Grammy winning artist Duffy is finally opening up about her lengthy hiatus from music.

“you’re able to only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this.

The way I would write it, how I would feel thereafter.

Duffy

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I cannot explain it,” she began her post.

“Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why.”

He was kind and it felt so amazing to finally speak," she wrote.

Opening up about the recovery process, she wrote, “Of course I survived.

The recovery took time.

There’s no light way to say it.

You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain?

I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes.

I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken?

And slowly it unbroke.”

1 and became the best-selling album of the year in that country.

It sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Her hit single “Mercy” made her the first Welsh woman to hit No.

1 on the U.K. singles chart since 1983.

Duffy followed upRockferrywith 2010’sEndlesslybefore announcing she would take an extended hiatus from music.