“Pink Pony Club” singer Chappell Roan has been accused of unleashing a beefy security guard on actor Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter.
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The incident at a hotel in São Paulo, Brazil, triggered a social media outcry — even prompting the mayor of Rio de Janeiro to ban Chappell from performing in his city.
According to an Instagram post, the girl simply walked by the pop star’s restaurant table, prompting the guard to confront her and her mother in “an extremely aggressive manner.”
The post, by Brazilian-born soccer star Jorginho Frello, didn’t name the girl, but it was apparently his stepdaughter Ada, whose mom is Law’s ex, Irish singer Catherine Harding.
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Chappell was in town to perform at Brazil’s version of the Lollapalooza music festival and Catherine and her daughter were staying at the same hotel.
In his post, per The Hollywood Reporter, Jorginho said Ada really admired Chappell and noticed the Grammy winner walk past their table while she and her mother were having breakfast.
Ada “recognized her, got excited and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” he wrote. “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.”
That’s when, in a “completely disproportionate” response, the “large security guard” approached their table “and began speaking in an extremely aggressive manner to both my wife and my daughter, saying she should not allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people,” Jorginho wrote.
“My daughter was extremely shaken and cried a lot.”
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In a social media post, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Cavalierewrote while “I’m in charge of our city — this young lady @ChappellRoan will never perform at” the city’s famed Copacabana Beach.
The Grammy-winning singer — who has slammed fans for harassing her in the past — quickly defended herself.
On her Instagram Stories, Chappell insisted the guard was “not my personal security. I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. I did not. They did not come up to me.”