Duffy Returns To Social Media 4 Years After Alleged Kidnapping, Rape

By Catherine Armecin Martin

Duffy is back on social media.

The Welsh singer, songwriter and actress, whose real name is Aimee Duffy, shared an inspirational animated video on Instagram. The clip talks about the nature of happiness.

"One day, you're going to see it; that happiness was always about the discovery," a voiceover says in the video. "The hope, the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself. It was always about embracing the person you are becoming. One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others."

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The "Mercy" hitmaker accompanied the post with a short caption.

"A little something to motivate the heart. Hope you are all doing well. Lots of love, Duffy," she wrote.

Duffy's last post on the photo-sharing app was in June 2020. Her previous post featured a black-and-white image of her with her song "River in the Sky" playing in the background.

Many fans commented on Duffy's recent post, expressing how much they missed her.

"We miss you Duffy. We love you and hope and wish you are happy, fulfilled and where your heart wants you to be. Where you feel you are your most true form, whatever this may mean nowadays. Stay authentic and truthful to your own compass and only sail to where you are becoming the you you want to be. Sending you lots of positive energy and hugs!" one fan wrote.

"DUFFY, I miss you soo much!! 'Rockferry' stays on REPEAT, sending you love and light," another added.

A third person commented, "Duffy I miss you a lottttt."

"So much love from Wales. We are all behind you, Duffy. One day, I hope to get to celebrate your achievements in a documentary radio or TV with your involvement and permission, but until then, I wish you good health, so much love and happiness," a different user added.

Duffy's post also comes four years after her shocking account about being kidnapped, raped and held captive for weeks. In February 2020, she addressed the speculations about her disappearance after the release of her 2010 album "Endlessly."

"The truth is, and please trust me, I am ok and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days," she revealed in a since-deleted post, Fox News reported. "Of course, I survived. The recovery took time. There's no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine."

The singer didn't name her alleged abuser and abductor but detailed the incident in an essay. According to her, she was drugged at a restaurant on her birthday. The perpetrator allegedly traveled with her to a foreign country.

"I can't remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a traveling vehicle. I was put into a hotel room, and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after it happened," she wrote.

She added that the "perpetrator drugged me in my own home in the four weeks," and someone she knew visited and told her she was "yellow" in color and "was like a dead person." Duffy believed the other person was frightened for her but did not want to interfere because "they had never seen like that."

"Thereafter, it didn't 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. I have told two female police officers, during different threatening incidents in the past decade, it is on record," she continued.

"And as I grieved what 'I must have done to invite this into my life,' I read something that said, 'in the end, it's never between them and you, it's always between them and God.' That helped me a lot in the absence of justice."