For the first time, Jennifer Hudson opened up about the 2008 murders of her mother, brother and nephew in VH1’s Behind the Music Monday night.
“It’s all a blur, it was surreal, ” she said in the special, “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, ” she said “I prayed when I’d get up in the morning and prayed before I laid down at night.”
Read more at People.
After the jump, watch Jennifer talk about that painful time and about her return to the spotlight at the 2009 Grammys where she sang a powerful and moving version of Whitney Houston’s “You Pulled Me Through.”
“I was definitely thinking of my family when I was singing that song, ” she said. “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.”
Check your local listings to catch a repeat of Jennifer Hudson: Behind the Music on VH1.
Video after the JUMP…
