A soccer star accused a pop star of making a movie star's daughter cry.
Chappell Roan, who in recent years denounced the “creepy behavior” of fans and said she “put the brakes on” fame to protect her own privacy, was accused over the weekend by soccer star Jorginho of mistreating her family.
Roan (stop braking?) headlined Lollapalooza Brazil over the weekend, and Jorginho was in attendance along with his wife and son. While there, according to People, the soccer player said that the 11-year-old boy was delighted to see the singer while they had dinner at his hotel in São Paulo. The girl walked by the 28-year-old “Pink Pony Club” singer's table “to confirm it was her, smiled and sat back down with her mother. She didn't say anything, she didn't ask for anything,” she wrote.
Although he did not name the girl, his wife, Catherine Harding, shares an 11-year-old daughter with Jude Law. Harding, also known as Cat Cavelli, is a singer-songwriter originally from Ireland.
Jorginho of Flamengo of Brazil celebrates after scoring his team's second goal, from the penalty spot, during the second leg of the Recopa Sudamericana final against Lanús of Argentina in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, February 26, 2026.
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Jorginho alleged that after the girl sat down, a “large security guard” walked up and interrupted their breakfast to generally make their lives miserable. The guard allegedly told the girl's mother “you shouldn't allow [her] daughter to 'disrespect' or 'harass' other people.”
The girl was “extremely shaken and cried a lot,” said Jorginho, a player for the Brazilian club Flamengo whose legal name is Jorge Luiz Frello Filho.
Jorginho knows what it is to be famous and have fans. (Jude Law has a bit of experience in that department, too.)
Jorginho told his nearly 5 million Instagram followers that he knew what it was like when fans didn't respect boundaries and “[w]What happened was not that.”
On Sunday, Roan responded on Instagram. She said the guard was not her personal security and that no one, including a starry-eyed 11-year-old girl, had bothered her.
“I didn't ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and her son… They didn't approach me. They weren't doing anything.”
“I don't hate people who are fans of my music. I don't hate children.”
He expressed his regret to the girl and her mother. A representative for the artist did not immediately respond to The Times' request for further comment.
Roan has shown that he is not afraid to speak up when he feels that a fan has gone too far. This incident comes after an episode this month in Paris when the singer filmed herself in selfie mode while a swarm of people shouted behind her.
“I'm just trying to go to dinner,” he tells the camera in video captured by a bystander, “and I've asked these people several times to get away from me.”
Even as she calmly reprimands them, a man continues to ask her for an autograph.
