Biljana Jevtic on Marriage to Aca Ilic: Divorce Never Came Up
The singer addressed the divorce rumors and revealed how a marriage many on the scene call ideal survives: in their home, that word has never once been spoken.
- Biljana Jevtic addressed rumors of a split from Aca Ilic, her husband since 1989.
- She said the word divorce has never once been spoken in their home, even if small quarrels happen.
- Speaking generally about colleagues who divorced, she argued a painful end is better than pain without end.
- The couple have a son, Ivan, and have been seen as one of the most harmonious pairs on the scene for more than three and a half decades.
Biljana Jevtic has shut down the latest divorce rumors surrounding her and Aca Ilic with a line now being repeated across the Serbian music scene. The singer, married to her husband since 1989, said the word divorce has never once come up in their home. That, she says, is the whole secret.
The stories, as so often before, appeared out of nowhere. A couple regarded for decades as one of the most harmonious on the scene periodically end up in headlines hinting at a crisis. This time Biljana chose to answer plainly, without the drama such a topic would usually invite.
Their love has lasted more than three and a half decades. They married in the late 1980s, raised their son Ivan, and, unlike much of their profession, managed to stay together through everything a life under the spotlight brings. That is exactly why every rumor of a separation draws more attention here than it would for other couples.
How does a marriage everyone watches from the outside survive?
The recipe is not spectacular, and perhaps that is its strength. Biljana admits there are disagreements, that a small thing crops up now and then, and that no marriage is free of friction. But the line they will not cross was drawn long ago. In their home the word divorce has never been spoken, not in the worst moment, not as a threat in an argument.
That single sentence says more than any grand confession. On a scene where marriages are made and broken in front of cameras, where divorce can even be a marketing move, one couple has for years held to an agreement that certain words simply do not fall.
Family, both of them stress, has always come first. Their son Ivan is the priority everything else was arranged around, and they built their shared life far from the noise the industry demands. That is likely why audiences see them as a pair that endured what many others gave up on.
What is her message to those who divorce?
Speaking generally about colleagues who have gone through divorces, Biljana was blunt in her own way. She said it is sometimes better to have a painful end than pain without end. She did not say it to call anyone out, but as the stance of someone who believes you either stay in a relationship honestly or you do not stay at all.
There is no hypocrisy in that line. She does not judge those who split, quite the opposite. Her point is that staying in something that does not work is worse than admitting it is over. And that is precisely why her statement about her own marriage carries weight: divorce never came up not because it is a forbidden subject, but because, as she puts it, there was never any need.
The public is used to reading about them every few months. One minute they are divorcing, the next they are the happiest couple, then they are retiring from the stage. Bilja and Aca meet all of it with the same calm, like people whose home cannot be shaken by someone else’s headlines.
Is that really the secret to a long marriage, keeping certain words unsaid, or is every couple a story of its own?
