Djokovic’s most traumatic confession, he recounted in detail what happened! His father was carrying his brothers, he fell and saw a bomb.

Novak, bombing, Photo: Youtube / LOĆA

The best tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic, received the host at his grandfather’s house, where he remembered the ’99 bombing and the time he spent with his family there.

“First of all, I regret not having an apple here, because every time I walked into this apartment, and talked about it with my wife, I remembered the time we came here and one of the biggest memories is the photo of my grandfather cutting an apple in front of me. ” and that was his “thing”, no matter what happened in the world, he would cut his apple his way, and I still use his technique today, although it’s dangerous for my hands, I still do it because of the memory of him, “he said . is Novak Djokovic and added:

“And this is an apartment where I spent a lot of time with my brothers, my parents, my aunt and their family, there were a lot of people here, especially in ’99 during the bombing. We lived in an apartment a mile away.” But we always came to this apartment, to this building, every night God knows how many of them, but especially on the nights of the bombing because this building has a shelter. It was a terrifying experience for everyone, especially for the children, we didn’t realize it. what happens, why the bome flies over our heads, who does, but at the same time, after a month we stopped reacting, I remember celebrating my 12th birthday at the tennis club where I grew up and the plane was passing just during the birthday song. You don’t know how terrible that experience is, how helpless you are. You are on the ground and someone is flying in the sky and throwing bombs, “Novak Djokovic said in a shocking confession.

Novak Djokovic, Photo: EPA-EFE / ALI HAIDER

Novak Djokovic also recounted the moment he slipped while running away from home with his family.

“It was the first or second night of the bombing. We fell asleep just the second time that night, there was a powerful explosion, my mother got up quickly and hit her head on the radiator and fell unconscious. We cried because of the bombs and because she was not My father was there and he wondered what was going on. He managed to help my mother and get her back, we quickly packed up our things and went out of the house to the street where there was no light. It was very loud, we couldn’t hear each other. that we were close and that you were screaming, no one would hear you. My father was carrying brothers, mom things, and I slipped at one point and saw with my own eyes an airplane flying and dropping bombs while the ground shook naturally. the most traumatic images of my childhood to date. I think my family was lucky because we did not lose someone close, and there were many families that are, and that is a special level of suffering and trauma I can’t even imagine that pain through which “Djokovic said.

He also accompanied the team to a shelter under his grandfather Vlada’s apartment.

“We spend almost every night here. It’s crazy when you think about the number of people who had to come to the shelter and hide from the danger that comes from the air. And yes, it looks the same as it did 20 years ago. I’m trying to remember how many there were people, but there was an entire building that had more than 50 apartments, with families with children, there wasn’t much space, “Djokovic said, adding:

“I don’t remember all the things here, I was very small. We felt insecure, not knowing what the next moment would bring to me, my family … I remember that there was a lot of fear, tears and suffering here in the first days, and after five, for six days people started singing, playing cards and began to accept reality, that they would have to come here every night and pray that everything would be all right. “