KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chappell Roan and her terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week continues in the aftermath of an incident last week in Brazil that left an 11-year-old fan in tears.

A security guard allegedly spoke aggressively to young Ada Law after she walked past Roan’s table during breakfast in a Sao Paulo hotel to look at the “Pink Pony Club” singer. Roan was in town for Lollapalooza Brasil.

Ada isn’t just any fan. She is the daughter of British actor Jude Law and stepdaughter of Brazilian soccer player Jorginho.

Ada’s mother and stepfather both went on social media to criticize Roan and hold her responsible for the security guard’s behavior.

On Instagram stories, Roan said Sunday she didn’t know anything about the incident when it happened and that she did not tell security to confront anyone. She also said the guard involved was not part of her security team.

In a statement to The Daily Mail on Monday, a Roan spokesperson said the singer has “zero tolerance” for aggressive behavior toward fans.

But it didn’t stop a firestorm of criticism on social media. People created memes and videos mocking Roan for mistreating children. Some resurrected information about her upbringing to cast her as a “rich girl” from a Missouri MAGA family.

Roan, born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, grew up in a conservative Christian home in Willard, a town of about 6,300 northwest of Springfield in Greene County. She left Willard behind for Los Angeles after Atlantic Records found her on YouTube and signed her while she was in high school.

The Brazil drama has followed Roan, who makes a surprise appearance in the new “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special” with Miley Cyrus.

In a pretaped segment in the special, which debuted Tuesday on Disney+, Roan praises Cyrus for paving the way for young artists, “what I do on stage, where I can go on a red carpet and just be.”

“You took a lot of the heat for that in 2012, 2013,” Roan tells Cyrus. “I don’t have to deal with that as much because you really — the world took it out on you. To see you be the artist you are, to be able to do this just shows your heart and your appreciation for your younger self and what got you here.”

According to People, when that scene played during the show’s premiere in L.A. on Monday — just a few days after the incident in Brazil — awkward laughs and “ughs” were heard in the audience.

Roan is known for vocally drawing boundaries between herself and the paparazzi and fans who get too aggressive and close for her comfort, an issue she has addressed in interviews and TikTok rants. Two years ago she suggested that that kind of behavior was a byproduct of fame that could make her quit her career.

“I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever, is a normal thing to do to people who are, um, famous or a little famous, whatever,” she told podcaster Drew Afualo in 2024.

“I don’t care that it’s normal. I don’t care that this crazy type of behavior comes along with the job, the career field I’ve chosen. That does not make it OK. That does not make it normal. It doesn’t mean I want it. It doesn’t mean that I like it.

“It’s weird how people think that you know a person just cause you see them online and you listen to the art they make. That’s (bleeping) weird. I’m allowed to say no to creepy behavior, OK?”

In a May 2025 interview on the podcast, “Outlaws with TS Madison,” Roan talked about being cast as a villain for talking about how celebrities are treated in public.

“I’ve been treated better at my donut shop job than I have on a (bleeping) carpet,” she said. “People on the news treat me worse than how customers did.

“Do you want me to just get to the point where I become agoraphobic? Or so stressed out or so anxious to perform? Because if I don’t say anything, I will. If I do not stand up for myself, I will quit because I cannot bear this.”

What happened in Brazil?

On Saturday, Jorginho posted an Instagram story, in Portuguese and English, alleging that Roan sent a security guard to accuse his stepdaughter of disrespecting Roan as they all had breakfast in the same hotel.

“I went through a very upsetting situation with my family earlier today. My wife (Catherine Harding, who also goes by Cat Cavelli) is in São Paulo for Lollapalooza Brasil. This morning, my daughter woke up incredibly excited. She even made a sign because she was so happy to see an artist she really admires, or used to admire,” Jorginho wrote.

“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, recognized her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her.

“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.”

He went on to allege that after his daughter walked past the table, “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 my daughter, saying that she shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people.”

“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.”

He alleged that the security guard “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.”

In a separate video on Instagram, Harding said she knew that “Chappell has responded saying it wasn’t her security and that she didn’t do it. So, 100% this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel — that’s what I can say. He looks after artists. So, I don’t know if it was her personal security guard, but he was with her. That is all I know.”

She said she hoped that Roan hadn’t sent the guard to their table, but “I think that you have a responsibility, when you are a celebrity, to make sure that the people that work for you are acting on your behalf. So, would he do that if he didn’t have her authority to do so? I don’t know.”

The family reportedly didn’t attend Roan’s concert that night, which reportedly had been Ada’s birthday gift.

In her Instagram story, Roan said she “didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. No one came up to me, no one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel, (and) I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.

“I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything.”

She criticized the security guard.

“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,” she said. “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. Like, that is crazy.

“I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something, and if you felt uncomfortable. That makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”

After Jorginho went public about the incident, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro responded by saying Roan will never perform at the city’s Todo Mundo no Rio mega music festival as long as he’s mayor, and invited Ada to this year’s event.

“I doubt that Shakira would do that!” Eduardo Cavaliere wrote on social media, referencing the headliner for the May 2 event. Madonna and Lady Gaga have both headlined the new event.

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