Goran Visnjic baby momma drama
jaimejeske
The more I read about this catfight, the more I want to microwave a big
batch of popcorn. Here's the backstory: In April, Goran Visnjic and his
wife, Ivana, adopted a baby boy they named Tin. Ivana then gave an
interview to the Croatian magazine, "Story," in which she made some
comments about unmarried women having babies, and then expecting the
babies' fathers to support them. A lot of single mothers and adoptive
mothers were upset by her remarks, especially since there had recently
been an incident in which one member of Parliament said another member
wasn't a "real mother" because she had adopted her baby. Around that
time, an unknown individual called numerous news outlets and said that
Goral had a "real child," and that the public would learn the truth soon
enough. The media then went on a hunt for the mystery biological child,
and somehow uncovered Mirela Rupic, a woman who went to elementary
school with Goran. Mirela at first denied that her daughter was Goran's
child, but then claimed that Lana Lourdes was Goran's daughter. She said
that Goran had been supportive of her until one night when Ivana called
her and left abusive messages on her cell phone. Goran recently gave a
PR disaster of an interview to "Story," in which he claimed that he was
drunk and jet-lagged, couldn't remember what had happened, wasn't
attracted to Mirela, etc. The comments made in the interview sounded so
unlike anything he'd ever said before that now there's speculation that
either Ivana or her family may have played a big part in that interview
(possibly writing it and sending it to the journalist in Goran's name --
from the sounds of it, the journalist is Ivana's godmother or
something), which has ruined Goran's image in Croatia. Meanwhile,
stories of Ivana's past have resurfaced. In 1992, she was engaged to a
drug-dealer, Tomy Lennart Puksec, and they both were arrested. Puksec
later died of an overdose, and Ivana was arrested again. The Croatian
press has alleged that she couldn't find a husband because of her
scandalous past, so her father, corrupt politician Antun Vrdoljak, made
some kind of deal with Goran that if Goran would marry her and take her
to Hollywood, Vrdoljak would try to "pull some strings" for him. A few
weeks ago, one of Ivana's brothers was charged with embezzling something
like 190,000 kuna. Another brother, Andrija, was disowned by their
father after he left his wife for Croatian pop singer, Vanna. Ivana and
her mother used to wear dresses made by a certain Croatian designer, but
stopped when the designer refused to stop dressing Vanna. Someone turned
up on the index.hr site calling Ivana a "botox princess," who had to
"buy" her husband and child. "Gloria" just published a twelve-page
spread on Mirela Rupic and her daughter. The order for the paternity
test hasn't been served yet, but it looks like someone must've advised
the Visnjics to sit tight and shut up for a while.
Translated by Zagreb01 at Another ER Board
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24sata.hr, July 18, 2007
"Rupic: We didn't run into each other, Visnjic called me"
The most popular woman in Sibenik at this moment, Mirela Rupic, came
into public so that she could make a comment on a big interview that
Goran Visnjic recently gave.
Mirela Rupic (36) told the media her side of the truth about the love
affair that she had with Goran Visnjic (35). She confirmed that they
were having a relationship since 2003, and that hadn't met accidentally
last summer.
"Goran and I were together for the first time in summer 2003, and we
felt chemistry between us from the very beginning, and last year in June
we didn't run into each other. He called me and asked to go out
together," Mirela said in an exclusive interview that she gave to one
Croatian weekly magazine.
She says that Goran Visnjic became afraid for his marriage when she told
him that she was pregnant, but that he also accepted the situation and
told her, "Let's go on, what happened -- it happened."
She remembered the time when she was in the fifth month of pregnancy,
and when she got two voice messages from Ivana Vrdoljak.
"When I heard the two messages of Goran's wife in my voice mail, I got
sick from insults and ugly things. I had to make an emergency call,"
said the woman from Sibenik in the interview.
She revealed that she is planning to baptize her little daughter, Lana
Lourdes, on September 9th, on Visnjic's birthday. She says that she
knows that he will not be there, by her side.
Translated by Zagreb01 and DrMom at Another ER Board:
Gloria magazine, number 654, 19.07.2006.
Exclusive interview of Mirela Rupic
journalist: Kristinka Scavina
"My truth about Goran Visnjic"
With public confession that he cheated on his wife Ivana (39) (with whom
he is in marriage for eight years), Goran Visnjic (36), star of the TV
serial "ER" , became main subject last week. His sin was on every front
page of daily newspapers and TV shows were having debates about his
case. Public was shocked with actors statements. His statements about
Mirela Rupic(36), woman from Sibenik who pressed charges against Visnjic
demanding DNA testing and alimony in amount of 10 000 kuna, were louder
than his confession about adultery. Especialy shocking ahd insulting
were were actor's words about 4 month old Lana Lourdes, for who she told
that it is a product of a one night stand, which happend to him, he
says, in condition of heavy drunkness.
In that way Goran Visnjic and his wife Ivana, daughter of movie director
Antun Vrdoljak, in only two ugly appearence in newspapers succeeded to
destroy actor's positive image (that he was building for years).
What Ivana started in her story about adopting little American boy Tin
when she told very bad things about self- supporting mothers, Goran
finished last week. He said that if it will be proved that Lana is his
daughter- one day when she groves up she is free to come visit him and
talk to him, and that they can be in good relations if she groves up in
a good-mannered creature.
Ever since the name of Mirela Rupic one month ago appeared in the press,
she and her family in Sibenik are living like under state of siege.
Mirela almost doesn't go out of the appartment because reporters and
photographs are siegeing the front door of the building where she lives
with her parents.
While we were talking to Mirela, her parents were feeding their little
granddaughter and they were amuseing her. She is a cheerful girl with a
big blue eyes and dark hair. And 13 years old Ivan, Mirela's son from
the first marriage, was playing in another room during our interview.
Later he joined us and as the real expert for technology , he helped his
mum to solve some problems with computer. Looking at her children,
Mirela is not hideing that she is proud of them and that she loves them.
Later, when we were left alone and when I turned on a dictaphone
(tapeing recorder), I saw pain and suffering on her face.
Gloria: How did you feel when you read Goran's interview in the
newspapers?
MR: It wouldn't be enough to say that I was deeply hurt and shocked. But
after all those horrible lies and insults I found the strength to tell
my self: Mirela, wait! You know very well that Goan could not look into
your eyes and say those words that he said in that interview. And he
cannot stand in front of the mirror, looking at himself, and repeat all
that because he knows very well that those were notorious lies.
Nobody ever hurt me in that way. I was reading that article and I
couldn't stop crying. I asked myself: why did he have to do iz in that
way. He could try to figure out some answers, but not to lie.
G: Did all this stress reflect on your health?
MR: I lost 5 kilograms in a week because I hardly eat one doenut in a
day. I'm not breast- feeding my daughter because I think that my milk is
not a good food for a baby, considering what situation I'm going
through. Aldo I look like I feel OK at the first sight, I'm very
sensibile person and I'm affraid of the illness. Last year doctors
diagnosed me 2 benign tumors, one under my arm and another on the left
side of my chest. So I'm affraid that they could turn into malign
because of the big stress. I had to make another control , but I didn't
because in the meanwhile I got pregnant. But I'm always repeating to
myself that this must not happen because my Lana has only me. And that
is why I have to live.
G: What opinion did you have about Goran before and what opinion do you
have now?
MR: Goran is a good person, I know that. He attracted me because he was
so simple, artless and warm. I'm not some 15 years old girl who is
fascinated with someone's status or glory. I liked him because he stayed
unchaged in spite everything that he had achieved. He was never stuck up
or arrogant. There is an expression that money and power change people.
I'm sure that they didn't change him. Today, after everything, I think
the same. I know that circumstances in some way influx him. Those were
not his words in that interview. I'm sure that somene else speaks
instead of him. I don't want to make excuses for him now. From the very
beginning I knew that he wants to stay in marriage. I swear that I never
had a goal to ruin his marriage. That is not my goal now and it will
never be. Although he hurt me dreadfully, I know that he is not a bad
person. Those hard words that he said about me, I have allready forgiven
him, but I will never forget them. I would only like if he could think
for himself more in this situation, and not to be a marionet in the
hands of the others.
G: What did hurt you the most from the things that were said?
MR: Disgusting lies that I blackmailed him with taped conversations and
that I was demanding from him to value does my silence cost 200 000 or 2
million Euros. And that I didn't tell him about my pregnancy until fifth
month of pregnancy. It also hurted me his statment that Lana is free to
go visit him one day when she grows up in a well- mannered creature. It
also hurted me that he said that he never considered me like attractive
woman. Although, those words say more about the person that said them
because I can't imagine that someone has such low criterions for sharing
his intimacy with anybody. If he was un-attractive man for me, he
certainly wouldn't be a part of my life.
G: Why dis you save Goran's voice messages?
MR: Those were messages on the machine of my mobile phone. They show
that we had normal comunication all the time, from July 2006 till
February this year, untill the conflicts that started after his wife
left me messages at 7th of February. Goran was calling me all the time,
approximately one call every week. We were talking about everything,
what have happened on the TV set of ER and about strange feeling when he
left the serial because till then he was getting up every morning at 6
o'clock. He was telling me about his plans with movie about Ante
Gotovina, he agreed to act for free in that project. There were a plenty
of nice conversations about the things that were happening to us. When
he couldn't reach me, Goran would leave a voice message on my mobile
phone telling me that he called me. I saved them just because I wanted
to have something nice from him.
G: And which conversation with Goran did you tape?
MR: Just the last one, when I realised that he is not going to recognise
Lana. He insisted that I should deny in the medias that he is the father
of child. Then he promissed to me that he will help me financially if I
will keep quiet. And that maybe after few years he will admit that she
is his. I insisted that he should recognise her presently, but he was
against that. He said that that will destroy his life.He said to me:"If
we will go to court and if we will kill each other in the newspapers,
then I don't want to have anything with her (baby), do you understand
me? And second thing- after few years, I don't know when, we will do
this in a peacefull way, then I will be able to give her some attention.
And if we will do it in this way, then I don't want to have anything
with that. Because nobody can force me to go there, to spend some time
with her or to see her".
That was a difficult conversation that opened my eyes. But I never
thought that I should blackmail him with that tape. I feel like he was
blackmailing me.
G: Were you suspicious that something will change "in a few years" and
is that the reason why you insisted that Goran should recognise Lana
immediately?
MR: Everyting else was just draging and I wanted identity for my child-
the name of the father in a birth certificate. I was never greedy for
money. I never wanted to ask anything else from Goran but alimony for
our child. This is not divorce-suit and I don't have any right to demand
his belongings.
G: Goran made a statment that- if Lana is his child, she was conceived
in a one night adventure when he was drunk. Was he really drunk that
night?
MR: That was not one night adventure and Goran and I were not drunk that
night. Goran had 2 beers that night and I had 2 deciliters of wine (one
glass). When we were together, Goran was never drunk. If we would go to
a public place- and that wasn't very often- we would have one or two
drinks and I can't tell that this is drunkenness in which would man can
lose his memory.
G: Was any of you using birth control?
MR: No. Sometimes it is difficult to find an answer on the question "Why
not?". But I never regreted it because product of that unwairness is one
beautiful little creature that I adore.
G: When did your friendship became a romance?
MR: Our relationship became more than friendship in summer 2003. He was
in Sibenik, staying for very short time, just a few days. We were with
big company (friends) in Hacienda club in Vodice, but the two of us
separeted from them and we were talking. We were not making out in a
public place, but there was chemistry between us from the very
beginning. I'm just a woman made of flesh and blood, and in that time I
was free, I liked him and It happened... Since that time and untill last
summer nothing happened between us.
G: And when did it all start again?
MR: At the beginning of June last year. Whe didn't meet accidentaly.
Goran called me on the phone and invited me to go out for a drink. It
was Friday night, and I was really tired because I was working all day
in marina. So I said that I can't go out. After 4 or 5 days he called me
again and then we went out together. Goran was staying in Sibenik till
the end of June (except he went to Egypt for few days). I would lie if I
would say that we were going out every day, but it is also not true that
we were together only one night. It happened more times. We were also
going to the public places, match between Croatia and Brasil we watched
together in one pizzeria. We were also spending time alone, just a two
of us.
G: Did Goran Visnjic ever promise you anything related to the future of
your relationship?
MR: No, nor did I expect him to. Subcounciously, maybe yes, but in real
no. We realy had a nice time together, we developed mutual atraction
combined with emotional understanding. But, both of us were aware of the
situation. Qwestion of what will become of us or his marriage, we never
brought up.
G: Did he ever tell you that he loved you?
MR: No.
G: What about your own emotions? Were you in love?
MR: I am un emotional person and I can't be intimate with a man with
whom I don't feel wery close. I dont know if that could be called
infatuation, but I surely wasn't indifferent. But, I repeat, I didn't
wish to ruin his marriage cause I don't want to build my own happyness
on somebodyelse's misfortune.
G: Were you feeling guilty because of an affair with a married man?
MR: No. I am free, without anyone to unswer qwestions about my behavior.
Goran is the one with obligation and I think that he should have thought
of his marriage. Anyway, if they split, it won't be my fault. I wish
them all the best luck.
G: Did Goran Visnjic confide in you, for example, his marital problems?
MR: After I have told him about being pregnant, he got scared about how
it would reflect on his life and marriage. He knew that some day he
should tell his wife, and he felt bad about it. We talked about that as
friends. I said that it was not my intention to ruin his life nore his
marriage, and he replyed: "If only she weren't from that family that she
is from, everything would be different.
G: While in this relationship, how did you feel about his wife -- as a
rival or just as someone far away?
MR: In my mind, I refused to think about her.
G: When did you realize that you were pregnant?
MR: By the end of July, after my period missed, I did a home test. When
it turned positive, I was shocked. Then I've sent SMS to Goran to call
me. So he did and I told him I was pregnant. He was suprised, and
replyed that we shall discusse it in person when he comes in Sibenik in
a couple of days. (He was cruising on a yaht at The Adriatic sea with
his wife and some friends). He came to Sibenik on July 28th or 29th,
called me, and we went around 11AM on an old fortress Subicevac, to talk
in peace. We talked inside the car, cause we din't want anyone to spot
us.
G: How did Goran respond after you told him?
MR: He was very kind and gentle to me, althougt it was obviously that it
was very difficult to him. Even thou we discussed that too, Goran didn't
asked me to terminate my pregnancy. I will never forget his sentence
:"I'm afraid to speak a word in order not to say something wrong." He
showed me so much humanity and suptility in himself, with that single
sentence.He ended our conversation with: "We'll talk more over the
phone." And really, when we spoke on the phone he said: "OK, now, what
it is , it is. Let's move ahead"
G: Did he call you back after his return to the U.S., or did you call
him?
MR: He called me. If I wanted to hear from him, I would leave a voice
message, and he would called back, same or next day. As I had to stay at
home, laying in bad, because of pregnancy complications, I was home
alone on the New Years Eve. And G. called at 23.50 and we talked untill
midnight.
I will never forget that so human gesture of his. Cause It was clear to
me from the very beginning that he is in love with his wife, and that we
will never be together, inspite the child that was already on the way.
But that call on New Years midnight, I saw as a human gentle stroke, to
make me feel better at a difficult moment.
G: When did he tell his wife that he would have a baby with you?
MR: He called on feb 7th and said that he told her everything and that
she already forgave him. I replyed that I expected no more. Than he ,
for the first time asked me to not reveal anyone that he was the father.
G: What happened next?
MR: I swiched off my cell, for it was 11PM. In the morning, there were 2
voice messages from his Wife. I almost collapsed, when I heard what she
said to me. Such disgusting insults and vulgarity could rarly be heard.
I was 8 months pregnant, I got sick and was rushed to the ER, ended on
IV.
G: Why was your pregnancy risky?
MR: I had to ly in bed 4 the whole pregnancy, ended up in hospital only
2 weeks after I knew I was pregnant, due to a bleeding, which scared me.
I was so week and miserable that nigth, thinking that I just might loose
my baby that nigth. G. called 12 (twelwe) times, cause he knew that
there was complications in the meanwhile, but I couldn't answer. He
called from skiing vacations when I lied in hospital bed for serclation
operation. He was very warried, but also frightend, cause at the time he
hadn't confess to his wife yet.
I was 5 times hospitalized during pregnancy, and G. contacted with me
all the time
G: Were you frightened that there wouldn't be a father to await you in
the maternity ward?
MR: While I was still pregnant and in hospital, it was so painfull to
watch other men visiting there's pregnant partners. However strong, it
hurts u inside so much. I remember in December night, while I was in the
hospital, there was a movie "Long Dark Night" (by Antun Vrdoljak, Ivana
Visnjic's father as a director- Dr Mom), with G, in the main role. It
was Sunday evening, and no one in the room noticed that I was crying. I
shread a whole lots of tears, during pregnancy, and later. Last 2 months
of my pregnancy tears would just run down my cheaks, when ever I heard a
song "An Angel Inside You", (by (Croatian singer Gibonny- a song that
tells about a father who refuses to recognise a child)- cause I
recognised G. atittude not to admitt his child in it, but I have also
find a strenght to endure, knowing that I'm the only suport in life my
baby-girl has. Ther, biological mother of baby Tin had a perfect
conditions while giving birth with desired Bob Marley music, and I was
searching for strenght in, (very sad Croatian pop-song; Transl.), that
"An Angel Inside You" song. That's life.
G: After giving birth to Lana, when did you speak to Goran Visnjic
again?
MR: We spoke the day before, and he also called on March 22nd, - day
after Lana was born. But I could'n answer, so he just left a voice mail,
and called again on 24., and that day he heard 4 the 1. time from me
that we got a baby girl. There's no conditions 4 long converations in
maternity ward, but I gazed in Lana as we spoke, and tried to decribe
him what she looked like. She was 3550 grams /51 cm, had a long dark
hair, and nurses did her hairstyle every morning. I was sorry that I
couldn't have sent him a picture, cause his American network don't alow
MMS.
G: What will you say to Goran Visnjic next time you see him, even if it
is in court?
MR: What ever I have to say, it won't be harsh. He is the father of my
child, and if I said anything bad about him , that would be as spitting
on myself. I can't imagine saying ugly, nasty things about someone I've
been intimate with. Whatever bad he ever said about be, I won't return
in the same tone.
Jaime
debz...@gmail.com
The Croatian
> press has alleged that she couldn't find a husband because of her
> scandalous past, so her father, corrupt politician Antun Vrdoljak, made
> some kind of deal with Goran that if Goran would marry her and take her
> to Hollywood, Vrdoljak would try to "pull some strings" for him.
ER Star Awarded Damages Over Magazine Article
23 January 2002 (WENN)
ER star Goran Visnjic has been awarded $5,000 in libel damages from a
Croatian magazine. The actor - who was born in Croatia - sued Globus
magazine after they claimed Visnjic and his wife were living in a Los
Angeles mansion without paying any rent. The article, titled Secret Of
The 1.5 Million Dollar Villa also accused the star of using family
ties to get his role as Doctor Luka Kovac on ER. The court concluded
the allegations were false, partly as a result of rent receipts
Visnjic produced in evidence. It was also accepted that Visnjic got
his breakthrough ER role thanks to hard work and not to any connection
with Hollywood producer Branko Lustig.
debz
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