Netflix stands by hit film 365 Days despite Duffy’s sex trafficking criticism

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Admin

Streaming platform says it is giving viewers ‘more choice’ after British singer accuses film of glamourising rape

Netflix will continue to stream hit Polish film 365 Days despite calls for its withdrawal, including by British singer Duffy, who accused it of glamourising rape and sex trafficking.

The Welsh singer-songwriter wrote an open letter to the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings, raising her concerns about the film based on a bestselling Polish book trilogy by Blanka Lipińska.

Duffy praised by Rape Crisis for going public with details of ordeal

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Admin

Account of kidnap and rape will help to stop others suffering in silence, says charity

A national rape charity has praised the bravery of the pop singer Duffy for going public with harrowing details of how she was drugged, held captive and raped early in her career.

On Sunday Duffy posted details of an ordeal which she kept secret for a decade, hoping that it might bring comfort to others that it is possible to “come out of the darkness”.

Duffy debuts first new music since rape ordeal revelation

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Admin

Welsh star’s song Something Beautiful played on Radio 2 to ‘lift spirits during these troubling times’

Duffy, the pop star who recently said she retreated from public life due to a kidnap and rape ordeal, has debuted her first new music since the announcement.

Pop star Duffy says she was raped, drugged and held captive

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Admin

Welsh singer made statement on Instagram saying she was held captive for several days

Aimee Duffy, the Welsh pop singer known as Duffy who retreated from the public eye following her hugely successful debut album Rockferry, has said she was drugged, held captive and raped by an unidentified person.

In a statement on her official Instagram account she said: “The truth is, and please trust me I am OK and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.”