Although she hasn’t spoken about the event since it happened, Jennifer Hudson opens up about the 2008 murder of her mother mother Darnell, brother Jason and nephew Julian.
“It’s all a blur, it was surreal,” she said. “It was like I was outside of myself.”
She just stayed in seclusion.
“For almost two weeks straight . . . [I was] inside one room with just family and friends coming in and out. I prayed when I’d get up in the morning and prayed before I laid down at night,” she added.
But it was her performance at the 2009 Grammys, singing You Pulled Me Through, that gave her strength.
Hudson said:
“I was definitely thinking of my family when I was singing that song. I could hear my brother in my head, like, ‘Jennifer, you need to kill this, you need to get up and do it.’ I knew he would be disappointed if I didn’t do it justice.
I feel like I’ve lived about three or four different lives.
My son “reminds me of my nephew. In so many ways I channel her because she was such a great mom. Little David “makes me feel like the most special person on earth. I want him to get the same love and the same upbringing my mother gave us.”
She’s been through so much! Stay strong, bb.
[Image via WENN.]
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