Chappell Roan filmed herself confronting a group of paparazzi and fans who had allegedly been following her around in public.
The pop star was pictured in footage shared on social media surrounded by a horde of people in Paris while she was in the city attending Fashion Week, trying to get into a restaurant.
“I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me,” Roan, 28, says into her phone, before turning the camera on some of the people gathered around her.
“This person I’ve asked several times to go away, and they will not… They’re hiding their face, because they’re ashamed,” she said, filming one person who continued to ask for an autograph.
The musician born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz continued: “[I feel] disregarded as a human… These are all the people that are completely disregarding my boundaries.” Once again, she addressed the group and asked for space.
“All of you, I’m asking you kindly to please leave me alone and stop following me and harassing me. No, I’m not gonna sign,” she said, before talking to the camera and adding: “This is what it’s like, if you were wondering how it is.”
The “Pink Pony Club” artist has spoken previously about her desire to maintain boundaries when it comes to interactions with her fans.
In 2024, around a year after she was propelled to international fame with the success of her debut album – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess – she shared a lengthy statement stating that she would not accept “harassment of any kind” simply because she was in the spotlight.
“I chose this career path 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,” she said.
“When I’m on stage, when I’m performing, when I’m in drag, when I’m at a work event, when I’m doing press... I am at work. Any other circumstance, I am not in work mode. I am clocked out.”
Roan said she was specifically addressing “predatory” behaviour, which she said had become normalised as “superfan” culture “because of the way women who are well-known have been treated in the past”.
“Understand this: I embrace the success of the project, the love I feel, and the gratitude I have,” she said. “What I do not accept are creepy people, being touched, and being followed.”
Roan was praised for her statement and defended by fellow stars for speaking out, among them Miley Cyrus, Paramore’s Hayley Williams and actor Daniel Craig.
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