Jennifer Hudson has opened up about learning that her dad fathered 27 children, admitting that she hasn’t met all of her siblings yet.
The Spotlight singer, 42, lifted the lid on her family life in a new podcast, sharing the shocking moment that she had a few more brothers and sisters than she bargained for.
Appearing on the latest episode of Your Mama’s Kitchen on Audible, the EGOT-winner unpacked her complicated family tree with host Michele Norris.
‘Your father had a big personality, and you went – with your siblings – and found him at some point, and found that you had a lot more siblings?,’ the presenter began.
‘Yeah, it’s a lot of us. Apparently he had 27 children. That’s a lot of children,’ Jennifer quipped.
‘I’ve never met all of them but that’s the thing, I’m a family person. So, when I turned 16, I’m like, I want to go find Sam – it’s what we called him – and I want to meet all my siblings.
‘Because it was my dream to have all of us at this grand Thanksgiving or Christmas table, and we all sit and eat together. That was my goal at 16.’
The Dreamgirls actress explained that she – along with her late siblings, Julia and Jason – were told about their extended family at a young age, and set about trying to find them.
‘That’s what we were always told,’ she continued. ‘We found quite a few of us – 11 girls and 17 boys, I think. Something like that.
‘We met maybe six others, six or seven others. I’m the youngest of all of them.’
Jennifer explained that her dad’s side of the family helped to co-ordinate a meeting between some of the family.
‘It was my father who told,’ she continued. ‘When my grandmother on his side passed, my siblings over there were like, “Y’all got a sister that can really sing, you should meet her.”
‘Eventually we all came together.’
The superstar is mom to son David Daniel Otunga Jr, who she shares with ex-fiancé David Otunga.
The former couple welcomed the teenager in 2009, after keeping their baby news a secret.
They went their separate ways in 2017 after a decade together – she has since been linked to fellow musician Common, and previously branded him a ‘beautiful man’ when asked about the speculation.
‘Rumors say a lot of things,’ she said last year. ‘But he’s a beautiful man, I will give you that.’
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