Milena Kacavenda Breaks Silence After Tumor Surgery

Milena Kacavenda underwent vein surgery and had a tendon sheath tumor removed from her leg, and she left the clinic the very next day. The former Elita contestant spoke for the first time on September 18, a day after the procedure, telling Telegraf and Kurir about the surgery, her feud with Nenad Marinkovic Gastoz and a possible return to the reality show.

She ended up at the doctor because of a small lump she felt under a tattoo on her right leg, by her own account right near the end of Elita 9. She had previously had the same type of growth on her hand, where it was also a tendon sheath tumor. The surgery, she said, lasted an hour and a half.

“It was long overdue for the veins. Even last season, the doctor’s recommendation was that I had to get the veins done,” Kacavenda told Telegraf.

On the procedure itself and the first days of recovery, she added:

“The surgery lasted an hour and a half. I’ve literally just come from the checkup. Everything looks really good and I’m happy about it,” she told Telegraf.

For the haters who, as she claims, were hoping for a worse outcome, she had a message for Kurir as well:

“My famous motto is ‘pain doesn’t hurt, pain is loved.’ If they were hoping the old lady would drop dead, that’s not happening,” Kacavenda told Kurir.

While recovering, she also clashed with Gastoz, who commented on her procedure on Instagram by saying the “old lady got mummified.” Kacavenda fired back that she wasn’t dealing with cosmetic touch ups but a serious health issue, and told him he should worry about his own mother instead. A few hours later she posted an even sharper response, accusing Gastoz’s girlfriend Andjela Djuricic of having had a cosmetic procedure in Turkey.

Kacavenda is convinced that the breakup between Djuricic and Gastoz, reported over the summer, is actually a fake story made up for Filip Car.

“I’m sure this is fake and that the story is being made up for Filip Car,” she told both Telegraf and Kurir.

According to her, Gastoz is still with Andjela, and she reads the exchange of insults on Instagram as his attempt to provoke her ahead of a possible entry into Elita 10, since, as she puts it, she assumes he will also be looking to return to the house.

Sources differ on whether she will actually go back to the show. Telegraf quotes her saying no deal with the production has been reached yet:

“Right now there really is no option that I’ll be entering. We haven’t reached an agreement,” Kacavenda told Telegraf.

Even though there’s no deal yet, she admits she is still driven by a desire for payback against her former housemates, primarily Luka Vujovic, Jasket and Terza, with whom, by her own account, she was in constant conflict throughout last season.

Should she enter Elita 10, she is promising a different kind of conversation with Andjela Djuricic, while on a possible confrontation with Ana Curcic she says she has no illusions, adding that in her estimate that storyline would last two weeks at most.

She describes her last season in Elita as a period that strengthened her both mentally and physically, and points out that of all the contestants, she was the only one to leave without a single penalty and without owing the production anything.

Since the end of last season, Kacavenda has been a regular presence in the media, and on social networks she occasionally comments on her former castmates, including Marko Janjusevic Janjus, with whom she had a brief romance during her time on the show, one she now says she no longer believes could happen again.