 On 3 October 2012, Duffy escaped from a fire in the rented penthouse apartment in which she was living, Abbots House in Kensington, London.On 25 February 2020, in a since deleted post on her Instagram account, Duffy wrote that she had been "raped and drugged and held hostage over some days".She said she had disappeared from the spotlight so she could recover, adding that she was now doing well, but it had taken her time to recover.