R&B singer Ray J, shown arriving at the BET Awards in 2024, is talking about the treatment he has been prescribed for his heart condition. Ray J is under doctor’s orders to stay on bed rest, take all his prescribed medications and avoid drinking alcohol or smoking because of his damaged heart. Doctors told Ray J — real name William Ray Norwood Jr. — that he should prepare for the chance that he might need a pacemaker or defibrillator soon, the singer told the celebrity site. The number likely refers to Ray J’s heart’s ejection fraction, which measures the volume of blood coming out of the heart’s left ventricle or being drawn into the right ventricle when the heart beats. Doctors have told him he has only months to live, Ray J said in his recent livestreams, and he believes he won’t last past this calendar year.