{"id":912927,"date":"2026-10-02T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912927\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:18:14","slug":"ray-j-raced-to-hospital-after-medical-scare-caught-on-livestream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912927\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray J raced to hospital after medical scare caught on livestream"},"content":{"rendered":"

American singer Ray J has been raced to hospital after suffering a medical emergency in the middle of a livestream, just months after he said he was given a year to live.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The 45-year-old, whose real name is William Ray Norwood Jr, was attended by paramedics who were seen on the livestream treating him and then loading him into an ambulance.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

American singer Ray J has been raced to hospital after suffering a medical emergency in the middle of a livestream.\u00a0Kick\/RayJ<\/p>\n

Norwood\u2019s mother was also present when his health scare<\/a> occurred on Thursday (local time).<\/p>\n

TMZ reported the situation was \u201cstrictly medical\u201d and that sources said \u201cthere was nothing unusual or suspicious going on\u201d when ambulances were called to the Hollywood-based studio Norwood was streaming from.<\/p>\n

The outlet also reported that Norwood experienced what\u00a0\u201csound[ed] like\u201d a \u201cproblem with his heart\u201d.<\/p>\n

In January, the rapper announced on social media that he was suffering from severe heart failure and did not expect to survive for more than 12 months.<\/p>\n

He received the diagnosis after being hospitalised with pneumonia and said it was a result of heavy binge-drinking and drug abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201c2027 is definitely a wrap for me. That\u2019s what they say,\u201d he confessed in an Instagram video.<\/p>\n

\u201cI f–ked up. I thought\u2026 I could handle all the alcohol, I could handle all the Adderall, I could handle all the drugs, but I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later told TMZ he\u2019d been placed on ordered bed rest to help manage the condition.<\/p>\n

Despite his health concerns, Norwood has been running a 180-day livestreaming marathon and has reportedly been going for long stretches without sleep to keep the stream active.<\/p>\n

\"Ray<\/p>\n

Ray J famously dated Kim Kardashian in the early 2000s.\u00a0FilmMagic<\/p>\n

Norwood is the younger brother of American singer and actress Brandy, and found his own fame in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

He famously dated Kim Kardashian<\/a> from 2002 until 2006, and went on to have a reality TV career of his own years after they split.<\/p>\n

Norwood has been married once and shares two children with ex-wife Princess Love, but she filed for divorce in 2020 after four years of marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American singer Ray J has been raced to hospital after suffering a medical emergency in the middle of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-912927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}