Zdravko Colic on heartbreak: Something is missing
The singer who has guarded his privacy for decades made an exception on In Magazin and opened up about the loves that failed in his youth. Today he is happily married to his wife Aleksandra.
- On June 25, Zdravko Colic opened up on the show In Magazin about the romantic disappointments of his youth.
- The singer said that anyone who has never had their heart broken and was never in love is "missing something."
- He admitted he had few serious relationships, but that even the failed ones shaped him.
- Today he is married to his wife Aleksandra, a geography teacher, with whom he has two daughters.
On June 25, Zdravko Colic made an exception on the show In Magazin and spoke about something he has stayed quiet about for years, the loves that fell apart back when he was young. The singer, who has kept his private life far from the cameras for decades, did not dodge the question this time.
“I had few of those serious relationships,” Colic said on the show, then added the line that immediately began circulating online: “Anyone who has never had their heart broken and was never in love, I think something is missing in them.”
For a man who has been one of the biggest voices in the region for decades, this is a rare moment of openness. Colic seldom talks about himself outside of music. His audience knows him by his songs, his sold-out arenas and his image as an eternal charmer, but not by confessions about his own romantic defeats.
Why did he decide to speak now?
In the same conversation, the singer made clear that he does not regret a single relationship that ended. On the contrary, he speaks of them as part of life rather than as mistakes. What comes through in his words is the belief that a person grows through disappointment, and that this very experience is what makes someone whole.
That message stuck with the audience fast. At a time when pop-folk romances are announced and broken off publicly, almost in real time, Colic’s calm line about a broken heart sounds almost old-fashioned. He does not turn pain into drama, he turns it into something that has meaning.
That is exactly why this brief appearance drew so much attention. There were no names, no accusations, no jabs at anyone. There was only one honest thought from a man who has clearly long since made peace with his past.
From youthful disappointment to a safe harbor
Today Colic’s love story is a completely different picture. The singer is married to his wife Aleksandra, a geography teacher, with whom he has two daughters, Una and Lara. He carefully shields his family, like everything else personal, from the public, and talks about it only as much as he chooses to.
That contrast is what makes the story special. A man who now has a calm family harbor openly says that a string of failed loves helped bring him there, and that without the broken hearts of his youth he probably would not be who he is. Instead of hiding the past, he presents it as part of the journey.
Perhaps that is precisely why his sentence resonates. Not because it is sensational, but because it rings true. The one who has never loved and never suffered, as Colic puts it, may really not know something about themselves.
And what about you, do you think a broken heart truly shapes a person, or is it just a nicely wrapped consolation?
