Goca Trzan on Ivan Marinkovic: It Has Been 11 Years
The singer says Lena refused to meet her father, that she keeps his messages and screenshots, and that Rasa Novakovic is the only male figure in Lena's life besides her grandfather.
Goca Trzan said in an interview published on October 20, 2026, that her ex-husband Ivan Marinkovic and their daughter Lena have had no contact for 11 years. The singer says she does not hate him, but she refuses to take the blame for everything.
Kurir and Telegraf carried the interview, and their accounts differ on where it was recorded. Kurir cites Full Screen Media, while Telegraf names the show “Scandal”. Neither piece includes a response from Ivan Marinkovic, so everything below is Goca’s side of the story.
What does Goca say about 11 years without contact?
Goca began with the question of how long Ivan has gone without seeing his daughter. She answered it herself: “It has been 11 years.” In all that time, she says, she never kept the child from her father.
“I don’t hate him. It’s like speaking of the dead who have no monument. I never kept the child away from her father.”
She added that, in her view, Ivan is “talking nonsense” because time in the reality show, as she put it, obviously passes quickly for him. That was her answer to claims that she stood in the way of their relationship.
She also goes back to the time when Lena was eight. Back then, according to Goca, she asked her daughter every day whether she wanted to see her father. Ivan was on the reality show “Parovi” at the time. Goca says she did not let Lena watch reality programs because she thinks they are bad for a child. Lena, she says, never asked to watch them anyway.
Why, according to Goca, did Lena refuse to see him?
The singer claims Lena spotted a pattern on her own: her father calls her only when he is about to enter a new reality show. Goca says she asked her daughter “a million times” whether she wanted to see her dad, and that Lena answered that it would be embarrassing to go there.
The most detailed part of the story concerns their last conversation. By Goca’s retelling, Lena asked her father:
“Why are you calling me now, after so many years?”
Goca says Ivan replied: “Well, Mom didn’t allow it.” That is her account of the conversation, and Ivan’s version has not been published.
The singer also says it hurts that she is being judged from inside a reality show. She believes it is easier for Ivan if she takes the blame for everything. She added that, as she put it, she is also to blame for him being in the reality show now and earning money.
Which messages does Goca keep?
Goca also recalled a message that Ivan, by her account, once sent to Lena. She relayed it like this:
“Girl, don’t talk to me like that, I’m a reality player.”
The singer says she has about two gigabytes of messages and screenshots and keeps all of it “just in case.” What bothered her most, she claims, is that Ivan stresses to his daughter that he is a reality player.
Rasa Novakovic and the surname change
Goca also spoke about her husband, Radomir “Rasa” Novakovic. She says he has been in Lena’s life since she was five. According to her, he took part in raising her, taught her to swim and to cut with a knife, and never judged her.
Speaking about him, she corrected one point:
“I never said that Lena calls Rasa ‘dad’.”
In her words, Rasa is the only male figure in Lena’s life besides her grandfather. She says it is rude that Ivan no longer spares Lena now that she is an adult, and that in her opinion all he needs is the nation’s support because he is a reality player now.
The singer also revealed that Lena has wanted to change her surname for a long time. Goca says she told her it was too early and that she should wait until she grows and matures a bit.
Lena Trzan has come up in our earlier coverage. We reported that she enrolled in psychology instead of production at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
