Jelena Bacic Alimpic After Crash: I'm Fine, It Will Pass

Jelena Bacic Alimpic, a writer and former television host, was hospitalized on August 13 after a car accident, and the launch of her new book, scheduled for August 14, has been postponed. The news was announced the same day through her official Instagram account, in a post written by her team.

The post said the accident had happened shortly before the announcement and that the launch was being postponed with no new date set.

Jelena was just in a car accident, and for now we’ll have to postpone the book launch. She’s in the hospital and she’s doing fine.

Her condition was described as stable. A new date for the launch has yet to be set.

What is known about her injuries?

Bacic Alimpic responded to the news herself. She replied to people who had written to her and described the injuries she suffered.

Thank you for reaching out, I’m fine. My ribs and neck are a bit bruised, but it will pass.

That is, for now, the only description of her injuries to come from her directly. No details have been released about the severity of the crash, the damage to the vehicle, or how long she might stay in the hospital.

What has not been disclosed matters just as much, to avoid speculation. The location of the accident is not known. Neither is the cause, whether anyone else was involved, or which hospital Jelena Bacic Alimpic is being treated in. None of that has been confirmed, so none of it is being reported.

When will the new book launch take place?

The launch had been scheduled for August 14, at a restaurant. The event fell through less than twenty four hours before it was due to start.

No new date has been announced. Her team’s message said the event was being postponed “for now,” leaving room for a new date, but no specific day was named, and the timing depends on her recovery.

The way the news broke says something about how Jelena Bacic Alimpic communicates with her readers. The announcement of the postponement went out first on her Instagram account, and she then reached out personally to people who had written to her.

A difficult year

This accident comes in a year already marked by loss. In late January 2026, her mother died, and Bacic Alimpic spoke publicly about it for the first time several months later.

It’s very hard for me, I’m an orphan now, without either parent. I cry every day since I lost my mother and I miss her so much. The day before she died we were laughing and hugging. I still can’t believe what happened.

She has also spoken before about how stress affects the body. In an appearance on K1 television, she described an example from her own experience: a cyst on her breast that grew while she was working in television and disappeared after she quit and stepped away from that pace of life.

I’ll give a medical example from my own case. While I was working in television I had a nine millimeter cyst on my left breast that kept growing, and our doctor, Dragana Bogdanovic Stojanovic, said, “We’ll have to drain that.” Okay, we’ll have to, but I never got around to it, it was always the last thing on the list because nothing about it seemed alarming. What actually happened is that I quit my job on television, I forgot about the cyst, the timing just lined up that way, and three months later I went in for a regular checkup and said, “Gaga, what about that cyst?” She asked me, “What cyst?” No cyst, no stress. When you work under stress and then you step away, when you give your soul an outlet and start healing it, your body simply reacts the same way.

After leaving television, she turned to writing, which is now her main occupation. She has also mentioned the messages people sent her after news of the accident spread, in the reply where she thanked them for reaching out.

For now, the only official information is her team’s announcement and her own message. Until she says otherwise, what stands is what she wrote herself: that she is fine, and that it will pass.