{"id":1545,"date":"2026-01-28T06:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:07:28","slug":"ray-j-reveals-he-only-has-weeks-to-live-after-heart-failure-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/ray-j-reveals-he-only-has-weeks-to-live-after-heart-failure-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray J Reveals He \u201cOnly Has Weeks to Live\u201d After Heart Failure Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray J shocked viewers of his late-night livestream on Monday (<strong>January 27<\/strong>) when he revealed his latest stint in the hospital was accompanied with confirmation he only has \u201cthree weeks to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just a day after breaking his silence about that headline grabbing hospitalization for pneumonia and severe chest pains, Ray J (born <strong>Willie Norwood Jr.<\/strong>) who reported his heart was only functioning at \u201c25%\u201d \u2013 followed up with news the doctors gave him \u201cweeks to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is my last stream of all time. I\u2019m going to keep it real, I\u2019m not even gassing y\u2019all \u2013 this is it,\u201d<\/em> he shared with viewers of Monday night\u2019s social media livestream.<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere during the shocking admission, a somber Norwood \u00a0who appeared to be inebriated \u2013 thanked his friends, fans, and family for supporting him over the years, particularly shouting out his award-winning sister <strong>Brandy<\/strong> for \u201cpaying his bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not supposed to drink, but it doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s it for me,\u201d<\/em> Ray revealed. \u201c<em>It doesn\u2019t matter. Time tells everything, and they [the doctors] gave me my time. I\u2019m not going to tell y\u2019all when but it\u2019s sooner than later \u00a0sooner than February.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before the conclusion of the livestream, the 45-year-old singer-actor-reality star clarified he was given \u201cthree weeks to live\u201d despite not sharing the exact date of the alleged diagnosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray J shocked viewers of his late-night livestream on Monday (January 27) when he revealed his latest stint in the hospital was accompanied with confirmation he only has \u201cthree weeks to live.\u201d Just a day after breaking his silence about that headline grabbing hospitalization for pneumonia and severe chest pains, Ray J (born Willie Norwood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}