In the years since the attack, she’s focused on recovery and has stayed away from the limelight.
“I could have been disposed of by him,” she continued.
I do not know how I had the strength to endure those days."
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Finally, Duffy was able to flee.
I cannot remember getting home."
Initially, the singer wrote she was too afraid to report the crime.
It didnt feel safe to go to the police.
I felt if anything went wrong, I would be dead, and he would have killed me.
I could not risk being mishandled or it being all over the news during my danger.
I really had to follow what instincts I had.
“Rape stripped me of my human rights, to experience a life with autonomy from fear.
It has already stolen one-third of my life.
In 2008, Duffy rose to prominence with her debut albumRockferry.It entered the U.K. album charts at No.
1 and became the best-selling album of the year in the country.
It sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Her single Mercy made her the first Welsh woman to hit No.
1 on the U.K. singles chart since 1983.
Duffy followed upRockferrywith 2010sEndlesslybefore announcing she would take an extended break from music.
But it’s not what this is directly about.
I’m doing this to be freed, for all of me to be freed.
What follows remains to be seen.”
She ended the essay saying, “I can now leave this decade behind.
Where the past belongs.
Hopefully no more ‘what happened to Duffy questions,’ now you know … and I am free.”
