Duffy

[Thetruth123]

Well to me this just proves celebs can keep their private lives private!!!!! I’m (speculating ) and hoping that the perpetrators have been brought to justice , if this is the case then it does show if you keep yourself to yourself and don’t invite trolls, the media and general public Into your life by throwing the line then reeling them in .....anything is possible!!

 

[PineappleQueen19]

I wonder if she is ready to put out new music but knows it will be difficult with so many questions hanging over her. This way she is able to tell her story on her terms and draw a line under it of sorts.

 

[UsernameBlank]

I somehow just learned the story about Duffy’s abduction and rape. Now I’m completely intrigued. So she went out for dinner for her birthday, was drugged, flown abroad and kept in a hotel where she was raped for several weeks. I have so many questions….
Unless she went out for dinner with her actual passport, the abductor had access to her passport, how did she get out the country? If say it was a private jet do you need a passport?
Where did her family, friends or management team think she was for weeks on end? Did nobody report her missing?

 

[freda19]

Oh my word. Poor girl. One sexual assault is hard enough to deal with but hers was compounded and multiplied.
I just hope she's had legal closure as well as healing her heart.

 

[Itsjustwhatithink!]

She was amazing, I think her album is my favourite from a female artist.

 

[PoleStar]

I read Duffy's full statement and I agree that it is bizarre. Like others I wonder how it would be possible to get someone onto a plane if they were drugged without anyone noticing - not only airport staff but other passengers too, especially as she was very recognisable at the time because her face was everywhere due to the videos for her songs and the Coke advert she'd done. I asked my husband to read her statement in his professional capacity as a criminal intelligence analyst and he agrees. He believes she was probably dabbling with drugs, willingly went off with someone on a private plane and got in too deep, ending up in the rape. The sort of person I'm thinking could be the perpetrator is a powerful industry bigwig, someone along the lines of Harvey Weinstein.

 

[TeaPotTattoo]

There is obviously information she is holding back but that doesn’t make what she has shared to be implausible or unbelievable.

Agree with this! There's an awful lot that she hasn't told us, for whatever reason. She also doesn't come across as a reliable narrator but that looks very much like trauma to me.

I don't now what happened to this poor woman, but undoubtedly *something* did, and something really bad. I wish she had PR handling this for her because she's obviously fragile and she's too exposed.

 

[bubbletea123]

Could have been a private jet- maybe an Arab guy, which supports the fact she mentioned ‘walking behind him’ . Saudi maybe? Rape is a funny subject there? Who knows, so very traumatic though poor love

I think more likely Dubai or somewhere in the UAE if of that ethnicity. Saudi is really hard for people to get into without the correct visa.

 

[Instamoron]

Oh my word. Poor girl. One sexual assault is hard enough to deal with but hers was compounded and multiplied.
I just hope she's had legal closure as well as healing her heart.

100% agreed. I definitely hope whoever did this to her has been suitably punished and she really is ok now - or as “ok” as somebody can be after something so awful.
What a brave woman for speaking out!

 

[Sven]

Definitely somebody rich. Probably with a private jet. What an awful thing to go through !

 

[bah bah]

Truth is stranger than fiction..

 

[Yel]

Horrific, I'm not sure I even want to watch the interview when it comes out.

I thought she just retired after that coke advert and the comeback single didn't perform. I don't think she liked the entertainment industry, she hated that Welsh pop idol that aled from radio 1 was a judge on.

I hope there's some positivity out of it all and she's well on her way to recovery

 

[Tangerine Dream]

It kind of bothers me the way she is drip feeding this story. Sorry, I have to say it.

I don't disbelieve that something really horrible happened to her and she's had a shitton of trauma because of it but I'm getting a whiff of using it to sell her comeback and it's a bit suss to me when people do that kind of thing, especially when it appears to be there are big chunks of the story they aren't including so stuff doesn't quite join together but we're demanded to accept without question.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

She’s back on social media. Great to see all the love and support for her in the comments

 

[Intriguedfromafar]

This was on AGC blinds yeaaaars ago! Horrific story. Always wondered whether it would come out.

 

[Lolly505]

I read her statement fairly quickly but I got the impression that she had informed the police a few times? She said at one point the name of the perpetrator will stay between her and the police? Unless I'm really misreading here does that mean it has been investigated?

I think she mentioned that she spoke of it twice to police officers but I don't think it was in an official capacity/on the record statement (but I might be misremembering).

EDIT: Just had another look and she said she mentioned it when reporting other incidents (blackmail and a break in) but it doesn't seem to have been its own case.
Others may disagree but I can understand why not, since sexual assault cases are notoriously difficult to convict (especially after time has passed) and trials, etc, can be traumatic experiences in themselves. Even reporting is no guarantee that something will be done, unfortunately.

 

[Dotty Merton]

She's been the main story of the Mail today. Has a documentary coming on Disney+ and is starting to do live performances again (understandably to just small audiences for now).

Is it me or is there an undercurrent of skepticism in the way the kidnap/rape is written about? Not that I give it importance, gutter press are gonna gutter press but it's a vibe I feel is there.

Maybe the documentary will make Duffy's story clearer. I just wish her well.

I've just read it too. Theres a sweet pic pf her in a welsh cafe. I am looking forward to hearing her new music. She doesn't owe anyone any more of an explanation and says that the name of the kidnapper is between her and the police.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Chloe Alyling. I think with her specifically it was just weird how she tried so hard to become famous off the back of being a kidnap victim and that's why so many didn't and still don't believe her, although recently she disclosed an autism diagnosis so that makes much more sense of things imho.

That’s her. She absolutely didn‘t “behave like a victim” but she got the wrong end of the stick, she wanted to be famous or be an influencer so she was posing and preening when she was invited on telly, as she said the kidnapping was in the past by then. The autism makes sense there as well.

just seems like 3 women who all didn't tell their story the way people expect and then they were on trial. Seems to me that trauma makes them act quite similarly and it’s not at all suspicious. I suppose it depends what you know of trauma.

 

[HotesTilaire]

I always thought that her original explanation sounded so odd because she was traumatised and for whatever reason didn't want to give very full details. Which is fair enough.
I feel like there might have been a rumour about it being a manager or record company type?
To be fair the way she told her story puts me in mind of Michaela Coel who was drugged and grasped, and that young girl who was a model who was lured abroad and drugged for weeks by the fake photographer.

 

[Redblueyellow8]

Wow! what a brave lady to come out and share this