Photo Credit: Chappell Roan (Instagram)
Chappell Roan is banned from Rio de Janeiro by the city’s mayor after an incident that made a Brazilian soccer star’s 11-year-old stepdaughter cry.
Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello put Chappell Roan on blast after a member of the singer’s security allegedly caused his 11-year-old stepdaughter to cry. Now, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere says Roan will never perform at Todo Mundo no Rio while he’s still in office.
“As long as I’m in charge of our city—this young lady Chappell Roan will never perform at Todo Mundo no Rio!” Cavaliere wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. “I doubt that Shakira would do that!”
Todo Mundo no Rio, a series of free international music events held on Copacabana Beach, has been headlined by major stars like Lady Gaga and Madonna. Shakira is due to headline in May.
On Saturday, Frello posted that a member of Roan’s security mistreated his 11-year-old stepdaughter Ada—whose father is actor Jude Law—and her mother (Frello’s wife) Catherine Harding, at a São Paulo hotel. Roan is currently in the country as a headliner set to perform at Lollapalooza Brazil, alongside Sabrina Carpenter and Tyler, The Creator.
According to Frello, Ada saw Roan at breakfast but did not approach her or ask for anything. Frello claimed that the Pink Pony Club singer’s security guard confronted Ada and her mother about “harassment” and spoke “in an extremely aggressive manner.”
“My daughter got super scared and cried a lot,” wrote Frello. “Honestly, I don’t know what in what world just passing by a table and looking […] can be considered harassment.”
Frello added in a statement addressing Roan directly: “Without your fans, you would be nobody. And to the fans, she does not deserve your attention.”
Chappell Roan later responded on social media with her version of events and noted that the security guard in question was not part of her personal team.
“I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, no one came up to me. No one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel and I think these people were staying at the hotel,” Roan said. “I did not [instruct security to talk to them]. 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. Like, that’s so not what I stand behind,” she added. “I do not hate children. Like, that is crazy.”
“I’m sorry to that mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something, and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really said,” Roan continued. “You did not deserve that.”
Jude Law and Catherine Harding announced Ada’s birth in March 2015 after the couple had already split. Last July, Harding and Frello got married in Italy. Their son, Jax, was born in 2020.
