{"id":16752,"date":"2012-09-13T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16752"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:53:09","slug":"jennifer-hudson-forgives-killer-of-her-mother-brother-and-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16752","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson Forgives Killer Of Her Mother, Brother And Nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award winner <strong>Jennifer Hudson<\/strong> says she can forgive (but won\u2019t forget) the murderer of her mother, brother and young nephew: <strong>William Balfour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong>, Hudson says that Balfour\u2019s upbringing is more to blame for his actions than anything else. \u201cI\u2019m not letting him off the hook for anything,\u201d said <strong>Hudson<\/strong>, adding \u201cI feel like, for the most part, it\u2019s not his fault. It\u2019s what he was taught. How he was brought up. We tried to offer love, but he was so far gone, he couldn\u2019t even see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month after her brother-in-law, <strong>William Balfour<\/strong>, was convicted of murdering her 57-year-old mother,<strong> Darnell Donerson<\/strong>, her 29-year-old brother, <strong>Jason Hudson<\/strong>, and her 7-year-old nephew, <strong>Julian King<\/strong>, on October 24, 2008, the Academy Award winner shared her grief during an appearance on September 9 episode of Oprah\u2019s Next Chapter.<\/p>\n<p>On July 24, <strong>Balfour,<\/strong> 31, was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of ever being paroled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson says she can forgive (but won\u2019t forget) the murderer of her mother, brother and young nephew: William Balfour. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Hudson says that Balfour\u2019s upbringing is more to blame for his actions than anything else. \u201cI\u2019m not letting him off the hook for anything,\u201d said Hudson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}