Anica Milenkovic Says Father Offered Her for 50 Marks

Serbian singer Anica Milenkovic opened up exclusively about her relationship with her father on the show “Pretres” on Hype TV. She said her father called her the worst names when he was angry, and that as a 14 year old girl, while she was attending school in Pristina, she heard that he had once offered her to a friend for 50 marks.

Anica explained that while she was staying with family friends in Pristina as a teenager for school, her father told those people not to bother with her and that he would not invest in her musical education. According to her, she still respects the family she stayed with, while her arguments with her father were most often about money. The singer added that her father saw her as “God’s mistake,” because she was not born a boy, and that he used degrading language toward her, her sisters, her mother, and their neighbors.

“My father used to say all sorts of things when he was angry,” Anica said on “Pretres” on Hype TV, adding that it happened not just once but many times. She explained that her arguments with her father were mostly about money, and that he changed partners over the years.

“There isn’t a woman he hasn’t said that about,” Anica said, noting that he probably thought the same about his own mother, even though he never said so directly. She also compared herself to her own mother, who had two more marriages after divorcing her father.

“He used to say I was like my mother, since after him my mother had one marriage that didn’t last long,”

the singer said, adding that her mother eventually died while married to her second husband, while her father, as she put it, changed partners several times over the years.

In the same appearance, Anica also spoke about her mother, who, according to the singer, lost a newborn son during childbirth, although the family never fully believed that account. She has no contact with her father today.

Several facts from her account show how strained her relationship with her father became over the years:

• at 14, she went to school in Pristina, staying with family friends
• her father told the friends at the time that he would not invest in her musical education
• her late uncle advised Anica to reconcile with her father, which never happened
• Anica and her father have no contact today

Anica Milenkovic had largely stayed out of the public eye in recent years, and her appearance on “Pretres” on Hype TV also marked her return to the spotlight.