A singer-songwriter and BRIT Award nominee has shared a health update from hospital after being hit by a car and revealed the dismissive reaction of friends
British pop star Grace Barker, professionally known as Gracey, has sparked concern amongst fans after sharing pictures of a recent hospital visit. The singer, who was nominated for a BRIT Award, was rushed to A&E after being hit by a car.
The 27-year-old was nominated for Best British Single for her track Don’t Need Love at the 2021 BRIT Awards. She has continued to release music since then, but has now found herself in hospital. Sharing a selfie from a hospital bed on her Instagram, Gracey revealed that her right foot and leg had to be bandaged up.
In the caption, she joked that this was “absolutely not what I meant by I want a hit”. Fans flooded the comments with get well messages, including DJ Alex Chapman who said: “Omg my poor queen!!! Sending u healing vibes.”
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However, in the post, Gracey also revealed that friends had a less concerned response. Sharing a screenshot of text messages, the singer revealed that when she told one friend that she got hit by a car, that friend said: “Sorry, thank GOD you’re alive but also this is the funniest message ever.”
Gracey also took to TikTok to share how she was doing. She uploaded a video showing her using crutches and wrote over the video “got hit by a car x”. In the caption, she joked: “diva down!”
Again, fans rushed to ask the singer if she was okay. One wrote: “DIVA NO!!! Are u ok? X” Another said they were “speechless” and a third said they were “just so glad you are okay and safe”.
Professionally, Gracey has faced a tough couple of years. After her BRIT nomination and supporting Anne-Marie on tour, she split from her record label Polydor in 2023. Since then she has been independent, but has now signed with a new indie label Glassnote.
In an interview with Principle magazine, she shared that it was “difficult” to be an independent artist, especially in pop. “It is so difficult being independent.
“It’s hard when you are someone like that who doesn’t have loads of money to put into a project, especially being a pop girl. It’s expensive and you want to pay your team and you want to pay everyone correctly and you wanna do it right.
“And it’s really hard to keep up with the bank accounts of a major label. For anyone that would be reading this, that’s difficult to do. I just want to validate that because I think it’s really unspoken about how you’ve gotta do everything yourself. You’re doing TikTok three times a day, you’re in the studio.”
She added that you have to absolutely love music to be an independent artist because if you don’t it’s “harrowing”. “If you don’t f***ing love it and you don’t really really care about your music, maybe don’t do it because it is really quite harrowing on days where you’re like, ‘Oh, okay, cool. That got one view.’” She also continued to say that it was worth it for her, because she got to be in control. “But, it feels glorious to be in control.”
Source: Mirror
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