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Chappell Roan has spoken out after an incident involving hotel security reportedly left Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter in tears.
The pop star, 28, said that it was not her personal security guard who confronted Jude Law and Catherine Harding’s daughter at a hotel in São Paulo, Brazil, despite claims made by the girl’s stepdad and Brazilian soccer player Jorginho Frello.
“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 was not my personal security,” Roan said in a video Sunday morning on her Instagram Story, adding that she “didn’t even see” Harding and her daughter.
“No one came up to me. No one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel,” she said, insisting that she did not ask a security guard to talk to the 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.”
She continued: “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. Like, that is crazy. I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something that you would do something, and that if he felt uncomfortable, it makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
Chappell Roan has addressed claims that her security guard made Jude Law’s daughter cry (Instagram)
The Grammy-winning singer is currently in São Paulo for Lollapalooza Brazil. Her representatives did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
Frello, 34, alleged in a lengthy Instagram Stories post shared Saturday in both Portuguese and English that Roan sent a security guard to accuse his daughter of disrespecting and harassing Roan after she had reportedly smiled at the singer while passing her table at the hotel restaurant.
The athlete said a member of Roan’s security team approached the pair and spoke “extremely aggressively’ to his stepdaughter.
“My daughter got super scared and cried a lot,” Frello wrote. “Honestly, I don’t know in what world just passing by a table and looking… can be considered harassment.”
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