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The Welsh singer shared her story on her official website explaining why she disappeared from public view after her 2010 album 'Endlessly' and hoped that she could help "others whom have suffered the same."

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00:00Welsh singer Duffy is opening up for the first time about the horrifying details around her

00:04abduction.

00:06Early last month, the singer, who was behind hits such as Mercy, Well Well Well and Rain

00:10On Your Parade, posted to her Instagram giving her fans insight into the distressing reason

00:15behind her sudden withdrawal from the spotlight after releasing her second album endlessly

00:19in 2010 and promising a more detailed interview to come.

00:23And now, in a lengthy post on her official website, the singer for the first time shared

00:27the details of her traumatic abduction and rape ordeal that led to her disappearance from

00:31public view.

00:32In the post that was linked to her Instagram, the Grammy-winning artist wrote about how she

00:36was drugged on her birthday and then for four weeks at her home before she was taken to a

00:40foreign country and raped.

00:42The singer was able to escape the ordeal by fleeing, but the details on how remain hazy

00:47as she, quote, cannot remember getting home.

00:49She wrote,

00:57She continued, saying that she contemplated running away, but was afraid her attacker would

01:03call the police and that he had made a confession of wanting to kill her, adding,

01:07The 35-year-old singer, whose full name is Amy Duffy, thanked her psychologist for helping

01:17her deal with the trauma, but also wrote that the rape had, quote, stripped me of my human

01:21rights to experience a life with autonomy from fear, and that it has already stolen one-third

01:26of my life.

01:27Duffy, who released a new song last month for the first time in years, called Something

01:31Beautiful, hoped sharing her story would explain why she disappeared from public view and ease

01:36her return back to music, as well as help others, adding,

01:38For more on this story, head to tjar.com.

01:47For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Inca Joy.

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