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.”
The singer’s Dreamgirls co-star, Anika Noni Rose, thinks that Jennifer Hudson will be an amazing mother. Anika Noni Rose said the following about how Jennifer Hudson is going to cope with motherhood: “She will be a great, amazing and loving mom. Having seen her with babies myself, that baby of hers is going to have a good time and be much loved. She loves babies and now that she going to be a mother herself this experience is going to be fun and rewarding for her. She will have no problems taking on the responsibilities.” Why does everybody assume that to be a great parent you just have to like babies? They don’t stay babies forever and it’s not like the hardest part is when they are babies. Kids growing up is only the beginning of the nightmare and only afterwards we’ll see just how good a mother Jennifer Hudson is going to be.