Tennis star Jelena Dokic makes heartbreaking confession about her insulting father

Jelena Dokic has made a heartbreaking admission about the years of abuse they suffered by the hands of her alienated father, Damir.

Talk about the Mental as everyone podcastThe former tennis star, 42, admitted that although she cannot forgive her father with whom she has not spoken for more than ten years, she still cannot bring herself to hate him.

“People say a bit that you have to forgive, not for your abuser or someone who has caused you pain, but for yourself,” she said.

‘But I am not sure if I agree with that, because I don’t necessarily have to forgive him to continue.

Jelena continued: ‘I think you should accept the circumstances. Accepting that that was my life, the cards I had received, that’s fine, but I don’t hate him. Maybe that sounds strange, but I don’t forgive him either. ‘

On the podcast, too, Jelena told details about the abuse she suffered by her father, and admitted that she was afraid he would kill her.

Jelena Dokic (photo) has made a heartbreaking admission about the years of abuse she suffered by her father, Damir

“At the age of 19 I left the house, escaped during a tennis tournament because the blows became so violent and I didn’t know if I would survive the next,” she said.

“Much of that pressure and abuse went on,” she added.

‘My father continued to make my life very difficult, but it was more the fact that the trauma and my mental health really took a turn and at the age of 22 in 2005 I almost took my own life.

“I didn’t know it at the time, but I fought against fear, depression, PTSD, even an eating disorder that continued, although I continued to play on the Tour.”

Jelena, who has since reinvented himself as a commentator and sports analyst, added that, despite her testing and the subsequent aftermath, she does not want to be considered a victim.

“I don’t want people to consider me a victim, I am a survivor, but the most important thing is that Thiriver, a success story,” she said.

“I want people to go:” You know, she did it, I can do it too. “

Jelena’s revelation comes after she said she would suffer from ‘100 years of abuse’ from her father if it meant that she could undo her decision to play her for Australia.

She represented Australia early in her career, but announced in 2001 that she was turning her back on her new house and would represent Yugoslavia instead.

Speaking of the mental podcast when everyone, the former tennis star, 41, admitted that she had white that she is still unable to forgive her father, with whom she has not spoken for more than ten years, she does not ‘hate’ him.

“People say a bit that you have to forgive, not for your abuser or someone who has caused you pain, but for yourself,” she said. ‘But I’m not sure … I agree because I don’t necessarily have to forgive him to continue

Jelena appeared on the Carrie & Tommy show in November and admitted that her father was behind the controversial decision and she wished it had never happened.

“I would take 100 years of abuse if I couldn’t play for Australia for a few years,” she said.

“He took away from me, something I loved so much.

“He took that from me at the time. He is sitting in a hotel room and looks this while I am boosted by 15,000 people. I just wanted to fall into the ground and disappear and never come back.

“I would take abuse, everything in this world not to just continue that, but that it did not cost my people, Australians and my fans and anyone who always won for me, that it didn’t take 10 or 15 years until my book came out to know the truth and how much I really love Australia.”

Jelena described the moving physical and mental abuse that she suffered from her father’s hands in her autobiography 2017 Unbreakable.

The book was then adjusted in a documentary, Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story, which was released in cinemas in 2024.

The documentary was also broadcast on Channel Nine in January 2025.

“I don’t want people to consider me a victim, I am a survivor, but the most important thing is that Thiriver, a success story,” she said. “I want people to go,” you know, she did it, I can do it too. “

After the broadcast of the small screen, social media relieved with support for the former world number four, which confirmed that she was once struck unconscious by her father after a defeat on the field.

Legend -legend Brendan Fevola called Dokic’s story ‘horrible’, while former Uzbekistan tennis star Denis Istomin stated that she had the potential to be as good as Tennis Great Serena Williams.

Other tennis fans praised Dokic for her strength and resilience, with another supporter He stated his conviction that she would have won several Grand Slam titles’ If she had ‘normal people around her’.

Jelena’s tennis career when she made the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 1999 and in 2000 in 2000, followed by the French Open Quarter Finals of 2002.