Indi Aradinovic: 'I Have No Mother or Sister Now'
The singer announced on Instagram on August 23 that her mother and sister Edita had died to her, and the next day told Kurir the fight was over a new 'auntie' on her sister's profile.
Singer Indi Aradinovic wrote in an Instagram story on August 23 that her mother and her sister, Edita Aradinovic, had “died” for her that day. The next day, August 24, at 2:34 PM, she explained the reason for the break in an interview with Kurir written by Ljiljana Stanisic.
“My mother and my sister died on me yesterday. In a single day, two lives went out for me. I am not in mourning. I just want that known. August 23, 2026. As of today, I have no mother, no sister,” Indi Aradinovic wrote in the Instagram post.
The news of the post was also picked up by the Informer portal at 2:42 PM the same day, which noted that the message had triggered an avalanche of reactions online.
The fight over the “new auntie”
Edita Aradinovic recently became a mother. After her sister gave birth, Indi had repeatedly written publicly about her role as an aunt, describing it as a privilege. According to Indi, the new falling out was triggered by an Instagram post in which Edita introduced a friend as the baby’s “new auntie.”
“She introduced her to me as her friend, or half friend, I don’t know, and said: ‘Our new auntie has arrived,’” Indi Aradinovic told Kurir.
By her account, she had never met that person before and first ran into her on the street the same day she gave the interview. Indi maintains that she is the baby’s only real aunt, while the other women Edita calls aunts are actually her own sisters, not Edita’s.
“I think I earned at least some respect from Edita, if nothing else,” the singer added, explaining that she never got it.
”The baby isn’t dead to me”
Despite the harsh words aimed at her mother and sister, Indi drew a line between how she feels about Edita and how she feels about Edita’s baby.
“As of today, Edita is dead to me. The baby isn’t, but as far as I’m concerned, I’m not carrying that role of aunt anymore,” Indi Aradinovic said in the interview with Kurir.
The singer added that she isn’t giving up the title of aunt altogether, but that she believes Edita used the role, in her words, as an “advertisement” and a “show for the public” rather than as a real family bond. Because of that, she said, she will no longer see the baby either, since the child is tied to the mother, with whom, as she described it, she has cut off all contact.
Neither Edita Aradinovic nor the sisters’ mother had publicly responded to the accusations by the time this article was published.
Same day, different topics
In the same interview with Kurir, Indi Aradinovic also spoke about other matters in her private and professional life. She said she wasn’t paid for her appearance at the Dragi Bravo festival, since she went on stage as a guest of fellow performer Bojan Bjelic rather than as an independently booked act. Last year, she added, she had been invited to perform at the same festival, but the deal fell through at the time for technical reasons.
She also addressed her earlier falling out with singer Mina Kostic, with whom, she said, she is now on good terms. According to her, they now talk every day, get coffee and go for walks together.
This isn’t the first time the Aradinovic sisters’ family relationship has spilled into public view. Indi had previously shared photos with her niece on Instagram on several occasions and written about how much the role of aunt meant to her, even though the two had already had public disagreements in the past. The current fight is, by her own account, the sharpest one yet, since for the first time she is publicly saying that her relationship with her mother and sister is completely over.
