I think Duffy Made Up Her Abduction Story

Also, yes, I made a fatal error. This really should have been a poll. You don't even have to admonish me, Poll Troll. I recognized it the second I hit the Post button.

It seems COMPLETELY true.

[quote]I want to emphasize, I am NOT one of those men's rights goons.

But you are, Blanche, you are !

Did she beg them for mercy?

I’m sorry, it was obligatory and low-hanging fruit.

Yeah - didn't go to police? Can't remember how you got back into the country?

A really bizarre story. She had to know WHICH country just by signage or other stuff.

Who would believe this? Seriously

Duffy who?

Duffy the Big Fat Liar

Rachel Campos-Duffy of fox "news." She's married to Sean Duffy, the guy Trump put in charge of airplane crashes.

R8 you Maga?!

It happens!

I believe it. They let her go, but kept her career.

Patrick Duffy?

Julia Duffy doesn’t lie about anything - it requires energy and remembering things.

Too many people here assume were are living in their heads.

Are we supposed to guess who this Duffy person is? Or are we supposed to conduct our own research?

Ok - Duffy was a popular British white 'new soul' singer in the late aughts. Her big hit was Mercy in the States but she had others as well.

Here's Mercy.

R15 here - she won a Grammy for that album, so it's not like anyone can claim she's unknown here in the States.

Scruffy Duffys! The popular sports bar in Hell's Kitchen.

I forgot all about Duffy. She was a gimmicky singer with that shrill quavering vibrato. Mercy was only a minor hit here, didn’t get near the Top 10, but it was catchy.

When I read her bizarre claim of abduction and rape I just felt… sad. I knew immediately it was mental illness. Most of us did. Hopefully she’s better now but that was just sad.

r8 No

You can do it Duffy Moon!!

I kinda liked her simple live cover of Borderline.

R4 Haha, you beat me to it.

I read that she refused to play along with the music industries behind the scenes shams and practices.

I miss her music. It reminds me of a specific time and place, as music does. But I do wonder why nothing ever came of the story, arrests, etc. And why it wasn’t a bigger story.

[quote]And why it wasn’t a bigger story.

It felt as if the story had a one-day press cycle. There were many people in the Daily Mail comment section saying she made it up. Though, thanks to the historical reports on grooming gangs coming out in the past month or so, those same doubters will probably think there's something to her story.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

R25, that is hard to prove. Her attacker could claim she had party remorse and everything was consensual.

I can’t get over a murderess for an evil step-mother and then a house fire. Her name should be “Lucky”.

Mercy was her only big hit, yes, but I think her song Rockferry is her best. It was *almost* Amy Winehouse good.

The story was a bizarre one. She claimed that some man drugged her, took her out of the UK to a foreign country she cannot identify, then took her back into the UK and back to her house and kept her hostage there in her own home for a month. Plus rape(s) as part of the ordeal, but it’s the simple logistics alone that just seem unbelievable (literally).

Now it’s all this shroud of bravery and victimhood in long long long essay form, a mention that she’s isolated herself from her family, and apparently no police investigation at all… which suggests to me that both family and police understand what this is.

She apparently found fame to be very hard - didn't like to be recognized, etc.

Mental illness for sure - there would be passport records of who she left the country with and who she came back with. And yet she's not pursuing any criminal case?

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Maybe she had malaria and hallucinated all this? But my money would be on a nasty drug binge that she hardly remembers.