Novak Djokovic claims he was POISONED on eve of Australian Open - 'That’s the only way'
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Novak Djokovic has claimed that he may have been poisoned while he was staying in a Melbourne hotel during his visa fiasco three years ago. Djokovic was kicked out of the country before the Australian Open in January 2022 after refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The fiasco was a huge story at the time, with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke getting personally involved in his case.
The Serbian had planned to defend his title by using a medical exemption, which had been greenlighted by the state government and Tennis Australia, only for the Australian Border Force to intervene. Djokovic was eventually forced to leave Australia, but is now back Down Under and aiming to win a record-extending 11th Australian Open title.
Speaking before the tournament gets underway this weekend, Djokovic made a remarkable claim, suggesting that his illness upon returning home to Serbia in January 2022 may have been caused by foul play during a five-day stay at an immigration hotel. “I realised that in that hotel in Melbourne I was fed with some food that poisoned me,” he told GQ.
"I had some discoveries when I came back to Serbia. I never told this to anybody publicly, but discoveries that I was, I had a really high level of heavy metal. Heavy metal. I had the lead, very high level of lead and mercury." Asked if it had been put in his food, Djokovic replied: “That’s the only way.”.
Djokovic, who observes a meticulous diet, brought in an emergency medical team to treat him. “Yeah, very sick. It was like the flu, just a simple flu. But when it was days after that a simple flu took me down so much,” he added. “I had that several times and then I had to do toxicology [tests].”.
