Dejan Dragojevic on Losing His Baby: 'Unbearable Pain'

Dejan Dragojevic, winner of Zadruga 5, and his fiancee Jovana Stojanovic have lost their baby. Dragojevic confirmed the news himself, speaking publicly for the first time on Friday morning, September 5, about a loss the couple had kept from the public for months.

The couple announced the pregnancy in late May 2026, after a long struggle to conceive. Instead of celebrating a birth, they went through the opposite experience, and said nothing about it publicly until this Friday morning. Both had spoken openly about the pregnancy while it lasted, which made the news of the loss all the more unexpected for media and followers used to their candor.

Dragojevic told Pink.rs that he still isn’t ready to speak openly about what happened.

I’m not ready to talk about this topic, because it’s an unbearable pain and we’ve been through a difficult period. We kept it hidden because we weren’t ready to share publicly the thing that breaks us the most.

Instead of a social media post, the kind they used to announce the pregnancy, the couple withdrew from public life this time. Dragojevic also explained why they decided to stay silent from the very first days.

We didn’t announce it publicly because it was really hard. The first days were the hardest, especially for Jovana, a woman goes through an extremely stressful period at that time, and on the other hand I had no words of comfort, nor the strength. Love helped the most, because we’re each other’s support.

Dragojevic gave this statement earlier to Blic, and it was also carried by Kurir and Informer the same morning he spoke to Pink.rs.

Dragojevic had described the couple’s struggle to conceive before, in an earlier appearance on Pink. He revealed then that he learned about the pregnancy while in Saudi Arabia, when Jovana called to tell him she was expecting. He also stressed that the couple doesn’t like to talk much about their relationship.

We’re in a common law relationship, but I don’t like talking about it too much, I like to keep my happiness to myself.

On that occasion, Dragojevic also revealed that he and Jovana had considered medical help before the pregnancy, including testing and in vitro fertilization, but that the pregnancy ultimately happened naturally.

We just naturally used some supplements, but everything happened naturally. Now I have this to tell people: don’t lose hope, it’s all about believing in it. In vitro fertilization is free in Serbia, they can try, let them believe.

In late May, when he announced he was going to become a father, Dragojevic posted a photo with Jovana taken at Petrovaradin Fortress. He wrote at the time that “this life has started to make sense” and that every day they looked at a baby “the size of an apple.” That post now carries an entirely different weight, given what followed.

Dragojevic won the fifth season of Zadruga in 2021, and has often been in the media spotlight over his private life since. He and Jovana Stojanovic are in a common law relationship, something he says he doesn’t like to discuss. The couple hasn’t announced further details about what happened, and Dragojevic said in vitro fertilization remains a free option in Serbia for couples going through a similar struggle to have children.

Nearly every domestic outlet has reported on their relationship and the planned child, mostly carrying Dragojevic’s earlier statements about the struggle to conceive. This time, he says, things are different, since the couple wasn’t ready to talk about the loss while the pain was still fresh, and their silence lasted months before he decided to speak.