The security guard involved in the controversial incident with Chappell Roan and Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter, Ada, backed up the singer’s account that he’s not part of her personal security.
Pascal Duvier — whom the Daily Mail reported is the bodyguard that aggressively confronted Ada and her mother, Catherine Harding, at a hotel in São Paolo, Brazil, after Ada walked by Roan’s table — broke his silence on Instagram Wednesday.
Duvier took full responsibility for the incident with Ada and Harding, but said he was not part of Roan’s security team.
“I do not normally address online rumors, 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,” he continued. “The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals.”
Duvier said that he “made a judgment call” based on information obtained from the hotel, events he had witnessed in the days prior and the heightened security risk of the location.
“My sole interaction with the mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of the encounter is regretful,” he wrote.
The drama made headlines over the weekend, when Ada’s stepfather, Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello, blasted Roan on Instagram. Frello claimed Ada simply walked by Roan’s table at the hotel to confirm it was her as she was a fan, but did not approach her or take a picture, before she and her mom were berated by Roan’s “large” security guard.
“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 responded to the allegations with her own Instagram video and said the security guard was not with her personal security team, and that she was never approached by Ada and Harding. The “Pink Pony Club” singer insisted she did not instruct the security official to “go up and talk” to the two.
“I do not hate children, like, that is crazy,” she said.
Harding later shared her side of the story and casted doubt that the security guard was not part of Roan’s team, explaining that she knew he wasn’t part of hotel security, but rather someone who “looks after artists.”
“Did she send him to do it? Again, I don’t know,” she said. “Look, I would like to hope not, but at the same time, I think that you have a responsibility when you are a celebrity to make sure, I guess, that the people who work for you and act on your behalf are acting on your behalf.”
Roan, 28, doubled down on her innocence in a statement to Page Six Tuesday.
“Chappell holds her own teams to the highest standards,” a rep for the singer told us, adding that the Grammy winner has “zero tolerance for aggressive behavior toward her or her fans.”
“Chappell was not aware of any interaction between this mother/daughter and a third-party security officer,” the statement continued. “She did not see them at breakfast in her hotel, as she said in her video. She did not direct her personal security or anyone on her team to interact with them.”
