Stanija Gives Part of Elita Prize to Churches, Seeks Therapy
Elita 9 winner Stanija Dobrojevic is directing part of her 100,000-euro prize to churches and charity, while admitting she is seeking help from a psychologist after the show.
- Stanija Dobrojevic won Elita 9 and its 100,000-euro prize.
- She is directing part of the money to churches and charitable causes.
- She says she is seeking help from a psychologist after the reality show.
- She previously donated to the Mala Remeta monastery and visited Ostrog.
Stanija Dobrojevic won Elita 9 on July 21 and walked out of the season’s most watched reality show with a 100,000-euro prize. Instead of the usual talk about celebration and spending plans, the winner opened a subject contestants rarely say out loud: part of that money is going to churches and charity, and she herself is looking for help from a psychologist once it is all over.
It is a turn that sets Stanija apart from the standard reality victory. A prize like this usually becomes property, a car or a new business. In her case, she says, the first names that come up are a monastery and the people who need help more than she does, and only then herself. That side of her is not new. The public has followed her visits to holy sites and her donations before, so this year’s decision reads as a continuation of something already there, not a gesture for the cameras.
Why is a reality winner talking about therapy?
Because the end of Elita was, in her words, too brutal. Months in the house, constant exposure, conflicts and emotional turbulence leave a mark that does not show up in the finale montage. Stanija said openly that she needs professional support to bring it all down and get back to a normal rhythm. In a scene where weakness is usually hidden, that admission is a rare moment of honesty.
Her finale was also shaped by a difficult emotional situation with one of the contestants, a story the house talked about until the very last day. That part, more than the nominations and the contest itself, left her drained, as she admits. Choosing to speak about it openly, rather than perform winner’s euphoria, gives her victory a different tone. It is not about a trophy, but about a person walking out of a process that wore them down.
What does the donation decision really say?
It says Stanija does not see the prize as purely her spoils. She has already helped the Mala Remeta monastery and visited Ostrog, so steering part of the 100,000 euros toward churches and charity is a pattern, not an improvisation. For an audience used to seeing winners flash new bags and watches, this is an unexpected move.
The open question is how much exactly she will set aside and for whom, since concrete figures are not yet known. But the direction is clear: part of the money moves on, and not only to her. Combined with the announcement that she is seeking a psychologist, the picture is of a winner who leaves the reality show not as someone who got everything, but as someone who knows what it cost.
Has Stanija’s decision to give part of the prize to churches and charity changed how you see her?
