Warning: This story contains distressing content, including details of sexual assault, kidnapping and thoughts of suicide

Singer Duffy is to give her first in-depth interview about the sex assault and kidnapping that forced her to retreat from public life.

The Welsh singer skyrocketed to fame in 2008 with her debut album Rockferry and won three Brit Awards, a Grammy and an Ivor Novello.

But she vanished from public life in 2011, revealing almost a decade later on social media that she'd been held captive in another country and raped.

A new Disney+ documentary will mark Duffy's only major interview in 15 years.

The channel's vice president of unscripted, Sean Doyle, said he was "in awe" of the singer for sharing her story.

Aimée Anne Duffy grew up between Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire before becoming an overnight sensation with her debut, which became the UK's best selling album of 2008.

But after the release of her second album and announcing a third, she disappeared, leaving fans and the music industry wondering why.

Almost a decade later in 2020, Duffy revealed in a since-deleted Instagram post she'd been attacked.

A month later, she published a personal essay on her website describing how she'd been drugged at a birthday meal and taken to a foreign country where she was raped.

The four-week ordeal only ended when she managed to escape her perpetrator, who has not been identified.

The singer said "utterly no-one" knew about the assault and captivity, which had left her suicidal.

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

"Rape stripped me of my human rights, to experience a life with autonomy from fear. It has already stolen one third of my life.

"But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine."

The feature-length documentary will give "unprecedented access" to Duffy, looking back at her childhood, meteoric rise to fame, the attack and aftermath.

Director Gill Callan said: "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."

Doyle added it would give Duffy the chance to tell her story in her own words.

"Above all, I'm especially in awe of Duffy - for her honesty and courage."

A release date has yet to be announced but some hope it is a sign Duffy will return to her music career, five years after she shared two original songs.

The singer also shared a teaser for a remix of her smash hit Mercy on TikTok in March 2025, in her first social media post since 2020.

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