Duffy is about to make a shock music comeback with a Storage remix of her greatest hit ‘Mercy’.
Duffy’s noughties chart-topper ‘Mercy’ has been become a Storage banger
The Welsh singer disappeared from the highlight in 2011 for a decade after being kidnapped and raped and informed her harrowing story in 2020.
On Wednesday (27.03.25), Duffy took to Instagram to share a clip of the remix of her 2008 hit – which spent 5 weeks atop the UK Chart and went on to develop into the third best-selling single of the yr.
Alongside a clip of her mouthing the lyrics to the remix, she captioned the Instagram clip: “A few of you requested if Duffy was actually doing a UK Storage remix…
“#duffy #ukgarage #newmusic #speedgarage.”
Duffy claimed she had been “raped, drugged, and held captive” and spent 4 weeks barely acutely aware.
She had no thought what occurred in that month till her attacker took her to an undisclosed “overseas nation”, the place he sexually assaulted her in a lodge room.
She wrote on her web site on the time: “It was my birthday, I used to be drugged at a restaurant, I used to be drugged then for 4 weeks and travelled to a overseas nation.
“I am unable to keep in mind getting on the aircraft and got here spherical at the back of a travelling car.
“I used to be put right into a lodge room and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I keep in mind the ache and attempting to remain acutely aware within the room after it occurred.
“I used to be caught with him for an additional day, he did not take a look at me, I used to be to stroll behind him, I used to be considerably acutely aware and withdrawn. I might have been disposed of by him…
“I have no idea how I had the energy to endure these days, I did really feel the presence of one thing that helped me keep alive.
“I flew again with him, I stayed calm and as regular as somebody might in a scenario like that, and after I obtained dwelling, I sat, dazed, like a zombie. I knew my life was in speedy hazard, he made veiled confessions of desirous to kill me. With what little energy I had, my intuition was to then run, to run and discover someplace to stay that he couldn’t discover.
“The perpetrator drugged me in my own residence within the 4 weeks, I have no idea if he raped me there throughout that point, I solely keep in mind coming spherical within the automobile within the overseas nation and the escape that will occur by me fleeing within the days following that.
“I have no idea why I used to be not drugged abroad; it leads me to assume I used to be given a category A drug and he couldn’t journey with it.
“After it occurred, somebody I knew got here to my home and noticed me on my balcony staring into area, wrapped in a blanket. I can not keep in mind getting dwelling. The individual mentioned I used to be yellow in color and I used to be like a lifeless individual. They have been clearly frightened however didn’t wish to intervene, that they had by no means seen something prefer it.”
The ‘One thing Stunning’ singer did not really feel “secure” sufficient to go to police as she fearful her attacker would discover her and “kill” her, however confirmed the incident “is on file” as she informed police following two different separate incidents.
She defined: “As soon as somebody threatened to ‘out’ my story and I needed to inform a feminine police officer what data the individual held about me, and why the blackmail was so horrifying.
“The second incident was when three males tried to enter my home as intruders, I informed the second feminine officer in regards to the rape then additionally. The identification of the rapist ought to be solely dealt with by the police, and that’s between me and them.”
Duffy – who wrote she was “warned” she’d be “completed” if she ever made her ordeal public – admitted she thought of taking up a brand new identification and fleeing abroad.
She wrote: “I additionally thought of and explored human rights legal guidelines to alter my identify off public file and disappear to a different nation and perhaps develop into a florist or one thing, in order that I might put the previous behind with a brand new life and never hassle anybody else with it, to hold it alone.
“As a result of, though I used to be nearly unfindable, I daydreamed of getting a unique haircut, a brand new identify, a boyfriend, and develop into fully endlessly forgotten. As time went on it then grew to become about realising, I am unable to preserve hiding, as thrilling as espresso in Paris appears.”
Duffy in the end did not wish to do an “immense disservice” to herself by “deleting” her earlier life, having already misplaced a lot.
She wrote: “Rape stripped me of my human rights, to expertise a life with autonomy from concern. It has already stolen one third my of life. Deep down I do know it could have been a disgrace and finished such an immense disservice to my existence to simply delete myself and overlook what I had skilled in music publicly.”