Karleusa: I Tasted a Drug, Wanted to Know the Taste

Jelena Karleusa admitted last night, appearing on Ognjen Amidzic’s show “Amidzi Show,” that she once tried a drug. The confession came during the program’s regular “Truth Game” segment, where guests must answer personal questions with no option to skip, and this time the question on the table was about drugs.

The question was direct: had she ever used drugs. Karleusa didn’t dodge it, even though she had never answered it on camera before.

“I’ve tried a drug. I licked it. I can’t say which one. I won’t lie. What I licked tastes like a mixed powder. Otherwise, I’m against all vices, everyone knows that, but I licked it once, I wanted to know what it tastes like,” Karleusa said on the show.

She didn’t say which substance she had tried, and she didn’t take the topic any further on camera. She stressed that her principle still stands, that she is against every kind of vice, and that this one moment was pure curiosity rather than a habit or a story she keeps repeating. A clip of the conversation soon appeared on the show’s YouTube channel, and outlets quickly picked it up.

Also on the show that night were host Jovana Jeremic and her fiance Milos Stankovic, better known by his nickname Tigar. Before turning to the couple, Karleusa listened to their love story, how they met and how much they love each other, and openly admired it. What moved her most was that Tigar had stood by Jeremic at the moment her father died, one of the hardest periods of her life, and that, as she put it herself, is what made her direct her message to him.

That’s why the pop diva decided to issue a warning to both Jeremic and her fiance on camera, in a joking tone but entirely serious underneath it.

“I’m glad, Jovana, that you found the man of your life, and now, right here, publicly, on camera, I can only warn him that there’s no messing around, and that he’ll have to deal with me if something isn’t the way she wants it,” Karleusa said, addressing Jeremic and Stankovic.

She followed it immediately with a short, direct message aimed straight at Tigar himself.

“Tiger, watch what you’re doing,” Karleusa said.

Besides the drug admission and the warning to Tigar, Karleusa also performed “Samo,” a hit by fellow singer Stoja, on “Amidzi Show,” and briefly touched on her relationship with her ex husband Dusko Tosic. Informer reports that her performance of the song wowed the studio audience, and the episode, as it usually does when the pop diva is a guest, drew attention the moment the drug admission surfaced from the clip and spread to entertainment outlets.

Karleusa rarely dodges direct questions on camera, and the “Truth Game” format doesn’t really let her, even when the answer risks becoming next day’s headline. This time her answer, about a drug she won’t name, became the main story, while the public warning to Tigar gave an extra jolt to followers keeping an eye on Jovana Jeremic’s relationship with her fiance, especially now that they know he stood by her through the hardest moment of her life, when her father died.