The bodyguard who allegedly confronted soccer star Jorginho’s stepdaughter during an encounter with Chappell Roan in São Paulo, Brazil over the weekend has issued a mea culpa for the incident and taken full blame. In a statement posted on Instagram, Pascal Duvier wrote, “I do not normally address online rumors, but the accusations currently circulating are false and constitute defamation.”
He added, “I take full responsibility for the interactions on March 21st. I was at the hotel on behalf of another individual, and I was not part of the personal security team of Chappell Roan. The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals.”
Duvier described making a “judgment call” based on information from the hotel, “events I had witnessed in the days prior and the heightened overall security risk of our location. My sole interaction with the mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of the encounter is regretful.”
According to reports, soccer star Jorginho’s 11-year-old stepdaughter — a Roan fan who was planning to see the singer perform at last Saturday’s Lollapalooza in São Paulo — was left in tears and “extremely shaken” after the run-in. The Flamengo defensive midfielder wrote in an Instagram Story after the encounter that his wife, Catherine Harding, and stepdaughter were staying at a São Paulo hotel ahead of Roan’s headlining set on Saturday and happened to spot the singer at a hotel restaurant where they were having breakfast.
“During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” he wrote. “And 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.” He then described a “large security guard” coming over to their table and speaking in an “extremely aggressive manner” to the Harding and her daughter, “saying that she shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people,” adding that he planned to file a complaint against them with the hotel.”
Jorginho said the encounter left his daughter “extremely shaken” and tearful.
Roan responded to the claims the next morning, writing on her Story on Sunday that the guard in question was not part of her personal security and that she “didn’t even see” the encounter. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. 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,” she said in the video filmed lying in bed.
“I did not ask the security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child,” Roan continued. “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.”
Before Roan’s comment, Rio’s mayor, Eduardo Cavaliere, wrote that Roan will never be invited to perform at the free international music series Todo Mundo no Rio on Copacabana Beach as long as he’s in office, and then invited Jorginho’s daughter to attend the upcoming May event as an honored guest; previous performers have included Madonna and Lady Gaga, with Shakira slated to perform at this year’s show.
Roan has frequently clashed with photographers on the red carpet over the past few years over what she has deemed their overly aggressive manner, and the Grammy winner addressed what she said was overly familiar, “weird” fan culture in an TikTok video in 2024. “I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever, is a normal thing to do to people who are famous or a little famous,” she said in the clip as he voice broke. “I don’t give a f–k if you think it’s selfish of me to say no for a photo, or for your time, or for a hug. That’s not normal, that’s weird. It’s weird how people think that you know a person just because you see them online.”
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