Premier League footballer Jorginho criticise Chappell Roan after he said security spoke “in an extremely aggressive manner” to wife and daughter
Premier League footballer Jorginho has hit out at singer Chappell Roan after “aggressive” security made his daughter cry.
Chappell Roan has reacted to claims a security guard made a young girl cry at a hotel in Brazil. The scandal erupted after the youngster - daughter of Premier League footballer Jorginho - claimed she was upset after an interaction at the venue in Sao Paulo.
The footballer took to social media over the weekend to criticise Roan, saying her security team spoke “in an extremely aggressive manner” to his wife and daughter. The 34-year-old pro said his 11-year-old daughter was “extremely shaken and cried a lot” after the interaction and also hit out at the singer for not appreciating her supporters, adding: “Without your fans, you would be nothing.”
And his wife, Irish singer Catherine Harding, also detailed the interaction, and said: “She (the child) literally didn’t do anything; she just looked at her and smiled. She came back and she actually said to me, 'Mum, I don’t know if it’s her', because obviously she looked like, you know, with her costumes and everything, she looks a little bit different."
Harding said a security guard spoke in an “aggressive tone” and approached them to “berate and scold” while they were eating breakfast. “Even if she did send him or she didn’t send him, I don’t know, for me it felt like it really overstepped a boundary,” she added.
Now, Roan has responded, posting on social media how the situation left her feeling “really sad” and that the youngster “did not deserve that”. In a video to her millions of followers, she said: “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.
“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. 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.”
The 28-year-old singer added: “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.”
Following the post from the footballer, the chart-topping popstar received criticism online, including from the mayor of Rio De Janeiro, Eduardo Cavaliere. Cavaliere posted to X on Saturday and said that Roan is not welcome to perform at the city’s annual Todo Mundo No Rio music festival, adding that he doubts Colombian singer Shakira would treat her fans in the same way.
The Grammy-winning singer, whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, previously hit out at “entitled” fans for their “creepy” behaviour in a series of TikToks in 2024, where she emphasised the need for boundaries between celebrities and their fans.
Roan is known for tracks including Pink Pony Club, Good Luck, Babe!, Hot To Go! and Red Wine Supernova and has won multiple Brit Awards. She has had two UK number one singles and one chart-topping album, according to the Official Charts Company.