Brazilian soccer player Jorginho Frello is slamming Chappell Roan and her team for the pop star’s alleged mistreatment of his daughter at a São Paulo hotel on Saturday.
Frello shared a lengthy post to his Instagram Stories on Saturday in regards to the situation, where he said that he “went through a really upsetting situation with my family earlier.”
He wrote that his wife and 11-year-old daughter were attending Lollapalooza Brazil, which Roan is headlining this weekend, and his child “made an indication because she was so pleased to see an artist she really admires, or used to admire.” (The soccer star tagged Roan within the post, and in addition shared a photograph of his daughter’s sign, which reads, “H-O-T-T-O-G-O I’m watching Chappell Roan” in blue, pink and purple writing.)
Frello didn’t detail the name of the kid, though his wife, Catherine Harding, shares an 11-year-old daughter with Jude Law. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Law’s reps for comment.
“By coincidence, they’re staying at the identical hotel as this artist. During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like all child, recognised [sic] her, got excited, and just desired to be certain that it really was her,” he wrote. “And the worst part is she didn’t even approach her. She simply walked past the singer’s table, looked to verify it was her, smiled, and went back to sit down together with her mum. She didn’t say anything, didn’t ask for anything.”
The soccer star wrote that “what happened next was completely disproportionate,” explaining that “a big security guard got here over to their table while they were still having breakfast and commenced speaking in a particularly aggressive manner to each my wife and daughter, saying that she shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people.”
THR reached out to Roan’s reps for comment, but received no reply by the point of publication.
“Truthfully, I don’t know at what point simply walking past a table and searching to see if someone is there will be considered harassment,” Frello continued. “He even said he would file a grievance against them with the hotel, while my 11-year-old daughter was sitting there in tears. My daughter was extremely shaken and cried loads.”
Frello, a celebrated player for Brazil’s Flamengo, has almost 5 million followers on Instagram, and he detailed his experience living in the general public eye in his post. “I’ve lived with football, public exposure, and well-known people for a few years, and I understand thoroughly what respect and limits are. What happened there was not that. It was just a toddler admiring someone,” he wrote.
Frello continued: “It’s sad to see this sort of treatment coming from those that should understand the importance of fans. At the top of the day, they’re those who construct all of this. I sincerely hope this serves as a moment of reflection. Nobody should need to undergo this, especially not a toddler.”
He tagged Roan’s Instagram account again at the top of his post, concluding, “WITHOUT YOUR FANS, YOU WOULD BE NOTHING. AND TO THE FANS, SHE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR AFFECTION.”
The Grammy Award winner is understood to talk her mind, specifically about fan behavior. After launching to fame swiftly in 2024, she asked people to “stop touching me,” “stop being weird to my family and friends” and “stop assuming things about me” in an August Instagram post of the identical yr.
“For the past 10 years I’ve been going non-stop to construct my project and it’s come to the purpose that I want to attract lines and set boundaries. I need to be an artist for a really very very long time,” Roan wrote. “I’ve been in too many nonconsensual physical and social interactions and I just have to lay it out and remind you, women don’t owe you shit. I selected this profession path because because I really like music and art and honoring my inner child, I don’t accept harassment of any kind because I selected this path, nor do I deserve it.”
A couple of weeks ago, a video of Roan confronting paparazzi in Paris quickly went viral. As a pool of paparazzi and autograph seekers began taking photos of her, the enraged”Pink Pony Club” singer took out her phone and commenced filming them while yelling at them to face back.
“I’m being disregarded as a human. That is what it’s like. I’m just attempting to go to dinner and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me!” Roan said.
March 21, 8:50 p.m. Updated to reflect that the 11-year-old is Jude Law’s biological daughter.