Karleusa Tells Tosic: Come to Sunday Family Party

Jelena Karleusa performed in Podgorica on Friday in front of more than a thousand people, and the crowd sang along to her best known songs all night. Right after the concert, in front of the cameras, the singer addressed a topic that had nothing to do with music: her ex husband, Dusko Tosic.

Journalist Bozo Dobrisa asked Karleusa, in an interview for Pink, whether she had seen the paparazzi photos of Tosic caught late at night buying something at a kiosk. The singer did not dodge the question, and answered in her usual, direct style.

I think he’s buying that snus thing, or even better if he’s buying condoms, I’d actually recommend that to him. Honestly, good luck to him. Let him just come on Sunday, so we can be together as a family, so everything goes right for Atina and Nika, and after that whatever he does, whatever he buys and with whom, I leave that to him, I trust his bad taste.

Karleusa said, in her statement for Pink after the Podgorica concert.

The ironic remark about her ex husband did not stop Karleusa from issuing a clear invitation. She said she expects Tosic to show up on Sunday for the family celebration, for the sake of daughters Atina and Nika, and that whatever he does afterward is no longer her concern.

Whose birthday is it, and when?

Atina and Nika were born on September 7, and this year Atina turns 18, reaching legal adulthood. The Sunday that Karleusa mentioned in front of the cameras is the day set for the celebration itself, two days after the actual birthday.

According to media reports, more than 50,000 euros have been set aside for the coming of age celebration. The venue has been booked at one of Belgrade’s high end hotels, and the decor, according to the same reports, is being brought in from abroad. This is an event that goes far beyond an ordinary birthday party, and one being organized just as the row over the paparazzi photos broke out only a day earlier.

Who is coming to the celebration?

According to media reports, the guest list includes Dragana Mirkovic, Indira Radic and Viki Miljkovic. Karleusa has taken on the music for the evening herself, meaning the singer will be both host and part of the entertainment that night, much as she was in Podgorica just days earlier, both performer and the one fielding uncomfortable questions about her private life.

The invitation to Tosic, delivered in front of the cameras with a dose of sarcasm, gains its context from this. Regardless of the paparazzi photos and the remark about the kiosk, the father of two is, in Karleusa’s own words, still welcome at his daughters’ coming of age celebration. What he does after Sunday, as the singer put it, is no longer a subject she wants to comment on.

Karleusa once again showed that she speaks openly about her private life, including her relationship with her ex husband, without prepared answers, even when the question comes right after a concert, in front of an audience of more than a thousand people. Whether Tosic will actually show up on Sunday, and whether there will be new paparazzi photos before then, for now only he knows.

Her answer about the kiosk and the snus, however much it sounded like a jab, ultimately carried the same message she repeated in front of the cameras in Podgorica: Sunday is set aside for family and for her daughters, and everything else, as she put it herself, she leaves to her ex husband. At no point in the conversation did the singer dispute that the photo was genuine, nor did she try to avoid the question, she answered it right away, in the same breath in which she announced who was coming to the celebration.