Novak Djokovic has declined to address a past statement about getting sick in Australia in 2022. The 10-time Australian Open champion said at a news conference Friday that he didn't want to rehash what he describes as a months-old interview with GQ magazine in which he said he had high levels of metal in his blood from food he was served while detained before being deported from Melbourne three years ago.

In that hotel in Melbourne I was fed with some food that poisoned me,” Serbian champ says about his infamous Covid detention.

Novak Djokovic alleged in a lengthy GQ interview that he was “poisoned” by lead and mercury in his food while he was briefly held in Melbourne in 2022.