Chappell Roan Responds to Incident Involving Soccer Star's Daughter at São Paulo Hotel

Chappell Roan is speaking out after claims surfaced that her security team allegedly left Jorginho's 11-year-old daughter in tears following an encounter at a São Paulo hotel.

The 28-year-old pop star, who performed at Lollapalooza Brazil on Saturday (March 21), took to her Instagram Story Sunday morning to share her side of the story. This followed Jorginho's social media post alleging that his daughter was “extremely shaken” after a security guard reportedly confronted her and her mother during breakfast, accusing the child of “harassment” simply for recognizing the singer and smiling.

“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,” Roan said, lying in bed at the start of her video.

“I didn’t even see,” she continued. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. No one came up to me. 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.”

Roan added, “I did not ask the security guard to go up to 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.”

The pop star concluded, “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 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 his Instagram post, Jorginho stated that his wife, Catherine Harding, and their 11-year-old daughter were staying at a São Paulo hotel ahead of Roan’s headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil when they spotted the singer at the hotel restaurant during breakfast.

“My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” the midfielder shared, noting she didn’t approach Roan or ask for anything.

He claimed the encounter quickly escalated when a security guard allegedly confronted his family, speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” and accusing his daughter of “disrespect” and harassment, even threatening to file a complaint with the hotel, leaving his daughter “extremely shaken” and in tears.