In an interview with GQ printed this week, the 24-time Grand Slam champion stated he “had some well being points” as soon as he returned to his native Serbia and underwent toxicology exams to seek out the trigger after his five-day detention within the Park Hotel in central Melbourne.
“And I spotted that in that lodge in Melbourne I used to be fed with some meals that poisoned me,” he stated.
“I by no means instructed this to anyone publicly, however … I had a extremely excessive stage of heavy metallic,” he added. “I had the lead, very excessive stage of lead and mercury.”
Asked if he thought it was the meals he was fed in lodge detention that made him sick, Djokovic replied, “That’s the one manner.”
The Serbian participant’s well being routine reportedly features a strict gluten and dairy-free eating regimen, morning yoga — and therapeutic water from the so-called Bosnian pyramids, a pseudo-archaeological website in central Bosnia and Herzegovina that Djokovic has touted as “miraculous.”
The Australian Border Force has not responded to the previous world No. 1’s feedback. “For privateness causes, we can not touch upon particular person instances,” the Department of Home Affairs instructed BBC Sport.