After a four-year hiatus, Duffy has damaged her silence on social media with a heartfelt message for followers.
On Monday, the pop singer-songwriter shared a brief motivational video on Instagram during which she gave the impression to be urging followers to look past “exterior elements” in pursuit of happiness.
“At some point you’re going to see it, that happiness was all the time in regards to the discovery, the hope, the listening to your coronary heart and following it wherever it selected to go,” a voice-over within the video declares.
“Happiness was all the time about being kinder to your self. It was all the time about embracing the particular person you’re turning into,” it continues. “At some point you’ll perceive that happiness was all the time about studying find out how to dwell with your self.”
In an accompanying caption, Duffy described the clip as a “little one thing to encourage the center.”
“Hope you’re all doing effectively,” she wrote. “Plenty of love, Duffy.”
As of Thursday, the publish had acquired practically 17,000 likes, in addition to a plethora of effectively needs from followers.
“We miss you Duffy and your stunning voice,” one particular person wrote.
Added one other: “Thanks, this made me cry. It’s tough to study to like & be type to your self. I’m nonetheless engaged on it.”
The publish was Duffy’s first since 2020. In February of that yr, she mentioned that she’d determined to depart the highlight a few decade earlier after having been “raped and drugged and held captive over some days.”
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“After all I survived. The restoration took time,” she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram publish. “There’s no gentle approach to say it. However I can inform you within the final decade, the hundreds and hundreds of days I dedicated to eager to really feel the sunshine in my coronary heart once more, the solar does now shine.”
She continued: “You surprise why I didn’t select to make use of my voice to precise my ache? I didn’t need to present the world the unhappiness in my eyes. I requested myself, how can I sing from the center whether it is damaged? And slowly it unbroke.”
She didn’t determine an assailant or provide a particular timeline during which the assault and kidnapping had taken place.
Later in 2020, she criticized Netflix for streaming the Polish movie “365 Days,” which depicts acts of sexual violence.
“It grieves me that Netflix supplies a platform for such ‘cinema’, that eroticizes kidnapping and distorts sexual violence and trafficking as a ‘attractive’ film,” she wrote in an open letter to Reed Hastings, Netflix’s co-founder. “I simply can’t think about how Netflix might overlook how careless, insensitive, and harmful that is.”
Duffy, whose full title is Aimée Anne Duffy, rose to fame in 2008 with the discharge of her acclaimed debut album, “Rockferry.”
On the time, her U.Okay. origins, throwback type and wealthy, soulful voice drew favorable comparisons to Adele and Amy Winehouse. In 2009, “Rockferry” received the Grammy for Greatest Pop Vocal Album.
Duffy unveiled her second album, “Endlessly,” in 2010. Nevertheless, she appeared to retreat from the music business shortly thereafter.
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