Jennifer Hudson Cries On The Stand In Family Murder Trial, Warned Sister ‘Not To Marry William’
April 23 2012, Published 6:10 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Jennifer Hudson bravely took the stand on Monday to testify in the murder trial of the man who is charged with killing her mother, brother and nephew.
Dressed all in black with her hair pulled back in a somber style, the Oscar winner revealed how she had warned her sister not to marry William Balfour.
“I would tell Julia over and over again not to marry William,” Hudson, 30, told the Chicago courtroom on the first day of testimony in the trial, reported the Chicago Sun Times.
“None of us; myself, my mother, or my brother, we did not like how he treated her and I didn’t like how he treated my nephew.”
Jennifer’s candid revelation was met with numerous objections from the defense, which Judge Charles Burns sustained.
Breaking Celebrity News was first to report that Jennifer would be called as a star key witness in the trial.
Balfour faces three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and home invasion in the deaths of Jennifer's and Julia's mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, 57; brother Jason Hudson, 29; and Julia's son Julian King, 7, on October 24, 2008.
The former American Idol star went on to reveal the depth of her relationship with her mother, telling the court they had slept in the same bed until she was 16 and continued to talk every day after that.
She realized something was terribly wrong the morning after the bodies were found when she wok