Grammy-winning singer Duffy cameoed on TikTok this week in what was believed to be her first public appearance in over a decade, to promote a remix of her song “Mercy.”

In a post by e.motion, which noted the singer was doing a U.K. garage mix with the act, Duffy lip-synced to her 2008 hit. She also gave a playful wink to the camera.

See her brief appearance in the spotlight below.

“Mercy” was a track from the Welsh artist’s debut, Rockferry, which was named the year’s Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammys. Duffy was nominated for “Mercy” in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and she was up for Best New Artist. While she went on to release another album and to act, she revealed in 2020 that she had gone quiet after being drugged, kidnapped, and raped.

“Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why,” Duffy wrote. “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 [but] 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.”

She offered heartbreaking details two months later.

“It was my birthday,” she wrote in a blog post. “I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country. I can’t remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a travelling vehicle.”

Then, she explained, she was taken to a hotel room and raped by the kidnapper, who talked about wanting to kill her.

“I could have been disposed of by him,” recalled Duffy, whose real name is Aimée Anne Duffy. “I contemplated running away to the neighboring city or town, as he slept, but had no cash and I was afraid he would call the police on me … I do not know how I had the strength to endure those days.”

Eventually, she managed to escape. She described a years-long recovery that included working with a psychologist and moving multiple times. The singer wrote then that she wasn’t sure what was ahead regarding her music career.

“I can now leave this decade behind. Where the past belongs,” Duffy wrote then. “Hopefully no more ‘what happened to Duffy questions,’ now you know … and I am free.”

If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.