She’s kept quiet about the brutal 2008 murders of her mother Darnell, brother Jason and nephew Julian.
Now, Jennifer Hudson is finally speaking out.
“It’s all a blur, it was surreal,” she says on VH1′s Behind the Music: Jennifer Hudson on Monday night, June 28. “It was like I was outside of myself.”
As her very public nightmare unfolded, the Oscar-winning actress says she went into seclusion.
“For almost two weeks straight … [I was] inside one room with just family and friends coming in and out,” she says. “I prayed when I’d get up in the morning and prayed before I laid down at night.”
Hudson barely addressed the murders until the 2009 Grammys, where she performed a poignant, moving rendition of “You Pulled Me Through.”
“I was definitely thinking of my family when I was singing that song,” she says. “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.”
Today, “I feel like I’ve lived about three or four different lives,” she says, adding that her 11-month-old son David (with her fiance David Otunga) has helped her heal.
Little David, “reminds me of my nephew,” says Hudson, and he also helps her remember her mother. “In so many ways I channel her because she was such a great mom.”
Her son, she adds, “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.”
I can’t even imagine how she managed to deal with this tragedy. Losing one family member would be hard enough, but three at once?
source: Jennifer Hudson: Family Murders ‘All a Blur’ [who]
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It’s been a couple of months since the untimely death of Brittany Murphy but it has now been announced that she has left everything to her mother, Sharon Murphy, in her will.
On top of leaving everything to her mother, Brittany’s husband Simon Monjack said that she left him out of the will.
TMZ claim that years before Brittany got married to Simon she wrote up a handwritten will leaving everything to Sharon. That was then stored in her manager’s safe, but after she got married she had a formal will and trust drafted up. Again she left everything to her mother along with a message saying “I am married to Simon Monjack who I have intentionally left out of this will.”
Now before everyone gets their panties in a knot, she probably left him out of her will because she has always supported her mother and because he makes his own money.
Simon also says that Sharon has put the house up for sale for $7.25 million and that when the house is sold both her and Sharon are going to move to New York.
source: Brittany Murphy’s House Up for Sale [TMZ]
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What a tragedy. Most of us know Zelda Rubinstein as Tangina Barrons from the “Poltergeist” movies, but the iconic actress is nearing the end of her days with us.
Zelda was taken off of life support after being hospitalized for over a month. She is said to be in and out of consciousness after her lungs and both kidneys are failing her.
Earlier in the year, Zelda took time out to speak to “The Advocate” about her time as “Mother” in the fight against AIDS. In 1984, Zelda was asked to play the “Mother” role, telling her “sons” to wear condoms.
Check out her interview:
No amount of words can justify her spark. Thank you Zelda for bringing Tangina to life and for being a “Mother”. You will be sorely missed.
It has been said that she won’t have long until the end….
source: Actress, Activist Rubinstein in Failing Health – [advocate]
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The other day I wrote about this supposed sex tape that is “so graphic” that TMZ won’t release it (meaning they don’t want to get sued), and now the plot has thickened.
TMZ has reported that Prejean’s mother was present when the Miss California lawyers blackmailed convinced Carrie to drop her lawsuits against them after they stripped her of her crown. I’m betting Thanksgiving will be a bit uncomfortable this year.
TMZ states:
…Carrie’s mom was in shock — instantly turning sheet white as she watched her daughter give herself a hand.
…it took all of 15 seconds for Carrie to drop her $1 million demand from the Pageant people after the XXX tape was played.
“Give herself a hand”… very subtle, TMZ. I would’ve been more classy about it and said something like “Carrie’s mom freaked the hell out as she watched her daughter diddle herself while butt naked, wearing a pageant crown and humming the National Anthem.”
But that’s just what I like to believe is on the tape.
source: Carrie Prejean’s Mother Saw the Sex Tape [TMZ]
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Spot the difference: Janet, left, has spent $15,000 on plastic surgery to look like her daughter, Jane, right
Hardly surprising, as both weigh in at 8st and, save for a couple of inches in height (at 5ft 6in, Jane is two inches taller) and different eye colours (Jane’s are brown, Janet’s are blue) they are virtually identical.
But Janet and Jane are not twins. They aren’t even sisters. They are mother and daughter. And, in what many will see as a depressing indictment of today’s youth-obsessed society, Janet confesses to having spent more than $15,000 on plastic surgery in a desperate effort to bridge the 22-year age gap between herself and her daughter.
In this image-conscious age, it is a bittersweet moment for many mothers to confront the fact that their daughter’s beauty eclipses her own.
It is a rite of passage that most women, while far from thrilled, are pragmatic enough to accept as a part of life.
But not 50-year-old Janet. She views the small matter of being in her sixth decade as a mere technicality.
She is amused and proud that friends jokingly refer to her and her daughter as Paris and Chantelle after the platinum blonde socialite and the equally platinum former Celebrity Big Brother contestant.
Some might see this as empowering for a woman who is well into middle age. Others might take the view that it is contrary to the laws of Mother Nature – not that Janet has much truck with her anyway.
‘Who wouldn’t want to look like my daughter?’
As she told the Mail this week: ‘It might sound barmy that I had cosmetic surgery to look like my daughter, but she’s gorgeous. Who wouldn’t want to look like her?
‘The way I see it is that she got her looks from me in the first place – mine have just faded with age.
‘Seeing how attractive Jane is made me want to get my looks back. Now instead of mum and daughter we look more like twins. I had good genes and good skin, but I needed a helping hand to make me feel better about myself.’
Certainly Janet wasn’t always such a head-turner. Just a few years ago, she was a size 14 redhead and felt, she says, dowdy and unattractive.
Not, she insists, that she was ever vain. ‘I didn’t have time for vanity in my 20s as I was too busy bringing up Jane and her brother, Pete,’ she says.
‘I didn’t pay much attention to myself.’
That changed as she entered her 30s and became increasingly disconsolate with her changing figure.
‘Like any woman who’s had children, gravity had started to take its toll on my breasts,’ she says.
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Angelina Jolie broke down in tears at a London press conference yesterday as she paid tribute to her late mother.
The Oscar-winning actress grew teary-eyed as she recalled how difficult she found it to play a mother in her latest film The Changeling, which was filmed shortly after her mum Marcheline Bertrand died in January 2007.
Fighting back the tears, Angelina said:
“Her name was Marcheline, but we used to call her Marshmallow, as a joke, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world.
She was really sweet and was never angry – she couldn’t swear to save her life. But when it came to her kids, she was really fierce and so this (film) is very much her, her story.
She was the woman I related to, who had that elegance and strength for knowing what was right.”
Angelina and her partner Brad Pitt flew in from the U.S. to the capital this week to promote her latest film. It appeared the strain of their busy schedule and roles as parents to six children were getting to the glamorous couple, who looked visibly tired last night.
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