Ray J says his days are numbered and the number he cites is 2027.
“I almost died!! I'm alive because of your prayers and support!!” the singer wrote in an Instagram caption posted Sunday.
“I want to thank everyone for praying for me. I was in the hospital,” he said in the accompanying video. “My heart is only beating at 25%, but as long as I stay focused and on the right path, everything will be fine, so thank you for all your prayers.”
However, it was a different story on another livestream, captured in clips on the @Livebitez Instagram page.
“2027 is definitely an end for me,” William Ray Norwood Jr., 45, real name, said in a video posted Tuesday, making a “chopping” motion along his neck.
“No, don't say that, bro,” a friend says off-camera.
“That's what the doctor says,” Ray J responded meekly, then apparently became frustrated when his friend spoke loudly over him and insisted that he was going to live long enough to see his children's children.
In the clip below, the singer says, “It doesn't matter if my days are numbered. But guess what: my baby mama will be straight. My kids will be straight. If they want to spend all the money, they can spend it, but I did my part here.”
Then he looks up and says to his friend, “I shouldn't have tried so hard, brother. I shouldn't have tried so hard. And then when it's all over, burn me, don't bury me.”
In clips compiled in the following Livebitez post, Ray J admits to using a lot of alcohol and drugs and says it ruined his heart “on the right side, here, it's like black. It's like done.” He said he might go to Haiti to “do some voodoo” because he believes “they have the cure.”
He also said he thought he was “bigger” and “had more weight” to withstand the substance attack. “I thought I could handle all the alcohol, I could handle all the Adderall.”
Skip to the next clip where he says he thought he “could handle all the drugs, but I couldn't… And that limited my time here.”
In a final collection of clips, Ray J mentions the criminal protection order imposed by the court after a run-in with the law in November. .
Ray J was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of making criminal threats, a Los Angeles police spokesperson told The Times in late November. The singer allegedly pulled a gun on his ex-wife, Princess Love, during a heated argument that occurred during a live broadcast on Thanksgiving Day.
Because of the protective order related to that incident, he is not allowed to see her or her children, Melody, 7, and Epik, who turned 6 last month. He said in court documents reviewed by Page Six that he pointed the gun at her to stop her from taking the children away from their home after a drunken family vacation.
In the latest batch of clips, he says his parents were picking him up “tomorrow” for a doctor's appointment. He mentions that his sister Brandy had paid his bills “for the rest of the year. That's crazy.”
Even though the singer and actor paid his bill, Ray J says his children have “at least $10 million” in their trust fund account.
The R&B singer was hospitalized in early January in Las Vegas, sidelined with heart pain and pneumonia, according to TMZ. Four years ago, he also battled pneumonia.
