Karleusa: "I Have to Pay Them Back Double"

Jelena Karleusa revealed on Ognjen Amidzic’s show “Amidza Show” how much money was collected in envelopes at the 18th birthday party of her daughters Atina and Nika. The figure, she said, tops 100,000 euros.

Karleusa and her ex husband Dusko Tosic threw a gala celebration on September 6 for the girls’ coming of age, and many of her colleagues from the entertainment scene showed up. Guests, the singer said, arrived with envelopes and flowers, and some went even further than that.

Amidzic asked her on the show whether the envelopes were really full.

I have to ask you, were the envelopes full, and are you now facing a bank loan to pay all these people back? Ognjen Amidzic asked Jelena.

Karleusa answered that the amount was so large she had to personally call some of the guests after they opened their gifts.

I have to say this too, I called everyone who went overboard with the money in the envelopes. I wanted to give it back, but they wouldn’t hear of it. Now I have to pay them back double. Thank you all, Karleusa said on Amidza Show.

According to the outlets that reported details from the celebration, roughly 100,000 euros in total was collected in envelopes, with some guests giving as much as 1,000 euros for each of the birthday girls. It is a sum, the reports note, rarely seen at a party in Serbia.

Boki 13 did not hold back when picking gifts for his friend’s daughters. He brought Atina and Nika bags from Alaia and Miu Miu, worth about 6,000 euros combined.

The parents themselves did not fall short either. Besides the gala celebration, Jelena and Dusko gave their daughters gold jewelry from a well known jewelry brand, which they say the girls will keep as a memento.

What is Karleusa’s relationship with Tosic like today?

On the same show, Karleusa also spoke about her relationship with her ex husband, with whom she marked their daughters’ coming of age in a far calmer atmosphere than in previous years. She admitted that the celebration was spoiled for her in the first few minutes, but by her encounter with Dusko, and for a very different reason than one might expect.

I ruined my kids’ birthday right away, in the first five minutes. I burst into tears, my eyelash came off because of Dusko. I’ve become very soft when it comes to my children, I don’t know how that happens, I guess it’s the years. I’m very soft about my kids, I’m a proud mother. There was huge tension, I even cried. Then Dusko and I, after years of not being on good terms, I heard some kind words. Still, a mother wants to hear them from the man she had children with, and that’s what he said then, Karleusa said, adding:

We’re on good terms now, and I can see from Atina and Nika how much it means to them when Dusko and I sit together and talk nicely. I can see that childlike joy in their eyes, that mom and dad at least communicate well, that they’re not enemies, and we really were enemies for quite a long time, but I always said over the years that whatever happens, I would give my life for Dusko.

Srpske Novine previously reported on another chapter of that relationship: how Karleusa revealed that Tosic had cut himself out of a family photo. In light of her latest comments, that story now looks like it foreshadowed exactly the kind of reconciliation she described on Amidza Show.

For now, based on what their mother has said, the girls have no firm answer on how much of the collected money they will get to keep for themselves, and how much Karleusa, as she announced, will return to guests through new, bigger gifts.