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Raye 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.
The singer, 28, has been open in the past about her drug and alcohol misuse while she was at Polydor Records.
And now she has reflected on the influence her Christian faith had on her recovery in an interview with The Times.
She told the publication: ‘I’m terrified of people picking me apart and eating me alive. At the end of the day not everyone’s going to love it but I know somebody out there will. I think since I’ve come offline, it’s been much better, ignorance is bliss.
‘If someone said I look awful in a dress, it’d make me sad, if I don’t know someone said I look awful in a dress … so I’m really [big] on being offline.’
Raye uses a Bible app instead of social media and looks for answers there instead.
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
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.
Raye said: ‘It’s taken me so long to get here, I’d be terrified to jeopardise all of that by giving someone a bad impression of me,” she says. “So I’ll always say hello.’
The singer recently opened up on overcoming her struggles with substance abuse, sharing her pride for the woman she’s become after finding ‘discipline and abstinence in my life’.
Raye got candid about the dark time she went through with drugs and alcohol as she covered the February 2026 issue of ELLE.
She said: ‘I’m really proud of the growth I’ve done, because there’s a period in my life where I wasn’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.’
The Escapism star said she became involved in drugs at the start of her career, admitting to taking codeine and MDMA, as well as drinking to numb her pain.
But with the help of her family, particularly her sister Lauren Keen, she was able to get through it and is ‘no longer drinking to escape’.
Reflecting on how different her experience was writing her highly anticipated second album, compared to her debut LP, she said: ‘A lot of My 21st Century Blues, I was up in the clouds, rolling a blunt. I like that I’ve come down to earth to write these lyrics.
The singer, 28, has been open in the past about her drug and alcohol misuse while she was at Polydor Records
‘I prefer myself like this’, she went on. ‘I’ve found discipline and abstinence in my life, and it’s a beautiful thing. I’ll have a nice glass of wine every now and then, but I’m no longer drinking to fix or bury or numb or escape.’
She previously told Daily Mail about how she sang about her experiences with substance abuse and assault in order to ‘process the trauma’ in her past.
Explaining she didn’t want to shy away from ‘difficult’ topics, Raye said that speaking about her issues in her lyrics served as ‘medicine’.
She revealed: ‘I just want to be a woman discussing uncomfortable topics that we don’t talk about, these are all things I battled with in the darkness and in silence.
‘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.
‘It’s very much medicine in a way that you have a different feeling to put quite a painful emotion to it.
‘For me is just very empowering, and I hope it can be medicine for anyone else who who needs it.’
