Watch: Chappell Roan Speaks Out After Allegedly Leaving Jude Law’s 11-Year-Old Daughter “in Tears”
Chappell Roan knows a recent fan encounter was neither fine nor cool.
After soccer star Jorginho claimed his 11-year-old stepdaughter Ada—who his wife Catherine Harding shares with ex Jude Law—had an unsavory interaction with the “Pink Pony Club” singer and a member of her security team, Chappell told “her half of the story.”
Addressing Jorginho’s claim that her security guard was “aggressive” towards his wife and daughter, Chappell noted that the individual “was not my personal security.”
“I didn’t even see a woman and a child. No one came up to me,” Chappell, 28, said in a video posted to Instagram Stories March 22. “No one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel, as well.”
“I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child,” she added. “They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything.”
The Grammy winner—who has received backlash in the past for how she sets boundaries with her fans as well as paparazzi—also noted how she wholeheartedly disagreed with the security guard’s actions.
“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,” she explained. “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. Like, that is crazy.”
“I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming that you would do something and if you felt uncomfortable,” Chappell (born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz) added. “That makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
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Her comments come one day after Jorginho—who didn’t refer to Ada directly by name—alleged that his wife and daughter were mistreated by Chappell’s security guard while enjoying breakfast at the same hotel as the “Casual” singer in São Paulo, Brazil, where Ada was set to see Chappell perform at Lollapalooza March 21.
“By coincidence, they’re staying at the same hotel as this artist,” he wrote on Instagram Stories March 21. “During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like any child, recognized her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her.”
“And the worst part is she didn’t even approach her,” he continued. “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.”
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After his daughter walked by, Jorginho alleged in the post that a security guard then approached their table “in an extremely aggressive manner,” saying that Catherine “shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people.”
“Honestly, I don’t know at what point simply walking past a table and looking to see if someone is there can be considered harassment,” the athlete continued, alleging that the security guard “even said he would file a complaint against them with the hotel, while my 11-year-old daughter was sitting there in tears.”
Noting that his daughter “was extremely shaken and cried a lot” over the situation, he even offered Chappell a few words of advice for how to approach excited fans moving forward.
“It’s sad to see this kind of treatment coming from those who should understand the importance of fans,” he wrote. “At the end of the day, they are the ones who build all of this.”
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