{"id":444243,"date":"2026-04-20T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/444243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:24:15","slug":"raye-reveals-shes-given-up-instagram-for-a-bible-app-after-crediting-her-faith-for-getting-her-through-her-darkest-moments-battling-drugs-and-alcohol-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/444243\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye reveals she&#8217;s given up Instagram for a Bible app after crediting her faith for getting her through her darkest moments battling drugs and alcohol misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.uk<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-662\/chloe-louise.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CHLOE LOUISE, SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=chlolouiseuk&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  12:32 EDT, 19 April 2026   |  Updated:  13:02 EDT, 19 April 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/raye\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6903be90-3bf7-11f1-9f2f-9f36bdc604e9\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raye<\/a> has revealed she has given up Instagram for a Bible app after she credited her faith for getting her through her darkest moments battling drugs and alcohol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The singer, 28, has been open in the past about her drug and alcohol misuse while she was at Polydor Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And now she has reflected on the influence her Christian faith had on her recovery in an interview with<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/\"> The Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She told the publication: &#8216;I\u2019m terrified of people picking me apart and eating me alive. At the end of the day not everyone\u2019s going to love it but I know somebody out there will.\u00a0I think since I&#8217;ve come offline, it&#8217;s been much better, ignorance is bliss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If someone said I look awful in a dress, it&#8217;d make me sad, if I don&#8217;t know someone said I look awful in a dress \u2026 so I&#8217;m really [big] on being offline.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Raye uses a Bible app instead of social media and\u00a0looks for answers there instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ef3f8f89733256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/108001201-15746083-image-a-1_1776603790839.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Raye, 28, has revealed she has given up Instagram for a Bible app after she credited her faith for getting her through her darkest moments battling drugs and alcohol\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Raye, 28, has revealed she has given up Instagram for a Bible app after she credited her faith for getting her through her darkest moments battling drugs and alcohol<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She went on to clarify that while she is very private online, in real life, she always wants to leave a good impression and will always say hello to fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Raye said: &#8216;It\u2019s taken me so long to get here, I\u2019d be terrified to jeopardise all of that by giving someone a bad impression of me,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I\u2019ll always say hello.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The singer recently opened up on overcoming her struggles with substance abuse, sharing her pride for the woman she&#8217;s become after finding &#8216;discipline and abstinence in my life&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Raye got candid about the dark time she went through with drugs and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/alcohol\/index.html\" id=\"mol-5e14b4b0-f6ee-11f0-b9cc-f37034ca19d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alcohol<\/a> as she covered the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a69947108\/raye-new-album-music-tour-interview-2026\/\">February 2026 issue of ELLE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She said: &#8216;I&#8217;m really proud of the growth I&#8217;ve done, because there&#8217;s a period in my life where I wasn&#8217;t interested in going on. And I know a lot of people out there go through that. I would never dream of giving up on myself like that today.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Escapism star said she\u00a0became involved in drugs at the start of her career, admitting to taking codeine and MDMA, as well as drinking to numb her pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But with the help of her family, particularly her sister Lauren Keen, she was able to get through it and is &#8216;no longer drinking to escape&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Reflecting on how different her experience was writing her\u00a0highly anticipated second album, compared to her debut LP, she said: &#8216;A lot of My 21st Century Blues, I was up in the clouds, rolling a blunt. I like that I&#8217;ve come down to earth to write these lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-80b1cee218c28bed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/108001231-15746083-image-a-2_1776603804428.jpg\" height=\"963\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The singer, 28, has been open in the past about her drug and alcohol misuse while she was at Polydor Records\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The singer, 28, has been open in the past about her drug and alcohol misuse while she was at Polydor Records<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I prefer myself like this&#8217;, she went on. &#8216;I&#8217;ve found discipline and abstinence in my life, and it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. I&#8217;ll have a nice glass of wine every now and then, but I&#8217;m no longer drinking to fix or bury or numb or escape.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She previously told Daily Mail about how she sang about her experiences with substance abuse and assault in order to &#8216;process the trauma&#8217; in her past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Explaining she didn&#8217;t want to shy away from &#8216;difficult&#8217; topics, Raye said that speaking about her issues in her lyrics served as &#8216;medicine&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She revealed: &#8216;I just want to be a woman discussing uncomfortable topics that we don&#8217;t talk about, these are all things I battled with in the darkness and in silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;You hope in writing about these songs and putting them out into the world, you just hope that people hear them, and relate to them also.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s very much medicine in a way that you have a different feeling to put quite a painful emotion to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;For me is just very empowering, and I hope it can be medicine for anyone else who who needs it.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Raye reveals she&#8217;s given up Instagram for a Bible app after crediting her faith for getting her through her darkest moments battling drugs and alcohol misuse<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have YOU got a story? 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