments.
“This place I would spend solitary years to find the stability to recover, I had stopped running and relocating.
Duffy disappeared from the showbiz scene for 10 years (Image: EMPICS Entertainment/PA Photos)
“I felt he could not find me in the 5th house, I felt safe. I feel safe now.
“When the ordeal happened, it destabilised me so severely, it took years and years, around 90,000 hours.
“I sometimes didn’t know how I could make it through, it was hard and almost impossible. But I got here, as will you. Hallelujah.”
Last year Duffy, who kept it a “dark secret” for 10 years, spoke of how she was left fearing for her life after she abducted on her birthday and taken captive in a foreign country.
In the original post, she shared on her Instagram: “You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this. The way I would write it, how I would feel thereafter.
Duffy rose to fame with her hit song Mercy (Image: PA)
“Well, not entirely sure why now is the right time, and what it is that feels exciting and liberating for me to talk. I cannot explain it. Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why.
“A journalist contacted me, he found a way to reach me and I told him everything this past summer. He was kind and it felt so amazing to finally speak.
“The truth is, and please trust me I am ok and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived.
“The recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
