Duffy finally feels ‘safe’ after ‘cutting off hair and moving 5 times’ following rape ordeal

metro.co.uk:

Warning: this article contains details experience of sexual assault. Duffy this week shared details behind her horrific rape ordeal, which resulted in her cutting off her hair and moving house five times out of fear of her attacker.

In a lengthy 3,000-word essay, titled The 5th House, uploaded to her website on Sunday night, the singer said she was drugged on her birthday and submitted to four weeks of assault, having been flown to another country.

In the aftermath she withdrew from life and explained she didn’t tell her family or friends as she’d ‘become estranged from all’.

At one stage, Duffy said her hair became so tangled she cut it off. The 35-year-old wrote: ‘I would not see someone, a physical soul, for sometimes weeks and weeks and