Ray J has revealed he believes he won’t live past this year as his heart is ‘done’ from years of drug and alcohol abuse.
The rapper, 45, was previously treated for pneumonia but in a recent update on Instagram, he confirmed things weren’t looking up.
‘2027 is definitely a wrap for me. This [gesturing to his heart] is black. This is, like, done,’ he told fans on the livestream.
He shared that he ‘almost died’ while in hospital and admitted he had messed up by thinking he had ‘more weight’.
‘I thought I was big so I could handle all the alcohol, I could handle all the Adderall, I could handle all the drugs—but I couldn’t. It curved my time here,’ he explained.
The Sexy Can I singer said over the weekend his heart was ‘only beating 25 percent’ but he had put a recovery plan in place.
Before his health scare, Ray J — who has daughter Melody, seven, and son Epik, five, with estranged wife Princess Love — was taking 10 Adderall per day.
He was also drinking ‘four or five bottles’, reasoning: ‘Ain’t nothing happening to me I’m undestructible. [sic]’
Ray J rose to fame in the 00s with hits like One Wish and Lil’ Kim collab Wait A Minute, however, he’s more well known for his video collaboration with Kim Kardashian.
Since then, he’s kept fairly out of the spotlight, appearing on the 2017 series of Celebrity Big Brother, where he walked off after a week.
In 2020, he and Princess appeared in the first episodes of reality TV show The Conversation and two months later, she filed for divorce.
He continued: ‘As long as I stay focused and stay on the right path, everything will be all right.
‘My health is not OK, so I thank everybody for supporting and praying for me through everything I’ve been in the hospital.’
His family have rallied around him, including parents Sonja and Willie Norwood and his sister Brandy, who is also a singer.
‘My momma and my daddy coming to pick me up tomorrow and they’re gonna take me to the checkup,’ he shared.
‘Shoutout to my momma and daddy, and shoutout to Brandy for looking out for me. My sister paid my bills for me for the rest of the year. That’s crazy.’
The I Hit It First singer was hospitalised with pneumonia in 2021, initially assuming he had coronavirus, and so he was placed in the Covid wing.
Calling his time in the wing ‘terrifying’, he stated: ‘I thought it was over. I started praying and knew God is good so I just kept praying.’
He was moved to a different ward and placed on oxygen, making a full recovery at the time.
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