Ana Radulovic: 'Turn Off the Cameras, I'm Done'

Ana Radulovic got up from the host’s chair and walked out of frame during a live broadcast of “Narod pita” on Pink television, on August 3, after reading her guest Sofija Janicijevic’s private text messages out loud, on camera. The show was airing live at the time. The remaining guests stayed in the studio and kept arguing without her.

In the studio that day were Teodora Delic, Sofija Janicijevic and Lepi Mica. The argument centered on Sofija’s relationship with a man the show referred to only as Dane, someone in his 70s who had been sending her money. Sofija never denied that the money came in. What she denied was that there was anything emotional between them.

What the Messages Ana Radulovic Read on Air Revealed

Radulovic laid out the messages on the show and read the exact date on which Sofija began addressing Dane, in their exchanges, as his wife. The same messages, written in Macedonian, also had her telling him she loved him. Sofija had denied this right up until that point.

What followed was the response that derailed the show. Sofija answered that she had never said “I love you” in Serbian, only in Macedonian. The host stood up right after that line.

“People, turn off the cameras, I can’t do this anymore,” Ana Radulovic said, then walked out of the studio.

The break was brief. Radulovic came back to her seat, walked over to Sofija Janicijevic, hugged her, and wrapped up the show.

Why Mica and Teodora Sided Against Sofija

Before the messages were even read, Sofija had already spoken about Dane without holding back. She said she felt no responsibility toward him and that, in her own words, she had been messing with him. Lepi Mica was the first to push back, reminding her of the man’s age and his health.

Sofija confirmed that Dane had been sick, but drew a line right after:

“He had cancer, it’s gone now, but there are lingering effects. That doesn’t mean he’s too sick to think straight about some things. I said he’s old and has trouble walking,” Sofija Janicijevic said.

Teodora Delic cut her off: “You used a sick man.” Mica added: “When you say ‘I can get away with it’, that’s your biggest racket.”

Sofija did not back down even then.

“How is he not sick if he believed me? I don’t feel guilty and I’m not sorry, because he’s a fraud who tricked all of you into thinking he was intimate with me. I couldn’t care less whether he’s sick, whether he’s alive, or whether he’s off in the clouds,” she said in the studio.

Earlier in the show, she had said this about the same man: “Dane is someone who sent me money, I was messing with him. I couldn’t care less about him, I’m not interested.”

So What Actually Holds Up?

It is worth being precise here, because this story is easy to garble in the retelling. Based on what Sofija herself said on the show, Dane does not currently have cancer. He had it and recovered. What remains are the aftereffects, on top of his age and his trouble walking. The difference between “is sick with” and “recovered from” is not a small one when a man is being judged publicly for how someone treated him.

Another thing worth separating out: everything the public knows about Dane comes from statements made in the studio. His age, his health and the amounts he sent were not independently confirmed. The one piece of hard evidence that surfaced on the show was the messages themselves, and that is what sent the evening in this direction.

That is what is left once the cameras stopped rolling. The date from those messages is now public. Every future statement Sofija Janicijevic makes about her relationship with Dane will be measured against that date, not against what she had claimed until the night before. The hug at the end of the show did not undo that.