🎾 Jelena Dokic Confirms Death Of Estranged Father Damir Dokic

Jelena Dokic has confirmed that her estranged father, Damir, has died aged 67.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jery and Amanda Jamn, I beg.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your parent is fraud and I was just thinking about
Elena Dokic. Demir has passed away and at the age
of sixty seven, and they went on speaking terms. He
left the country, went away. I don't speak ill of
the dead, but you know, but how conflicting it is
Father of the Year awards.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
No, it's not. And she's written about her struggle with
the emotional and physical abuse she copped his at his side,
And as she said here, it's never easy losing a
parent and a father, even if you're estranged from them.
The loss of an a strange parent comes with a
difficult and complicated grief. So whether you see them as

(00:42):
your traditional appropriate guardian or not, there's a lot of
mixed emotions she'll be feeling right now, as she says.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
And we spoke to her only just the last year
with her book, and I asked, did she actually receive
an apology from Demir? Have you ever had an apology
from your father?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
No, I haven't. I haven't. I've tried to reconcile with
him at one stage, years and years ago, but it's
not possible, I think ultimately, no matter what you go
through I think with your family or your parents, you
kind of feel like maybe you can get to a
stage where things can change and you can have a relationship.

(01:23):
But no, I don't. I think when someone isn't even
able to say sorry, or when they actually think that
they did everything right and in fact, in his words,
he will do it all over again, that's where you
draw the line. Especially as you get older, you need
to get that toxicity out of your life.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
She's a very impressive woman, Elena.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Docky, absolutely, and she's been so vulnerable and so open
in talking about her relationship with him, and the post
she did yesterday about him passing was no different.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it was very from her perspective. It's about letting go.
When you're a parent, you know you don't have all
the answers.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
We assume that parents have the children's best interest at heart.
Don't victor here. That's not always the case.