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Ray J‘s mom, Sonja Norwood, is speaking out and setting the record straight on his health.

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Sonja Norwood Sets The Record Straight On Ray J’s Health

During the early hours of Tuesday, March 3, Sonja Norwood took to Facebook for a livestream with her followers. Furthermore, Norwood later captioned the 38-minute clip, “An update on Ray J’s health.”

About 3 minutes into the livestream, Norwood noted that she wanted to come on and “clear up things regarding Ray.”

“… It’s just gotten out of hand when someone thinks that my son is faking his health, or [that] it’s a hoax, or [that] he’s just playing around [and] he’s not really serious about it,” Norwood noted. “[But] I’d just like to get something clear: I’m the type of mother that there’s not much I don’t know about my children… so for all of you that have been genuinely concerned about him… I want to say I thank you very much for that because it takes multiple prayers and thoughts for things to change.”

Norwood went on to explain that in January, Ray was taken to the hospital for what initially appeared to be a case of pneumonia. However, upon further examination, the hospital held the singer, and during his time there, he experienced “severe chest pain.” Ultimately, an angiogram was performed on the singer, and it was determined that he had “cardiomyopathy.” Per Mayo Clinic, it is heart disease that causes “the heart to have a harder time pumping blood to the rest of the body, which can lead to symptoms of heart failure.”

Norwood confirmed that “blood flow was 15-20% to his heart,” and was “life-threatening.” Additionally, she noted that her son “can portray many characters.” However, she asserted that he has been placed on multiple medications for his condition.

“It has been told to him that if he does not take his medication, if he does not take medical advice, and if he doesn’t rest and stay stress-free… then he has a life-threatening situation,” Norwood explained, noting that her son has to embrace “new limitations” in his roles and lifestyle. “And that’s where we are. [But] my biggest worry is if he’s taking his medication exactly like he’s supposed to be because he has complained that those medications make him tired and make him eat more than he ever has before.”

Ultimately, Norwood concluded her live by asserting that Ray is not faking his condition, or performing a “hoax.” He’s just “trying to adjust to a condition that he has.”

Watch her full livestream below.

More On What Was Recently Shared About Ray J’s Health

As The Shade Room previously reported, in January, TMZ reported that Ray was admitted to a Las Vegas hospital. As Norwood noted, the outlet initially believed the singer was there for pneumonia. However, once Ray was released, he revealed that his heart was not fully functioning and that doctors allegedly told him he had months to live.

Ray J reveals his heart is only operating at 25%, with doctors giving him a short time to live. He says his heart is mostly black: ‘I f***ed my shit up.’ pic.twitter.com/frWDoDQEyu

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Then, in February, footage showed Ray performing with what appeared to be blood running from his eyes and a chest patch, per The Shade Room.

Subsequently, a photographer made headlines for saying Ray J was faking his condition, per The Shade Room. However, his manager, Melinda Santiago, responded to the claim via a statement given to Entertainment Weekly.

“The bottom line is Ray J has been in and out of the hospital dealing with health and heart issues. That is a fact. Another fact is that the meds that Ray is on have some side effects. It’s absurd that a local videographer (not our team) would want to clout chase for 5 min of fame off of Ray J’s name, and play about Ray being sick is sick in itself,” Santiago reportedly asserted.

Months Before Setting The Record Straight, Sonja Norwood Clapped Back At Someone Who Said She “Raised A Terrible Son”

Last year, Sonja Norwood made headlines when she clapped back at an internet user who told her she “raised a terrible son.” As The Shade Room previously reported, around late November, Norwood took to Facebook, writing, “I hope each of you had a grateful Thanksgiving. The day started a little rough, but we had a good family Thanksgiving. Love ya’ll, we’re back on the road tomorrow. Detroit! See ya soon!#familyfirst #TheBoyIsMineTour”

Subsequently, a Facebook user slid into the comment section of her post, writing, “You raised a terrible son. Happy Holidays!”

However, Norwood didn’t let the comment go unnoticed or unchecked.

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Science fiction experienced a boom in the 1990s, thanks to groundbreaking films like The Matrix and Gattaca. Television wasn’t far behind either, as Babylon 5 would reshape long-form storytelling while Stargate SG-1 launched an entire franchise that’s still going to this day. For all the sci-fi on screens, one series strangely flew under the radar, and that was TekWar. TekWar boasts one of the most impressive pedigrees among sci-fi franchises, as it was co-created by Star Trek legend William Shatner. It also managed to build quite an incredible foundation that’s ripe for a reboot.

TekWar began life as a series of novels, with Shatner creating the concept and Ron Goulart putting words to paper. It takes place in the 22nd century, where a new addiction has taken hold in the form of “tek”: a microchip that lets its users plug into a highly addictive virtual reality world. Former detective Jake Cardigan, who was placed in cryogenic prison after being framed for dealing tek, is thawed out to deal with a series of tek-based crimes. Eventually, TekWar made the jump to television with four TV movies and a series, but that was only the beginning, as Shatner attempted to launch the next big sci-fi hit.

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William Shatner Turned ‘TekWar’ Into a Long-Lasting Franchise

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The genesis for TekWar happened during the tumultuous production of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. When the Writers’ Guild of America went on strike in 1988, Shatner wrote the notes that served as the backbone of TekWar‘s universe. “I found out how to write the books as I wrote them,” Shatner confessed in an interview, even though it was Goulart who wrote nearly all of the TekWar novels. While he might not have had an eye for writing novels, Shatner definitely knew marketing and hit talk shows and magazines with promos, most of which featured his face plastered across the material. It’s pretty clear that Shatner envisioned himself having the same kind of creative influence as Gene Roddenberry.

Shatner’s shameless self-promotion worked, as TekWar became a multimedia franchise. Not only were there TV films and an entire television series, but also a TekWar video game (which was critically panned) and even a comic book series, TekWorld. Eventually, the TekWar franchise would fade into memory, as it was outshone by other cyberpunk media — especially as science fiction fans began to discover Ghost in the Shell and Akira. That’s not even getting into the fact that Star Trek made a major comeback with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. While most people know William Shatner as James T. Kirk or even T.J. Hooker, they probably haven’t heard of TekWorld, but that could change.

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‘TekWar’ Could Work Well In Today’s Landscape

The time is ripe for TekWorld to make a comeback, especially with the advances in technology. Given the parallels that other franchises have made between social media and addiction, it wouldn’t be hard to reimagine tek as a world where people grow addicted to parasocial bonds and commit crimes. While William Shatner has said that he’d like to return to the role of Captain Kirk, if he finds the right cast and crew, he could take a second stab at making TekWar a franchise. This time around, his name is definitely big enough to sell the idea of a sci-fi franchise.

Ironically, TekWar did attempt a return as an animated series in 2021. Shatner was meant to produce the revival, which would have featured Star Wars: The Clone Wars writer Matt Michnovetz as a showrunner. While news about the TekWar animated series has ground to a halt, Shatner should definitely revisit the project, as adult animation has taken leaps and bounds over the years. It could also help TekWar stand out in a crowded sci-fi landscape and avoid the mistakes that the first edition of the franchise made. 30 years may have passed, but TekWar is definitely ripe for a revival.

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Real Housewives of New York City fans were shocked by the news that Carole Radziwill is returning to the show — and so was her former costar Dorinda Medley.

“I’m surprised I knew nothing about it, and we’re quite close,” Dorinda, 61, said during the Monday, March 2, episode of her Reality Checked show on SiriusXM. “So she kept it very — her cards very close to her chest.”

Bravo announced earlier on Monday that Carole, 62, will be returning to RHONY as a “friend” of the Housewives for season 16 alongside Jessel Taank, Erin Lichy and Sai De Silva. She previously starred on the series for five seasons from 2012 to 2018.

“I don’t know if she knows any of the girls,” Dorinda continued, adding that she thinks Carole could be a good “bridge” between the original and newer versions of RHONY. “I think that Carole’s just a New York character, and she’s very close to Andy [Cohen] and she had such a great comeback on Watch What Happens Live and BravoCon, and I think the show needs a character, something to sort of unify it back to the old a little bit.”

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The Traitors alum went on to say that she was also “surprised” by the fact that Carole will only be a “friend” rather than a main cast member.

“I think she should be full-time,” Dorinda explained. “But a ‘friend of,’ that’s too little. She should be … I don’t know if I could as a full-time Housewife go back and be a ‘friend of’ with these new girls.”

In addition to Carole’s return, Bravo announced on Monday that three new Housewives will join the RHONY season 16 cast: Hailey Glassman, Erika Hammond and Daisy Toye.

The news comes after Bravo rebooted RHONY with an all-new cast following season 13. Brynn Whitfield, Ubah Hassan and Jenna Lyons, who appeared in season 14, will not be returning, and neither will Racquel Chevremont, who joined in season 15.

Carole’s return came as a particular surprise to Housewives fans because of her rocky history with Andy, 57. While the two were originally close, their dynamic changed in 2018 when she argued he was supporting Bethenny Frankel over her at the season 10 reunion.

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Years later, Andy said wasn’t impressed with how Carole announced her exit from RHONY, telling Not All Diamonds and Rosé author Dave Quinn, “She is not the person I used to know.”

Last year, however, the pair seemingly squashed their beef when Carole joined Andy for an episode of WWHL. Three months later, she appeared at BravoCon.

Despite all that, Dorinda said on Monday she still didn’t think Carole would return to the Bravo fold in an official capacity. “I didn’t see that coming because, you know, after she left, she didn’t seem to like it anymore. You know what I mean?” she told cohost Kiki Monique and guest Kate Chastain.

Dorinda added that she hadn’t spoken to Carole since the news broke and found out when everyone else did.

“I mean, if she wanted to tell me, she would tell me, right? … Someone else texted,” Dorinda explained. “I think it’s going to be interesting to see because the girls are a lot younger. And it’s a different world than the world she was [in]. She really kind of knew us. But I just don’t know. I don’t know the new show anymore.”

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As a kid, when you’re still learning how to carry yourself like a decent human being, there are expected detours along the way. You hear your first sexually or racially charged joke and decide whether that’s the kind of humor you want to adopt as you continue developing your personality. Some people will say there’s a time and a place for jokes relegated to internet edgelords, while others lean hard into shock value as a way to get attention, for better or worse.

2013’s InAPPropriate Comedy is that internet edgelord personality in movie form, but calling it a “movie” in the traditional sense is generous if I’m being honest. A loosely connected compilation of deliberately offensive material clocking in at 83 minutes, InAPPropriate Comedy plays like your teenage cousin who has an affinity for using gamer words in regular conversation and can’t quite find the off switch.

Here’s the thing about movies like InAPPropriate Comedy. Some of the bits on their own are hilarious in small doses. Since we’re dealing with a rapid-fire collection of sketches all hinging on generating the most extreme reactions possible, the jokes wear out their welcome almost as soon as you hear the first punchline. It’s exhausting, but there are standout moments that make for great, shareable clips you’ll want to send to the group chat with your old college friends that your wife doesn’t know about.

In Poor Taste And Bad Faith

Every single bit in InAPPropriate Comedy is meant to make you look over your shoulder, but you should also know better than to blare this one through your iPhone speakers in public. The framing device lets you know exactly what kind of humor you’re getting into when writer-director Vince Offer is found hiding beneath a sewer grate, looking up Lindsay Lohan’s skirt as she does her best Marilyn Monroe impersonation. From there, he opens his tablet and clicks through various offensive apps that lead into the film’s recurring sketches.

The sketches mostly occupy racial and sexual territory, with jokes relying on lowest-common-denominator humor you’d expect from a sixth-grade lunch table. We’re introduced to Flirty Harry (Adrien Brody), a hard-boiled detective in San Francisco who speaks exclusively in homoerotic puns. Everybody he encounters is baffled because there’s no way anyone could rattle off that many out-of-pocket non sequiturs without knowing exactly what they’re doing. 

Just as frequent in InAPPropriate Comedy is an urban-tinged Jackass parody called “Blackass.” No further explanation is really needed, but here’s the thing: if you’re parodying something that’s already funny on its own, there’s not much room left to escalate.

InAPPropriate Comedy also spends time on bits like “The Porno Review,” featuring J.D. (Rob Schneider), Harriet (Michelle Rodriguez), and Bob (Jonathan Spencer), who review adult films in the style of At the Movies. There are genuinely funny moments here, mostly because of how self-serious J.D. and Harriet are, while Bob silently admires the films in the background, in the filthiest way possible.

Most deliberately upsetting is Ari Shaffir’s recurring segment, “The Amazing Racist,” in which he walks around town being aggressively, you guessed it, racist. That’s the joke. Nobody is safe from Ari, who stages his own unsanctioned immigration sting operations and shows up unannounced at Jewish markets with anti-Semitic petitions, and that’s just the stuff I’m willing to repeat here.

Edgy For The Sake Of Being Edgy

InAPPropriate Comedy does exactly what it sets out to do across its segments, committing to as much shock value as it can cram into a single film. Personally, I’m not super offended by it because, like I said, these are the kinds of jokes you overhear on the schoolyard when you’re still figuring out how to carry yourself, or how not to. It also looks like a lot of fun was had during production, and everyone seems to be in on the joke, even those depicted as being punched down on.

Marketed as an “equal opportunity offender” upon release, InAPPropriate Comedy lives up to that promise, but the promise itself isn’t all that impressive.

Outside of the “Flirty Harry” sketches, which see Adrien Brody performing so far against type that you can’t help but appreciate the commitment, the humor is so relentlessly low-brow that you’re better off logging onto 4chan for your daily dose of crude humor. At least there, you can log off once you’ve had your fill of filth and move on with your day.

I’m not mad at InAPPropriate Comedy, I’m just disappointed. Offensive humor isn’t inherently bad, but films like this lack the cleverness needed to actually land in any meaningful way. You might let out a wry chuckle here and there, but it takes a special kind of person to really slap their knee and guffaw along with every bit.

As of this writing, InAPPropriate Comedy is streaming free on Tubi.

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Game lovers have a lot to look forward to over the next year and beyond, thanks to an onslaught of adaptations that will take their favorite titles and adapt them into on-screen form. While 2025 closed out with Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, 2026 will see the arrival of Zach Cregger’s unique take on the Resident Evil franchise, and beyond that, Prime Video is busy chipping away at a live-action God of War project. In the midst of the excitement about the aforementioned productions, one might have slipped under the radar for some, and it’s already shaping up to be one of the most celebrated game-to-cinema makeovers that we’ve ever seen. Helmed by Genki Kawamura, Exit 8 serves as a theatrical adaptation of the fan-favorite 2023 video game that hailed from Kotake Create. Today, as part of Collider’s Exclusive Preview event, we’ve got a fresh look at the movie that will soon make its North American debut after a promising run in Japan late last summer.

Starring Kazunari Ninomiya (Last Samurai Standing), Exit 8 follows one man’s struggle to make it home alive after his everyday run-of-the-mill, mundane commute is flipped upside down and turned into a life-or-death situation. Searching for the titular door, the protagonist, known only as The Lost Man (Ninomiya), is given a multitude of rules and faced with hurdles on his journey to find a way out. Filling out the call sheet alongside Ninomiya is a lineup that includes Yamato Kochi (Hitman from Today), Nana Komatsu (The World of Kanako), Kotone Hanase (A Far Shore), and Naru Asanuma (The Night After the Divorce).

Capturing the immense panic and terror of The Lost Man’s hopeless situation, our exclusive new look at Exit 8 perfectly sets the tone for the feature. Looking at something in front of him that we can’t see, The Lost Man appears absolutely mortified in the image with his eyes bulging and fear washing over his face. Behind him, a little boy stands calmly against a tiled subway wall that appears to be dripping with blood.

NEON Celebrates Its First Video Game Adaptation with ‘Exit 8’

With a string of smash hits over the last few years that include Academy Award favorite Anora and horror standout Longlegs, NEON has been at the top of its game as a production studio. The company will handle the distribution of Exit 8 in the United States, making it the first video game adaptation to hail from the longtime favorite indie studio.

Check out our exclusive new shot from Exit 8 above and see it in cinemas in the United States on April 10. Stay tuned for more to come from Collider’s Exclusive Preview event.

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