\u201cHer voice was distinctly recognisable and powerful. Songs \u2018Mercy\u2019 and \u2018Warwick Avenue\u2019 from her debut album led to three Brit Awards, a Grammy and Duffy being at the peak of her career. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then she disappeared. This film will give Duffy the chance to tell her story in her own words.\u201d <\/p>\n
Nearly a decade later, in 2020, Duffy published a text on her website where she revealed that in 2010, on her birthday, she\u2019d been drugged in a restaurant.<\/p>\n
She was abducted, taken to a foreign country where she was held captive, abused and raped in an ordeal that lasted four weeks and left her fearing for her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a travelling vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was put into a hotel room and the perpetrator returned and raped me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Grammy-winning singer says the ordeal left her traumatised and she withdrew from public life.<\/p>\n
The events left her at \u201chigh risk of suicide\u201d and completely estranged from her family and everyone else in her life. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the aftermath, I would not see someone, a physical soul, for sometimes weeks and weeks at a time, remaining alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duffy has been in psychological treatment and reportedly credits that work for her ability to now talk about what happened. <\/p>\n