Rape Crisis charity praises Duffy for going public with details of four-week abduction ordeal

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Duffy has been praised by the charity Rape Crisis for speaking publicly about being drugged, raped and held captive over a period of four weeks. Katie Russell, the national spokeswoman for Rape Crisis in England and Wales, told The Guardian that it was “a really bold move to speak publicly, and really commendable”. She continued: “We know through our frontline work at Rape Crisis why so few victims and survivors do speak about what has happened to them, or indeed report it to the police.” “It is because there is a lot of shame and stigma still attached to being raped or sexually assaulted and there are a lot of myths and stereotypes out there around the kind of people it happens to. That’s really important because there is still a lack of understanding and we don’t talk enough about rape and sexual violence.” Duffy, whose full name is Aimee Duffy, had written that she ”thought the public disclosure of my story would utterly destroy my life, emotionally, while hiding my story was destroying my life so much more”.