Chappell Roan addresses claims her security made Jorginho's daughter cry: 'I do not hate children'
Chappell Roan has broken her silence regarding Brazilian football star Jorginho Frello's allegations that her security guard made his 11-year-old stepdaughter cry.
The Pink Pony Club singer, who performed at Lollapalooza Brazil, took to Instagram stories to share her part of the story on March 22.
"I'm just gonna 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. I didn't even see a woman and a child. No one came up to me. No one bothered me," she said.
In his post, Jorginho claimed that Roan walked past his family's table, and his daughter got excited after recognizing her. He added that the 11-year-old didn't approach the artist, but just walked past her table to confirm it was her.
The football star said that a large security guard allegedly came over to their table and spoke in an "extremely agressive" manner to his wife and daughter, telling his wife not to allow the child to "disrespect" or "harass" other people.
The child was "extremely shaken and cried a lot," as per Jorginho.
Roan cleared the air, saying, "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 didn't do anything."
The Good Luck, Babe! singer went on to say it's "unfair" for security to assume that the mother and child didn't have good intentions, "because there's no action taken."
Roan added, "And I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. That is crazy. I'm sorry to the mother and child that someone would assume that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that."
Jorginho's wife, Catherine Harding, also shared her side in an Instagram reel on March 23.
"100% this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel, that's what I can say. He looks after artists," she said, adding she doesn't know if the man was part of Roan's personal security team.
Harding added that it's unclear whether Roan sent the guard to talk to them.
"[You] have a responsibility when you are a celebrity to make sure, I guess, that the people who work for you and that act on your behalf are acting on your behalf. Would he do that if he didn't have her authority to do so? I don't know. If he does, then, obviously that's a big problem because then he's representing her in a way that she doesn't want to be represented," she said.
Roan previously made headlines for repeatedly coming to blows with the paparazzi, emphasizing the need for personal space. She recently went viral during a trip in Paris where she called out a group of photographers and admirers who were waiting outside the restaurant, telling them, “I’m being disregarded as a human… I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me.”
