According to multiple sources, including the BBC and CNN, singer Duffy was drugged, raped, and held captive for four weeks in a foreign country. She revealed the details of her ordeal in a post on her website, duffywords.com, in April 2020. Duffy did not go to the police because she did not feel safe. She retreated from the spotlight after releasing her second album in 2010 and virtually vanished from the public eye. In her post, Duffy described the deep psychological impact of rape and kidnap, the fear, the hiding, and the difficulties rebuilding relationships. She also revealed that she had been suicidal after the ordeal and had spent almost 10 years completely alone. Duffy thanked her psychologist for helping her through the trauma and hoped that sharing her story would bring her the smile in her eyes and the light in her life that had been absent for so long.