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Grammy-winner Duffy to share rape and kidnapping story for first time on new Disney+ documentary

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Welsh singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse's contemporary, the chart-topping artist Duffy is set to reveal her harrowing experience of being drugged, raped, kidnapped over several weeks in a brand-new Hulu Original feature-length documentary.

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    Grammy-winning Welsh singer Duffy is set to open up about her sexual assault and kidnapping ordeal publicly on the upcoming Hulu Original documentary.
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    The incident occurred around six years prior, where she claims she was drugged in a foreign country before being held captive for weeks against her will.
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    This marks the first time Duffy has discussed these traumatic experiences directly to an audience since revealing details of it via essay and social media posts.
2019 (Inferred) The incident occurred where Duffy was drugged, flown abroad as a child (or young adult), kidnapped for weeks while being held hostage against her will and sexually assaulted.
March 4-5, 2019 (Inferred) She wrote an essay publicly revealing the details of what happened to her in a terrifying incident involving drugging abroad.
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