Although she hasn’t spoken about the tragic event since it happened, Jennifer Hudson opened up about the 2008 murders of her mother, brother and nephew on VH1’s ‘Behind the Music’. The R&B singer said “It’s all a blur, it was surreal. It was like I was outside of myself. 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.” Jennifer said that it was her performance at the 2009 Grammys, singing ‘You Pulled Me Through’, that gave her strength. She explained “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.”
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