The security guard at the centre of recent controversy surrounding Chappell Roan’s treatment of a young fan has broken his silence.
Pascal Duvier was alleged to have “aggressively confronted” 11-year-old Ada and her mother, Catherine Harding, at a hotel in Brazil shortly after the young fan passed by Roan’s table.
Now, Duvier has issued an apology for the incident, which was said to have left the child “in tears.”
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Taking to Instagram, Duvier took full responsibility for what happened, but revealed that he was not a member of the pop singer’s security team.
“I do not normally address online rumours, but the accusations currently circulating are false and constitute defamation,” he wrote.
“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.
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“The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals.”
“My sole interaction with the mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of the encounter is regretful,” he continued.
The incident made global headlines this week after Ada’s stepfather, Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello, posted an Instagram story blasting Roan.
It wasn’t known if Roan deliberately sent her security to scold his daughter, whose biological father is actor Jude Law, after she’d walked past the star’s table at the hotel.
“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.”
“Without your fans you would be nobody,” he also wrote, directly addressing Roan. “And to the fans, she does not deserve your affection.”
Roan later addressed the widespread online backlash surrounding the encounter, posting a video response to her Instagram Stories days later.
Roan, whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, also said that the bodyguard involved was not part of her personal security detail.
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She claimed she did not order the security guard to “go up and talk” to the girl, as had been claimed online.
“I did not, [and] they did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything,” she clarified.
“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.”
The Pink Pony Club singer added, “I do not hate children, like that is crazy.”
She concluded the video with an apology to the mother-daughter duo at the centre of the incident.
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