"It has happened to me that the flight attendant assumes that my seat is in the economy and not in first class," says the actress.
Actress and singer Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls, a Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2009 for her self-titled album, sang at Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013, and will be one of the judges of the musical program The Voice of the United Kingdom in its next season. Despite all her resume of achievements, her skin color still prevails and the artist, 36, reveals that she still has to deal with racial prejudice.
“It has happened to me on several occasions that the flight attendant assumes that my seat is in economy class and not in first class as indicated on the ticket,” says Hudson in an interview for the February edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. “That happens to me often,” she adds.
The artist also comments that there have been people who have assumed that her house belongs to her white driver, Charles. “When I was moving, the movers didn't know where to put something and I told the man 'put it there.' He waited until Charles arrived to ask him, who told him he was talking to the wrong person." “Even this kind of thing happens in your own house!” she exclaims.
“I am African American, a working mother and I live in a wealthy neighborhood. Too many strange things for one person! ”, Ironically the actress, speed from her fiancée, the wrestler David Otenga, last November after a 10-year relationship and a common child of eight, David Daniel.
“This is just one example of the things that have happened to me. I face any challenge”, says the singer, a faithful defender of equality and rights who also has words for the crisis that Hollywood is experiencing in the S- harassment scandal after the Weinstein case. “I hate that these things have happened, but I'm glad that women are standing up for themselves. That should be a right. And someone's power should not predominate over anyone. That is not right, ”she concludes.
