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Mary Varvaris

Chappell Roan issued a statement after soccer player Jorginho Frello alleged that the singer’s security was aggressive to his wife and stepdaughter.

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Chappell Roan has made a statement on social media following backlash from soccer player Jorginho Frello, who alleged that the singer’s security was aggressive to his wife and stepdaughter.

Over the weekend, Frello – who plays for Chelsea – called out the singer on his Instagram Stories.

There, he wrote that his 11-year-old stepdaughter, whose parents are Irish singer Catherine Harding and actor Jude Law, was “extremely shaken and cried a lot” after Roan’s security allegedly spoke to his family “in an extremely aggressive manner” upon spotting her at their hotel in São Paulo.

The Guardian reports that Frello wrote in his since-deleted Instagram Story that Roan didn’t appreciate her fans. He added that Harding and his stepdaughter were staying at the same hotel as the singer and saw her at breakfast.

Frello claimed that his stepdaughter did not approach Roan but instead walked past her table, smiled, and then sat back with her mother, at which point security guards approached them.

“Without your fans, you would be nothing,” Frello wrote. He shared that as a footballer with a public-facing career, he understood the singer’s position on respecting boundaries but asserted that “what happened was not that”.

Frello’s statement went viral on social media platforms, including X and Reddit, where music lovers and soccer fans alike have debated the alleged incident.

Roan shared a response on her Instagram Stories, saying the alleged security guard was “not my personal security” and that she didn’t see Frello’s family approach her.

She also stated that she does “not hate children” and apologised to the mother and daughter, saying they “did not deserve” the kind of alleged treatment in Frello’s account of the incident.

“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,” she began.

“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, like I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel.”

She continued, “I think these people were staying at the hotel as well. So, the fact that, like a security guard, who was – 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. 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 – 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.”

Roan has made headlines not only for her takeover of the singles charts but also for her reactions to paparazzi and fame. In 2024, the singer cancelled a festival appearance to prioritise her health, revealed that she had been diagnosed with severe depression, set boundaries for herself and fans, and called out fan abuse, entitlement, harassment, and stalking.

In a 2025 interview with BBC Radio 1, the American singer reflected on another incident that made waves: when she criticised a photographer shouting at celebrities on the red carpet during last year’s MTV Video Music Awards. To her, that behaviour was “not normal.”

Earlier this year, she made waves once more when she turned the cameras back on paparazzi, filming them with her phone.