Snezana Pavlovic Lives in a Board House With No Toilet

Snezana Pavlovic, a former contestant on the show “Nikad nije kasno” (“It’s Never Too Late”), lives in Stara Pazova in a small house made of boards and styrofoam. There is no bathroom or toilet inside, and she bathes in a tub in the yard. She showed the conditions she lives in to crews from Kurir and Telegraf, who visited her in recent months.

The singer competed on Zika Jaksic’s show in 2019. When the competition ended, she returned to life away from the stage. Kurir reports that 14 dogs and 11 cats live in the house with her.

What does the house in Stara Pazova look like?

Snezana lives, eats and sleeps in a single room. By her own account, the kitchen and dining room are in the same room where she sleeps. She has no refrigerator because it doesn’t work, so she keeps her food in the freezer. Kurir recorded her words:

I have no toilet, and I go outside. I have no kitchen or dining room, it’s all in the room where I sleep. I eat on the bed, and I keep my food in the freezer, I have no fridge, it doesn’t work.

Pavlovic also told Kurir that the house has not been painted and that nobody is there to mow the grass. According to her, she called people and collected money for it, but nobody was willing to come.

What about electricity, water and bathing?

Here the two outlets’ accounts differ. Kurir says in its introduction that the house has neither electricity nor water. Snezana herself says in the same article that the house has no electricity, but that the church has allowed her to connect. Telegraf reports that she gets power from the church through a cable.

She says she has water from two taps outside. Bathing depends on the season:

I bathe in the tub in the yard while it’s summer. In winter I sometimes bathe, because it’s very cold, I can’t, I pour a little water over myself on the terrace and run back inside.

She confirmed to Telegraf that there is no toilet inside. Everything, as she puts it, goes outside.

How did she end up with a plot in Stara Pazova?

Snezana was born in Valjevo. She bought the plot in Stara Pazova and built the house on it. She explained to Telegraf how she got there:

I worked for eight years, I had no income, the musicians took my money. I came here to Pazova, found God, I love him most in the world, he was always with me and helped me.

Kurir also wrote down her version of the same period: “After eight years of singing I earned this piece of land and a little house, and now I’m fighting for my life.”

Telegraf also talked with her about her family. She met her mother, who was ill and spent a long time in hospitals, for the first time only as an adult. “When I was 30 years old I met her for the first time,” she told Telegraf. Her mother died at 55 in a hospital in Kragujevac.

What does her neighbor say about her?

Kurir also spoke with a neighbor who has known Snezana for more than three decades. His name was not published. He says that when she arrived from Valjevo she lived in the church and worked in the garden, and that she was his support when his son died:

When I was in the hardest period of my life, I lost my son in a traffic accident, she was the one who first reached out a hand to me and my family. I don’t forget that, and that’s why I have a great wish in me to help her somehow, because her voice is truly incredible.

The neighbor also said he bought a speaker and a microphone a few days ago. “When she started singing, it sounds so magical,” he told Kurir, adding that he hopes some influential people from the entertainment scene will get involved.