Goca Trzan: Everything You Think About Me, You're Right

Singer Goca Trzan broke her silence overnight between August 13 and 14 with an Instagram post, answering Ivan Marinkovic’s claim that she stops their daughter Lena from seeing her father for the first time. Out of every untrue thing she has heard said about her, she picked that one out as the dumbest.

The trigger was their daughter Lena’s decision to officially change her surname from Marinkovic to Trzan, her mother’s maiden name. Lena announced the move herself, and Ivan Marinkovic soon reacted, calling the whole situation shameful and claiming the singer had kept him from his child for years.

Goca answered briefly, in a question and answer format with her followers, without naming Ivan once.

There have been so many, but the silliest one might be that I don’t allow my own child to be in contact with her father.

Asked what she fears most, she said she does not have many fears and pointed to betrayal. She closed the post with a line that, within hours, became the most shared part of the whole exchange.

Everything you think about me, you’re right about it.

Why the surname became the story

The relationship between Goca Trzan and Ivan Marinkovic has been a media topic for years, but until now it stayed at the level of occasional comments from the reality shows he appears on. Lena’s decision gave the story a legal shape: changing a surname is an administrative procedure, not a social media post, and that is what sets it apart from everything said before.

Lena wrote about her decision on Instagram, and we had already covered that announcement. What followed was not a comment on a document being changed but an accusation, and that is what finally pulled the singer out of her silence.

What she said before about raising Lena

Some of the context comes from an interview Goca Trzan gave before this dispute started. Speaking to WTF Radio, she described the first months after giving birth and how she juggled performing with a newborn. Lena was born in May, and by the end of July the two of them were already on a plane to Montenegro.

I remember she was little, I gave birth to her in May, and a month and a half later I went off to work solo. Then by the end of July, beginning of August, we flew to Montenegro, where I did three, four shows. I remember, I would breastfeed her, swaddle her, go out on stage, then come off stage, swaddle her again, breastfeed her, get in the car and drive to Herceg Novi, all together with her. I wanted to work no matter what, but I also wanted to be a mom.

In the same interview she said she used to bring her daughter to promotions and events, step away for ten minutes to breastfeed her, then go back to work. She described that period with one word: nomad.

Who said what

The sequence is simple, and worth writing down, since it tends to get lost in the back and forth:

• Lena Marinkovic announces she is soon changing her surname to Trzan
• Ivan Marinkovic reacts, calls the situation shameful and claims he has been kept from contact with his daughter
• Goca Trzan speaks out overnight between August 13 and 14 and rejects that claim as the dumbest thing she has ever heard about herself

Neither side has produced a document, a court ruling or anything else that would confirm or disprove the claim about blocked contact. What remains are two public statements that do not agree.

Goca Trzan has not announced any further comment. Judging by the tone of her closing line, she is not planning to argue the point either.