{"id":1127,"date":"2011-11-28T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/11\/%e2%80%98my-fiance-saved-my-life%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:34:36","slug":"my-fiance-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/28\/my-fiance-saved-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Fiance Saved My Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/323djennifer_hudson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33019\" title=\"jennifer_hudson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/323djennifer_hudson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Hudson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jennifer Hudson opens up about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/10\/29\/hudson.shootings\/index.html?iref=allsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tragic 2008 murder of her mother, brother and nephew<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebonyjet.com\/Templates\/DetailsView.aspx?id=19648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December\/January issue of Ebony<\/a>, revealing that if it weren\u2019t for her fianc\u00e9 David Otunga, she might not be alive today.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Oscar winner tells the magazine that it was because of wrestler Otunga, whom she had baby David Daniel Jr. with in 2009, that she wasn\u2019t at home at the time of the killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the things that saved my life, because I could have been home with my mom then,\u201d Hudson tells Ebony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20548081,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via People<\/a>. \u201c[Otunga] wanted me to come out to Florida with him instead of going to Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did fly out to see him, and \u201cthat\u2019s why I\u2019m still here,\u201d Hudson continued. \u201cI\u2019ve never said that before, and I can\u2019t believe I just said that now. But I didn\u2019t know. He was just like, \u2018I\u2019m going to this wrestling thing, it\u2019s in Tampa. I\u2019m going out there now, so you can come out there and see me versus going home.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hudson has been largely silent on the murders of her family members, but she did discuss the tragedy in a <a href=\"http:\/\/marquee.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/06\/29\/jennifer-hudson-i-was-secluded-from-everything\/?iref=allsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 episode of VH1\u2032s \u2018Behind the Music,\u2019<\/a> explaining that her slain relatives still had a strong presence in her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother drives me in my music, my son reminds me of my nephew,\u201d she said, \u201cand being a mother reminds me of my mother.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Hudson opens up about the tragic 2008 murder of her mother, brother and nephew in the December\/January issue of Ebony , revealing that if it weren\u2019t for her fianc\u00e9 David Otunga, she might not be alive today. The 30-year-old Oscar winner tells the magazine that it was because of wrestler Otunga, whom she had baby David Daniel Jr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018My Fiance Saved My Life\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/28\/my-fiance-saved-my-life\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018My Fiance Saved My Life\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Hudson opens up about the tragic 2008 murder of her mother, brother and nephew in the December\/January issue of Ebony , revealing that if it weren\u2019t for her fianc\u00e9 David Otunga, she might not be alive today. 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