However, prosecutors haven’t yet disclosed whether Hudson will actually testify at William Balfour’s trial that is slated to begin April 9th, 2012.
Balfour was the estranged husband of Hudson’s sister, Julia. He is accused of killing Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew in 2008. Hudson mother and brother bodies were found dead in the family’s home on Chicago’s South and her nephew’s body was found days later in a vehicle on the city’s West Side.
Hudson has rarely spoken in public about the triple slayings and has never addressed the suspect by name or discussed his history with her family.
Prosecutors haven’t yet disclosed if Jennifer Hudson will be called to testify at the trial but have listed her on their witness list. The trial is scheduled to begin April 9, though testimony wouldn’t begin until two weeks later.
When Jennifer Hudson got the call that her mother and brother had been killed and her nephew was missing, she was in Miami with her fiance, lawyer-turned-professional wrestler David Otunga. She flew immediately to Chicago and met with police at the Cook County medical examiner’s office early the next day to help identify the bodies.
In one of her only interviews about the case, Hudson told Ebony magazine that Otunga had asked her at the last minute to join him for a big match. She had instead planned to go to Chicago for a planned visit with her mother.
“That’s one of the things that saved my life,” she told the magazine for its December/January issue. “I flew out to see him. That’s why I’m still here
Since the killings, Jennifer Hudson’s stardom has soared after her Oscar win for “Dreamgirls.” She garnered a Grammy for her latest album, wrote a book about her dramatic weight loss and became a celebrity spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.
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