Duffy to open about being kidnapped for the first time in new documentary
Welsh singer Duffy is set to open up about her experience of kidnapping and sexual assault, which caused her to recede from the limelight, in a new Disney+ documentary.
The news was shared on March 25th by Disney+’s head of content for EMEA, Angela Jain, in a keynote address at Series Mania.
Jain elaborated that the singer-songwriter had “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.”
In addition, Jain deemed the feature-length Hulu Original doc a “really powerful project.”
Duffy’s 2008 multi-platinum album, Rockferry, and lead single ‘Mercy’ led to global acclaim. However, the star hasn’t released music, nor been active in the limelight, since the release of her second album Endlessly in 2010.
In 2020, the star shocked the nation with a social media post in which she explained the hiatus had stemmed from an incident where she was drugged, kidnapped, and severely sexually assaulted.
“It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks, and travelled to a foreign country,” Duffy shared about the situation on her website.
She had added in the lengthy essay that she feared for her life as the perpetrator had made “veiled confessions of wanting to kill me”.
Now, Duffy is finally ready to share her story through official channels. The streamer has shared of the new project, “Documenting her life in this way for the first time, the documentary will be a retrospective film traversing Duffy’s life, from her upbringing in Wales, through to her meteoric rise to fame and her withdrawal from public life following her unfathomable experience.”
It will include interviews with family, friends, and close peers in the music industry. Duffy is yet to publicly comment on the news of the forthcoming deep dive into her harrowing experience.
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