Welsh singer Duffy has broken through the social media hiatus to share a motivational message to fans four years after revealing the horrific kidnapping and rape that saw her leave the spotlight.
She posted an inspiring video on Monday on Instagram.
“One day, you'll see that happiness has always been about discovery, hope, listening to your heart and following it wherever it chooses to go,” a voiceover in the video said.
“Happiness has always been about being kinder to yourself. It has always been about embracing the person you have become. One day you will understand that happiness has always been about learning how to live with yourself.”
Duffy, whose real name is Amy Ann Duffy, captioned the video: “A little something to warm the heart. Hope you're all doing well. Lots of love, Duffy.”
Fans flooded the comments section with love and support.
“We miss you Daffy and your beautiful voice,” one fan wrote.
Another commented: “We miss you Daffy. We love you. Hope you are doing well. Remember people love you here.”
Another told Duffy they think about her “every day.”
“You are so adorable!” “Wrote the fan.
In 2020, Duffy told fans she was raped, drugged and held captive “over the course of a few days.”
“Of course I survived. It took some time to recover,” she said in a since-deleted Instagram post explaining her absence from the industry.
In February 2011 she announced that she would be taking a break from music after releasing her second album “Endless”.
“But I can tell you in the last decade, during the thousands and thousands of days that I have committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun is shining now,” she said in the post.
Duffy wrote in a 2020 article that she was drugged in a restaurant on her birthday and taken to a foreign country. She said she did not remember getting on the plane and that it “came in the back of a traveling car.”
“I was put in a hotel room and the perpetrator came back and raped me,” she wrote. “I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after it happened.”
Duffy described returning home with her alleged kidnapper and said he “drugged me in my house for the four weeks.”
She eventually escaped, but she said she did not go to the police at first because she did not feel safe.
Duffy's team did not immediately respond to TODAY.com's request for comment on March 27. NBC News was unable to independently verify the story of Duffy's kidnapping and assault.
D.C. Police told NBC News on March 28 that there was no record of the singer speaking to them about her ordeal. NBC News also reached out to the UK's National Crime Agency but did not immediately receive a response.
Duffy, 39, rose to international fame in 2008 after releasing her song “Mercy,” which appeared in the movie “Sex and the City” and the TV show “Grey’s Anatomy.” The following year, it won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
