Sloba Vasic Denies Monk Rumor, Wife Says Robe Photo Is AI
The singer denied he is entering a monastery, and his wife Jelena tells Telegraf the photo is AI-generated and that he spent the whole summer playing gigs across the region.
Singer Sloba Vasic has denied reports that he is leaving show business to become a monk, and his wife Jelena (Lela) Vasic tells Telegraf that the photo of him in a black robe was made with artificial intelligence. After the denial, the singer posted again on Instagram, this time a video from a private celebration.
How did the photo in the robe spread?
A photo of Vasic in a black robe, the kind worn by clergy and monks, circulated on social media. Claims followed that the singer had decided to give up music and take monastic vows.
Vasic soon denied those reports and explained that the photo was created with the help of artificial intelligence. The sequence of events looks like this:
- a photo of the singer in a robe appeared on social media
- stories spread that he was leaving show business
- Vasic denied them and said the image was artificially made
- he then posted a video from a private celebration on Instagram
What did the singer say on Instagram?
Vasic added a single sentence to the celebration video. “You must do only what God created you for,” he wrote in the post. Media read the message as a sign that the singer is staying in music, although the post itself mentions neither show business nor the photo in the robe.
What did his wife say about the photo?
Jelena Vasic told Telegraf the picture is fake and explained where the singer actually was. She said:
This past summer Sloba was at Ostrog with our daughter, and this is an AI photo. He has never put on a robe.
Ostrog is a monastery in Montenegro. His wife then added how the singer spent the rest of the summer: “After Ostrog he went off to play gigs and worked all summer in Montenegro, Bosnia, Slovenia and Croatia,” she told Telegraf.
By her account, then, Vasic performed in four countries after Ostrog rather than withdrawing from public life.
What else is being written about the singer?
Alongside the robe story, regional media are writing about an alleged divorce of Sloba and Jelena Vasic. According to those reports, messages have surfaced in which the singer invites another woman to his apartment, and he has also left the family home. Those claims are unconfirmed: in their statements about the photo in the robe, neither the singer nor his wife confirms or comments on them.
