Duffy has revealed she moved house five times before she felt she was safe again after her drugging and kidnapping ordeal.
The Welsh singer has opened up about her experience in a heart-wrenching essay, ten years after it happened.
It took her a decade of healing before she felt she was able to speak publicly again, and in that time she could not settle in one house because she was so terrified her rapist would find her.
"It took so long for me to speak because after I was raped and held captive, I fled," she wrote.
"I moved five times in the immediate three years after, never feeling safe from the rapist, I was on the run for so long.
"I found somewhere to live, the 5th house, it was not as confined as the other houses, where I grieved silently, in townhouses or apartments."
Duffy was taken to a foreign country where she was raped in a hotel room by the perpetrator.
She was too scared to run away while she was in a foreign country in case the perpetrator alerted the police and they tracked her down.
She continued: "This place I would spend solitary years to find the stability to recover, I had stopped running and relocating.
"I felt he could not find me in the 5th house, I felt safe."
She added: "I feel safe now."
She spoke in harrowing detail of her trauma and of her difficult grieving and healing process, crediting the help of a psychologist who specialised in complex trauma and sexual violence.
She said she needed time in isolation in order to overcome the experience, and urged the public to be strong in their isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.
She urged readers to find love in everything and to be thankful always for what we do have.
If you're struggling and need to talk, the Samaritans operate a free helpline open 24/7 on 116 123. Alternatively, you can email jo@samaritans.org if you'd prefer to write down how you feel.
