At the 2022 Australian Open, Novak Djokovic He probably lived through the most difficult period of his career. Balkan’s refusal to receive a Covid vaccine led to his being locked up in a Melbourne hotel and deported.
A process that became a media circus and, to this day, It still represents the “pain” of the old number 1, as he revealed in a recent interview.
Earlier in the run-up to the tournament, Djokovic also spoke about his experience in the first magazine of the year, going even one step further. The tennis player in Belgrade now claims he was “killed” by being kicked out. “I had some health problems. And I realized that in the closed hotel they gave me the food that killed me,” he says in an interview with ‘GQ’.
Djokovic, at the airport at the time of his deportation / EFE
Nole explains that when he returned to his country he felt sad, as if he had it “a simple cold.” The condition worsened until he became debilitated and needed treatment at home by an emergency physician. “I did it a few times and then I had to take a toxicology test,” he says.
“I have never said this to anyone in public; but I realized that it had very heavy metals. “He had lead, very high levels of lead and mercury,” says the tennis player, who believes that the only way these things could have reached his body was through the food he was given at the hotel where he was confined. Before the Australian government left town.
In January 2022, Djokovic arrived in Melbourne to take part in the Australian Open without the covid-19 vaccine.although it was legal in Australia at the time. Due to the circumstances, the Australian authorities denied him entry into the country and decided to appeal the decision. While the court was discussing his case, The tennis player was kept in a hotel room for 10 days and eventually kicked out.