Tanja Savic on Why She Stopped Talking to Slavica Cukteras
In a statement to Skandal, the singer explained why she went years without speaking to her colleague from the first season of Zvezde Granda. Media outlets picked it up again on October 5.
Singer Tanja Savic says her friendship with Slavica Cukteras fell apart over a scene in a car at the seaside in Montenegro. On October 5 that explanation made the rounds of the media again, and it comes from a statement Tanja gave Skandal earlier.
What happened in the car?
Both singers began their careers in the first season of the talent show Zvezde Granda and were considered inseparable friends. Tanja told Skandal that they were on holiday in Montenegro, and her boyfriend at the time was driving them from the beach back to the hotel.
“The two of us were in Montenegro at the seaside back then, we were coming back from the beach and my boyfriend gave us a lift to the hotel. I sat in the front passenger seat, and she sat in the back.”
According to Tanja, Slavica at one point lifted her shirt and flashed her boyfriend in the rearview mirror. Tanja added: “I was shocked, I couldn’t believe what that woman had done!”
Why did they not speak for years?
Tanja described that incident as the decisive moment in the end of their friendship. She told Skandal:
“That is the reason we didn’t talk for years. She disappointed me a lot, I saw her as a sister, we shared everything, we were inseparable.”
Afterward, as media reports put it, they made up and appeared together on TV shows. The reconciliation did not last, though, and in recent years neither has commented on the other. The story of what drove them apart has circulated in the press for years, and Tanja’s statement was a rare concrete explanation.
Who came to Tanja’s concert at the Belgrade Arena?
Slavica Cukteras was not among the guests at Tanja’s solo concert at the Belgrade Arena. Of the original Zvezde Granda lineup, only singer Bane Mojicevic showed up, and he spoke to Mondo about that evening:
“For me it was truly wonderful. I felt comfortable in the company of people dear to me whom I don’t often get a chance to meet. My kids were with me at the Arena, which gave a special feel to the whole spectacle. It was truly lovely, I felt proud of her and of myself, for being part of that magnificent evening.”
He also addressed the absence of the other former members of the group:
“It’s completely natural that she chose to devote herself to a solo concert rather than a performance with all of us. I don’t see anything unnatural in that. We all have a choice, and I believe I did the right thing by being there for her that night and supporting her. I don’t know how the rest of the group thinks, but obviously they don’t share my opinion since they weren’t there that night, but I have nothing against it.”
Mojicevic is thus the only one from that circle to publicly side with Tanja over the concert.
What does Slavica Cukteras say?
Slavica’s side has not been carried in the reports on this statement, and she does not comment in them. The account of the incident in the car therefore remains Tanja’s alone, as she told it to Skandal.
