Invited to Andale Media's "The Dalina Show" , Tuna opened up about her private life and the challenges she has faced as a single mother for the past three years. In conversation with Dalina, she spoke openly about her relationship with the father of her children, musician Patris Berisha, with whom she has two sons: Tiani and Zeni.

In the conversation with Dalina, Tuna began to confess that her little boy, Zeni, is her "biggest lesson":

"He challenges me 24/7. Zeni is a child who, when he sings around the house, doesn't want applause, he's not satisfied with less. He challenges me every second, in every movement of life."

At the center of her world, Tuna explained that now it's only her sons' schedules and needs:

"I have both of them as priorities in my life, my schedules are not my schedules, they are Tian's and Zen's schedules, then Tuna's and everything else, so I have them as priorities."

But balancing parenthood and her profession is a difficult struggle:

"But the balance, especially when you're in this profession, I have to say it's very difficult for women, especially as a single mother, it's very difficult. This struggle between this balance is scary."

Asked by Dalina about the feeling of guilt when leaving home, Tuna reveals that it has been part of her life for years:

"Every time I leave the house I feel guilty. I don't have the luxury of time to have a social life, I didn't even have one when I was young. My life has been different from the beginning."

Even breaking up with her ex-partner, Patris, was not an easy path, and Tuna does not hesitate to admit this:

"Anyone who interprets that the divorce has ended amicably, to me it is a lie. Because, divorce itself is a drama in itself, especially when children are involved in this drama."

However, the singer is determined to create the best possible atmosphere for the children:

"I continue to believe and fight for healthy parenting, because I want to raise my two sons in a family spirit, even if we are divorced, so that they do not feel the absence of a male figure, a father. It is difficult, but we will succeed."

She revealed that cooperation for the good of boys is the biggest challenge of recent years:

"We are both trying for the good of our two children and this is where I have the biggest battle in recent years. Because Patrice and I divorced during my second pregnancy, which was a very difficult decision at the time."

But besides the divorce, Tuna also faced other personal and family battles:

"At that time, I moved, I returned to Skopje, I had not lived in Skopje for years and I had gotten out of the flow, out of the complete situation, out of my hometown for years and I was struggling with health problems in my family, both of my parents.

"I 'opened the door' and within a week my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, my dad had a heart attack and I was pregnant. That's why Zen is Zen, because it's the struggle for balance and to maintain my spiritual state, to prepare myself for the role I now had as a single mother."

Tuna also shed light on the reasons for her separation from Patris Berisha, which according to her was not the result of a single event, but of a collection of challenges:

"We didn't have any of those dramas that had a concrete reason [for the divorce], it was just a lot of things coming together. It was a great courage, so much so that even today when I look at it from a different perspective I say 'What the hell?!'. But I never regret it, for me a mother should be happy first and foremost to raise two happy children. And I was no longer happy in that marriage."

And about the prejudices she has felt throughout all the dramas related to her romantic life, she said:

"When I decided to give birth to Zen in the hospital, I had been hiding my pregnancy for nine months. Why did I have to hide it? Why did it have to be like this? I only had one moment when I said 'I don't care, I'll share it' and I took out photos with my son a few hours after the birth. It's normal that I had prejudices and continue to be prejudiced, I've carried this on my shoulders for years. But I've become a little more sensitive since I took on the role of a mother because it hurts me a little. I have children who I don't want to read or hear these comments tomorrow, they have hurt me a lot."

Tuna became a mother for the first time in 2017, when she gave birth to her eldest son Tian. After a period of events and tensions, her and Patris' separation was confirmed in 2020, although in 2021 they gave their relationship a second chance and Zen, their second son, was born.

However, as the singer confirmed in the interview, their relationship ended during her second pregnancy. Their marriage lasted about four years, as their paths parted amid personal and family challenges.

Full interview on "The Dalina Show":

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