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"Jennifer Hudson has described her performance at Super Bowl XLVII as &amp;quot;emotional&amp;quot;. The Oscar winner was joined in her game-opening version of &amp;#039;America the Beautiful&amp;#039; by the chorus of Sandy Hook Elementary, where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in December.      Hudson spoke about the honor of opening the Super Bowl, as well as meeting the Sandy Hook students, during an interview on NBC&amp;#039;s Today. &amp;quot;I got to meet them [at rehearsal] and we went over the song, and... I couldn&amp;#039;t get through the song because it was so overwhelming,&amp;quot; she recalled. &amp;quot;Before we went out I hugged each and every one of them, and then we prayed a little bit, and then we got out there.&amp;quot; Hudson went on to say that she finds survivors of the Sandy Hook massacre to be an inspiration.  &amp;quot;Little children being survivors like that... that is the part that took me back in [while I performed],&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;They are conquerors, they are survivors. And they&amp;#039;re babies. So that was overwhelming.&amp;quot; Super Bowl XLVII earned 108.41 million viewers on Sunday, making the telecast the third most-watched show in US history. Photo gallery - Destiny&amp;#039;s Child reunite at the Super Bowl:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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