Jovana Jeremic: The Time for Reckoning Has Come

Television host Jovana Jeremic has spoken out about her ex fiance Dragan Stankovic, after he reportedly got engaged following three months in a new relationship. In a statement to media published on August 9, she said she had stayed silent for a year and would not keep doing so.

Jeremic and Stankovic have not been together for a year. In the same conversation, she recalled that during that period she lost her father and did not say a word about it publicly at the time. Now, she says, a different phase is beginning.

What Jovana Jeremic said about her ex fiance’s engagement

Asked whether the speed of Stankovic’s engagement caught her off guard, the host declined to judge his choices.

“I don’t want to comment on anything he’s done, not at all. He’s a man, he has the right, he’s really living his own life, and I genuinely wish him all the best. I’m just defending myself and my territory. I’m a woman mobster. Whoever steps into my territory will end up like someone walking barefoot over thorns.”

She then explained what actually bothers her, and it is not the engagement itself but the fact that, in her view, her name is being used as a ticket into the media.

“It’s not that I started baking rolls and selling them at a bakery. Instead, someone walked into my media territory, into my space, precisely by being known as Jovana Jeremic’s ex partner, and that alone wouldn’t be an issue in the whole story. I’m glad about that, it’s just that I haven’t seen my own face hanging nonstop in the media, and I’ve had enough of it.”

On her ex fiance’s upcoming wedding, she said she is handing him the title of ex partner “free of charge, as a gift,” and wished him a beautiful wedding and two children.

The year she never talked about

The toughest part of her statement was not about him but about herself. Jeremic for the first time publicly linked the end of the relationship to her father’s death and said she went through it without a single public word.

“It’s been a year now since we’ve been apart, we’re living completely different lives. In the meantime I also had my father’s death and everything else, and I carried all of it stoically. My life was falling apart around this time last year. I didn’t say a word.”

She then announced a change in how she plans to operate going forward, pointing to 21 years of work in the media:

“I won’t stay silent for anyone anymore. The time for reckoning has come. Whoever messes with me will answer to me. Whoever treats me well, I’ll treat three times as well in return. I will never again let anyone use me, or misuse my name and surname.”

She added the line that spread fastest online: “I’ve celebrated with every Tom, Dick and Harry in my life.”

Why this differs from her earlier reactions

Until now, Jeremic had spoken about her ex’s new girlfriend briefly and at a distance. In an article we published earlier, when she reacted to his new partner with the line about “a flower from his own garden,” she stayed within the bounds of a quip. This time she changed register: instead of commenting on someone else’s relationship, she set a condition for the future.

The difference is also that this time she is not responding to a single situation but announcing a pattern of behavior. Whoever that is aimed at will show themselves the next time they even mention her name.

She was also asked about claims regarding her ex partner’s debts, which she herself had referenced earlier in a statement. There, she stopped.

“I don’t want to talk about his debts. Other people can deal with that. I don’t want to talk about his life. I only talk about myself, and I defend only what’s mine.”

Timeline

• summer 2025: Jovana Jeremic and Dragan Stankovic’s relationship ends, and her father dies during the same period
• the following year: the host makes no public comments about her ex partner
• August 2026: Stankovic, according to media reports, gets engaged after three months in a new relationship
• August 9, 2026: Jovana Jeremic’s first extensive statement on the whole situation

The host herself said she has no reason to feel bad about any of it and thanked journalists for carrying her words in full. Her point came down to a single sentence: she is defending her name, not a past relationship.

What follows is the most interesting part. Jeremic announced that “some things will come out and be heard and seen” and that she will not allow the media to build stories that do not exist. That is a promise with a deadline: if nothing concrete follows such an announcement, the statement stays just a good line. If it does follow, the story moves from the celebrity pages to something more serious.