Jennifer Hudson on Oprah (VIDEO)

Posted on February 28, 2009

Singer Jennifer Hudson told Oprah Winfrey on Friday that music is her “therapy” after the murders of three of her relatives this past year. Read more on Jennifer Hudson and view Oprah video below.

Jennifer Hudson and Oprah Winfrey did not discuss the October murders during the singer’s television appearance, but when asked how she was doing Hudson said she is “really good.”

“I’m just glad to be back and be back to work again,” said Hudson, 27. “Just doing what I love to do is like therapy.”

Police William Balfour, the estranged husband of the singer’s older sister, Julia, with the murder of Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew in Chicago this past October.

Hudson, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in the movie “Dreamgirls”, won a Grammy earlier this month for best R&B album for her self-titled 2008 release.

“It almost surpassed winning the Grammy for me, seeing Whitney Houston,” Hudson said. “And then her presenting it to me was, like, unbelievable.”

Hudson, who got her start as a contestant on “American Idol”, told Winfrey she has a dog named Oscar, another one named Grammy and a third pooch named Dreamgirl.

Jennifer Hudson begins her U.S. tour March 31st.

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