Jennifer Hudson is getting candid about a family discovery she made when she was younger, and her efforts to get in touch with her many siblings. The singer recently appeared on the podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen: Conversations from the Heart of the Home , where she spoke with host Michele Norris about growing up without knowing her father, and coming to learn a surprising secret about him. Norris asked about how, when she was a teenager, she and a number of her siblings went to find their father, Samuel Simpson, and discovered that they had many more half-siblings than they ever realized.
"Yes, [there are] a lot of us. Apparently he had 27 children," Hudson shared. She said she hasn't been able to get in contact with all of them, but "that's what we were always told" growing up.
Hudson was one of three children Simpson shared with Darnell Donerson -- alongside her older sister, Julia, and brother, Jason. "It was my dream to have all of us at this grand Thanksgiving or Christmas table, and we all sit and eat together," Hudson reflected. "That was my goal, at 16.
" Ultimately, Hudson explained that, through the years, she "found quite a few of us...
And I'm the youngest of all of them." According to Hudson, she's met around six or seven of her half-siblings. Video Hudson, meanwhile, has one son -- 14-year-old David Daniel Otunga Jr.
-- whom she shares with her ex, David Otunga . The pair called it quits in 2017 , nine years after getting engaged. They had been together for 10 ye.
