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The singer Chappell Roan has responded after the former Chelsea footballer Jorginho posted on social media claiming her security guard made his stepdaughter cry when she encountered the singer at a hotel in Brazil.
The American musician said Jorginho’s stepdaughter “did not deserve that”, and the situation had “made her really sad”, adding that the man involved in the incident was not her personal security.
The Flamengo footballer, 34, had posted on Instagram saying his 11-year-old stepdaughter was “extremely shaken and cried a lot” after her security spoke “in an extremely aggressive manner” to her and his wife when they saw Roan at a hotel in São Paulo, Brazil.
He accused the singer of not appreciating her fans, saying that they had been staying in the same hotel, and his stepdaughter had spotted Roan walking past their table at breakfast.
He said his stepdaughter had not approached the singer, but had walked past Roan’s table, and smiled, before walking back to sit with her mother.
“Without your fans, you would be nothing,” he wrote, adding that as a footballer in the public eye he understood respect and boundaries, but said “what happened was not that”.
In response, Roan posted a video to Instagram, where she has almost 8 million followers.
“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 said.
“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 artist, 28, who was lying down in bed as she recorded the video, continued: “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.”
Jorginho, who played in the Premier League for Chelsea and Arsenal between 2018 and 2025, before moving to play for Brazil Série A club Flamengo, married the Irish singer Catherine Harding last year.
The couple have one child together, while Harding has a daughter from a previous relationship with the actor Jude Law, and Jorginho has two children from a prior marriage to Natalia Leteri.
Following Jorginho’s Instagram post, Roan received criticism online, including from the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Cavaliere, who posted on X to say that Roan was not welcome to perform at the city’s annual Todo Mundo no Rio music festival.
Cavaliere added that he doubted Colombian singer Shakira would treat her fans in the same way.
The Grammy-winning singer 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.
