Brazilian soccer player Jorginho Frello is slamming Chappell Roan‘s team for their alleged mistreatment of his daughter at a São Paulo hotel.
Frello shared a lengthy post to his Instagram Stories on Saturday about the situation, where he said that he “went through a very upsetting situation with my family earlier.”
He wrote that his wife and 11-year-old daughter were attending Lollapalooza Brazil, and his child “made a sign because she was so happy to see an artist she really admires, or used to admire.” (The soccer star tagged Roan in the post, and also shared a photo of his daughter’s sign.)
“By coincidence, they’re staying at the same hotel as this artist. During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like any child, recognised [sic] her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure 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 confirm it was her, smiled, and went back to sit 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 large security guard came over to their table while they were still having breakfast and began speaking in an extremely aggressive manner to both my wife and daughter, saying that she shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to reps Roan for comment, but did not her back by the time of publication.
“Honestly, I don’t know at what point simply walking past a table and looking to see if someone is there can be considered harassment,” Frello continued. “He even said he would file a complaint against them with the hotel, while my 11-year-old daughter was sitting there in tears. My daughter was extremely shaken and cried a lot.”
Frello is a player for Brazil’s Flamengo, and has almost 5 million followers on Instagram, and detailed his experience living in the public eye in his post. “I’ve lived with football, public exposure, and well-known people for many years, and I understand very well what respect and boundaries are. What happened there was not that. It was just a child admiring someone,” he wrote.
Frello continued: “It’s sad to see this kind of treatment coming from those who should understand the importance of fans. At the end of the day, they are the ones who build all of this. I sincerely hope this serves as a moment of reflection. No one should have to go through this, especially not a child.”
He tagged Roan’s Instagram account again at the end of the post, concluding, “WITHOUT YOUR FANS, YOU WOULD BE NOTHING. AND TO THE FANS, SHE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR AFFECTION.”
The Grammy Award winner is known to speak 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 same year.
“For the past 10 years I’ve been going non-stop to build my project and it’s come to the point that I need to draw lines and set boundaries. I want to be an artist for a very very long time,” Roan wrote. “I’ve been in too many nonconsensual physical and social interactions and I just need to lay it out and remind you, women don’t owe you shit. I chose this career path because because I love music and art and honoring my inner child, I do not accept harassment of any kind because I chose this path, nor do I deserve it.”
A few weeks ago, a video of Roan confronting paparazzi in Paris went viral. As a pool of paps shot photos of her, the “Pink Pony Club” singer took out her phone and began filming them.
“I’m being disregarded as a human. This is what it’s like. I’m just trying to go to dinner and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me,” Roan said.
