Duffy to Break Silence on Kidnapping and Assault in New Documentary
Singer Duffy is set to release a documentary detailing her experience of being 'raped and drugged and held captive' in 2011, after years of silence.
After six years of near silence, Duffy is preparing to share more details about the harrowing experience that led to her retreat from public life over 15 years ago. The singer-songwriter will be the subject of an upcoming documentary that confronts the aftermath of the assault and kidnapping she alleges occurred in 2011, an event she first revealed in 2020.
At the French festival Series Mania, Disney+’s head of content for EMEA, Angela Jain, described the documentary as a “really powerful project.” Duffy rose to fame with her hit single “Mercy” from her debut album, Rockferry, in 2008. While another album, Endlessly, followed in 2010, the subsequent years were largely marked by a lack of communication from the singer.
Jain noted that Duffy “[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”. The post, shared on Instagram six years ago, revealed: “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.”
At the time, Duffy did not share many details, but mentioned a forthcoming “spoken interview” after telling her story to a journalist. This interview never materialized, making the upcoming documentary the first comprehensive account of her experiences since her extensive statement on the website DuffyWords in April 2020.
In that statement, Duffy wrote: “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,” she wrote. “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. I felt he could not find me in the 5th house, I felt safe. I feel safe now.”
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