Corinne Bailey Rae has reflected on her husband's demise nearly two decades later. 17 years after Jason Rae overdosed at the age of 31, Corinne Bailey Rae, 46, spoke to Billboard about how the incident shaped her second album, The Sea, which came out in 2010. The Put Your Records On hitmaker married Rae when she was 22 in 2001. The two met at a jazz club, the Daily Mail has reported, and they were married for seven years. Rae was a "naive user" of methadone and alcohol, which is a heroin substitute medication. Corinne Bailey Rae opens up about remarrying after losing her first husband to an accidental overdose: Read more Corinne Bailey Rae's second album, which came out two years after her husband died, chronicled her journey through grief and bereavement. “When I look back at [debut LP Corinne Bailey Rae], it’s on the other side of… not a wall, but a divide between my two adult lives,” she told Billboard. “That moment [Jason’s death] felt like the end of what that first album term was.” She added, “I felt like my life was divided between the before and after of that." Back in 2016, she spoke to People Magazine about how she found hope and healing after Rae's accidental overdose: “When you’re in a relationship with someone, it’s so much about tearing down the walls between you two that you sort of confuse what is you and what is them,” she said. “When you lose them, you question: ‘What is left of me?’” Corinne Bailey Rae continued, “There was no specific turning point. Imagine silence, and then slowly the volume gets turned back up on life.”She shared that she confided in Yoko Ono, who lost John Lennon when he was assassinated in 1980, for support. “I’d see interviews of people who’d been widowed. I’d be looking at the picture of, like Yoko Ono, thinking, ‘Does she look happy?’ And I’d look and think, ‘She does; she looks happy.’ Just the possibility that I could, in some distant point, be happy meant a big deal to me.”In October 2009, Corinne Bailey Rae spoke to The Guardian about a track she wrote called I'd Do It All Again. She told the outlet she penned it after an argument with her late husband, regarding it as an ode to her enduring love for him. "It was written literally just after me and Jason had this massive disagreement, a big argument, a bad one," she says now, faltering. "Almost as he was leaving the room, I just sat down and wrote it. It's just about how I felt about him at that time. Even right in the middle of the worst times, I remember thinking that I would choose this exact life again, that I would do it all again. It was me saying, I'm not wishing myself out of this situation. I'm 100% committed to this person. I don't have any regrets about this relationship even though there are all these difficult times."Reflecting on his sudden demise, Corinne Bailey Rae told the outlet: "He was impulsive, I guess. He liked to have a drink, have fun. It could easily have turned out to be one of those stupid, drunken things you do that you get to talk about afterwards – 'You'd never guess what I did when I was pissed?' – that sort of thing. It's unbelievable that this one didn't turn out like that, that this was the drunken, curious thing that went wrong." Corinne Bailey Rae remarried in 2013. She tied the knot with producer Steve Brown, whom she spoke to People Magazine about. “If you aren’t comparing the person you meet to the person you lost – and that’s a definite stage – you’re not thinking about what has come before, you’re just thinking about the newness,” she noted. “I knew [Steve] as a friend for so long, and I’d gotten to know his family really well. So once we were really ready, I felt that I could just dive deep into it." In her latest interview with Billboard, Corinne Bailey Rae confirmed that she has new music in the works, and is "excited" to "work out what the sound and direction is, what I want to say and who it’s going to be with." Stay tuned to SoapCentral for more.