Ana Nikolic Breaks Up With Rale After His Statement
The singer posted a message on Instagram on August 10 ending her relationship with musician and producer Goran Ratkovic Rale, a day after he said she was wrong in her conflict with Jelena Radanovic.
Ana Nikolic posted a message on Instagram on the morning of August 10 ending her relationship with musician and producer Goran Ratkovic Rale. The post came a day after he spoke out publicly and said she was wrong in her conflict with Jelena Radanovic, wife of singer Slobodan Radanovic.
The message carries no greeting and no explanation of what exactly happened. It carries accusations. The singer writes that Rale betrayed her, their daughter and their love, and points to a move after which, she says, there is no going back.
“Never. You know that perfectly well. That is exactly why you did the one thing there is no coming back from. Now live with it. If you have any conscience or brains left. Any shame, any decency. Because you could have done all of this and still walked away a man. You were never a man.”
The person behind the whole conflict is not named in the post. She does not need to name her, since the dispute has played out in public for three days now, every step of it staged in front of an audience, from voice messages to statements to the press.
What Sparked the Conflict
It all started on August 7, when Ana Nikolic sent voice messages to Jelena Radanovic. The recordings quickly began circulating on TikTok. They contain insults and threats, and the trigger was contact between Jelena and Rale.
Jelena Radanovic responded publicly and explained where that contact came from in the first place. Rale, she said, is not a stranger in their home but her husband’s longtime collaborator.
“Rale is a friend of our family and Slobo’s longtime collaborator. From what I understand, the problem is that I consulted him about dental aesthetics. Everything else is her projection. I have never met her, unfortunately, and I am sorry that she is in such a state and that she is making a drama out of the most ordinary of circumstances. No woman should allow another woman to speak to her like that. We are all sharp tongued when we are angry, but these are serious threats.”
With that, Jelena Radanovic drew a line: everything that happened concerns her marriage and her family, and she has never spoken with Ana Nikolic in person.
Why Did Rale Wait Two Days to Respond?
Rale stayed silent while the recordings spread across social media. He spoke up on August 9, around noon, and explained the delay himself. He framed it as a choice between a woman and his friends, then said he was choosing what he considered the truth.
“I have spent two days now thinking about what to do. On one side are my friends, certainly among the biggest names in the industry. Slobo and Jelena are people I love and respect immensely. On the other side is the woman I love more than anyone in the world. If I side with Slobo and Jelena, it looks like I betrayed Ana. If I side with Ana, it looks like I betrayed my friends. Still, I have to stand behind the truth. Ana is not right.”
In the same statement, he denied that anything beyond friendship had ever existed between him and Jelena Radanovic.
“There was never anything between Jelena and me except respect and genuine friendship that developed through my work with Slobo.”
Rale then publicly apologized to Slobodan and Jelena Radanovic for being dragged into someone else’s relationship. The line that seems to have bothered Ana Nikolic the most was not the apology, but the four words about who was right.
Three Days, Three Moves
The sequence is short and easy to follow:
- August 7, Ana Nikolic’s voice messages reach Jelena Radanovic and start spreading on TikTok
- August 9, Rale breaks his silence and says Ana is wrong, along with an apology to the Radanovic family
- August 10, Ana Nikolic posts her breakup message on Instagram
This is not the first time Ana Nikolic has publicly announced the end of her relationship with Rale. She last did so in May 2025, and the two got back together afterward. The difference this time is that earlier breakups did not follow him publicly siding against her version of events. This one did, and the singer said as much in her post.
There is also a layer that has nothing to do with emotions. Rale is a music producer, and Slobodan Radanovic is someone he has worked with for years. The conflict has moved from private life into the professional circle of the entertainment industry, since it is now clear who owes loyalty to whom, and who can still walk into the same studio with whom after all this.
