Gretta Ray Shares Hospital Admission: 'I Will Soon Be On The Other Side Of All Of This'
Gretta Ray has experienced a “scary time” filled with uncertainty, but she’s devised a plan for the future.
Gretta Ray (Credit: Sam Mead)
In early June, Australian pop singer Gretta Ray moved from Melbourne to London to give her artist career the “very best shot” she could.
After landing in London, the Heartbreak Baby singer shared that she’d teamed up with Spotify for a podcast show called Seeking Out The Silver Lining, an exploration of her second album, Positive Spin, released last year, and tracks Roses and Better. Then, fans who follow Ray on social media didn’t hear from her for a while.
On Friday (12 July), Ray revealed that she’d been admitted to the ER shortly after she arrived in London and had remained in hospital for five weeks.
Adding that it’s been a “scary time” filled with uncertainty, she’s come up with a plan for the future and says she “will soon be on the other side of all of this.”
In a candid social media post, she continued, “I have a long recovery period ahead of me and for now I'm going to keep the details of my illness private, but I felt compelled to make this post to remind all of you that if you are ever feeling unsettlingly sick, in unexpected sudden pain, or you just know that something is wrong, make sure you listen to that gut feeling and get seen to as soon as you can.
“I am extremely grateful to the many doctors and nurses who are taking such amazing care of me - I will hold them in my heart forever,” Ray wrote. She concluded her post by writing that all of her energy will be focused on her recovery and being super gentle with her body. You can view Ray’s post below.
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The Music is sending Gretta Ray well wishes and hopes she has a smooth recovery.
Back in March, Ray released the single Roses, her “love letter to London” that made it onto the deluxe edition of Positive Spin.
The Music spotlighted Positive Spin as one of the best Australian albums of 2023. We praised it as “a bright and bubbly soundtrack for a cultural moment that has been everything but”.
Ray said upon the album’s initial release last August: “Songwriting is so therapeutic, and my way of moving through my emotions has been to put a positive spin on my experiences.” She was later nominated for the 2023 Australian Music Prize, which was won by RVG for Brain Worms.
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