Chappell Roan is telling her side of the story after Brazilian soccer player Jorginho Frello slammed the pop star and her team’s “extremely aggressive” treatment of his daughter at a São Paulo hotel on Saturday.
The athlete alleged on his Instagram Story that one of the Grammy winner’s security guards confronted his wife and daughter at the hotel they were both staying at after his child “simply walked past the singer’s table, looked to confirm it was her, smiled, and went back to sit with her mum.”
Frello did not share the name of the child, though his wife, Catherine Harding, shares an 11-year-old daughter with Jude Law.
Roan, who is headlining Lollapalooza Brazil in São Paulo, took to her Instagram Story Sunday morning to address the situation, clarifying that her “personal security” was not involved.
“I’m just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard who is not my personal security,” the “Pink Pony Club” artist detailed in a video. “I didn’t even see, I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, no one came up to me. No one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.”
“The fact that a security guard who was… I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions when they have no reason to believe, because there’s no action even taken. I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. Like that is crazy,” Roan continued. “I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
In Frello’s lengthy social media post, he said his daughter “was so happy to see an artist she really admires, or used to admire” before the hotel incident.
“By coincidence, they’re staying at the same hotel as this artist. During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like any child, recognised [sic] her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it really was her,” he explained. “And the worst part is she didn’t even approach her. She simply walked past the singer’s table, looked to confirm it was her, smiled, and went back to sit with her mum. She didn’t say anything, didn’t ask for anything.”
Shortly after, that’s when the soccer star said “a large security guard came over to their table while they were still having breakfast and began speaking in an extremely aggressive manner to both my wife and daughter, saying that she shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people.”
Frello wrote that his “daughter was extremely shaken and cried a lot” following the interaction. He added in his post, “It’s sad to see this kind of treatment coming from those who should understand the importance of fans. At the end of the day, they are the ones who build all of this. I sincerely hope this serves as a moment of reflection. No one should have to go through this, especially not a child.”
Since Roan’s rise in fame, she’s been known to speak her mind about aggressive fan behavior and set firm boundaries when it comes to nonconsensual physical and social interactions in public.
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