Duffy to speak about kidnap ordeal for first time in Disney+ documentary

Duffy is to speak about her kidnap ordeal for the first time in a Disney+ documentary .

The singer , 40 - real name Aimée Anne Duffy - revealed in 2020 that she had been held captive over a four-week period .

Now, years after she revealed her story - the star will speak about the horrifying ordeal on camera for the first time.

Disney say the film will “be a retrospective film traversing Duffy’s life, from her upbringing in Wales, through to her meteoric rise to fame and her withdrawal from public life following her unfathomable experience”.

The press release adds: “The original documentary film will be driven by new, unprecedented access to Duffy, along with a rich and nostalgic archive, and interviews with family, friends, and close peers in the music industry.”
The director of the film, Gill Callan, added: “Duffy’s life has been shaped by success and fame, but equally by pain, defiance, and an irrepressible sense of self.

I’m drawn to the tension between vulnerability and confidence in her story and how a person can be deeply affected by their experiences, yet still find a powerful, expressive voice that is unmistakably hers.”
In her 2020 post, the singer said she had been too terrified to go to the authorities in the immediate aftermath, for fear of her attacker locating her.

As a result, she said she moved house five times before she started to feel anywhere near safe again.

Duffy said : “In the aftermath I would not see someone, a physical soul, for sometimes weeks and weeks and weeks at a time, remaining alone.

“I would take off my pajamas and throw them in the fire and put on another set.

My hair would get so knotted from not brushing it, as I grieved, I cut it all off.”
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Of her decision to finally speak out, she said: “I am sharing this because we are living in a hurting world and I am no longer ashamed that something deeply hurt me, anymore.

“I believe that if you speak from the heart within you, the heart within others will answer.

As dark as my story is, I do speak from my heart, for my life, and for the life of others, whom have suffered the same.”
She continued: “I have no shame in telling you either I had spent almost ten years completely alone and it still burns my heart to write it.

“I owe it to myself to say it, I feel obliged to explain how challenging recovering truly was and to finally disclose it.

I hope it comforts you to feel less ashamed if you feel alone.”
Explaining that her main hope was to gain some closure, she concluded: “I can now leave this decade behind.

Where the past belongs.

Hopefully no more ‘what happened to Duffy questions’, now you know … and I am free.”