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In 2019, Kevin Roose, a technology columnist at the New York Times, wrote a piece titled “How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain” in which he detailed the strict boundaries he set around phone use in order to improve his relationship with it.

Though Duffy did not name her alleged abuser, she said that over the course of her absence from music, her heart slowly "unbroke."

"I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken? And slowly it unbroke. In the following weeks I will be posting a spoken interview. If you have any questions I would like to answer them, in the spoken interview, if I can. I have a sacred love and sincere appreciation for your kindness over the years. You have been friends. I want to thank you for that x."

And slowly it unbroke,” she wrote.

“You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes. I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken? And slowly it unbroke,” she added.