While Precious is in the hospital offering beginning to her second little one, Abdul, she meets and develops a crush on John McFadden, a nursing assistant who reveals her kindness. Lenny Kravitz as Nurse John McFadden, a nurse who shows kindness to Precious. Grace Hightower as Social Worker, who visits Precious's loved ones. The family members resides in a Section 8 tenement and survives on welfare.