Singer reveals detailed account of her rape and kidnap torment
DUFFY HAS shared a harrowing account of being raped, drugged and held captive for weeks – and said she was telling her “dark” story to help “others who have suffered the same”.
Posting on her Instagram page, the singer, 35, said that she was drugged at a restaurant on her birthday and was then held captive in her own home and taken to a foreign country.
In a long post written on a web page that she shared a link, Duffy added: “I hope it comforts you to feel less ashamed if you feel alone.”
The Welsh singer, whose full name is Aimee Duffy, first revealed her ordeal in an Instagram post in February, and revealed more details of being kidnapped on her webpage.
She said: “It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country.
“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“I was stuck with him for another day, he didn’t look at me, I was to walk behind him, I was somewhat conscious and withdrawn.
“I could have been disposed of by him.”
She added that she does not know how she had “the strength to endure those days”, and claimed the perpetrator made “veiled confessions of wanting to kill me”.
Duffy said that she escaped by “fleeing”, but did not provide an account of how she got away, adding she “cannot remember getting home”.
She said that she initially feared going to the police, but eventually told a female officer what had happened after someone had threatened to “out her story”.
Duffy added that she was at “high risk of suicide” following the ordeal and has spent “almost 10 years completely alone”.