Security Guard Breaks Silence on Chappell Roan Incident Involving Jorginho's Daughter: 'I Take Full Responsibility'

• Security guard Pascal Duvier is speaking out on an incident involving Chappell Roan and Jorginho's daughter, Ada Law

• In a statement on Wednesday, March 25, Duvier said he takes "full responsibility for the interactions" and insisted he wasn't working on behalf of the singer

• Jorginho previously accused Roan of sending a security guard to accuse his 11-year-old daughter of harassment while they were dining at a São Paulo hotel

The security guard who was allegedly involved in the incident between Chappell Roan and 11-year-old Ada Law is speaking out.

Pascal Duvier issued a statement on Instagram on Wednesday, March 25, four days after soccer star Jorginho accused the musician of sending a security guard to accuse his daughter of disrespecting and harassing Roan while they were all dining at the same hotel in São Paulo.

Jorginho, 34, did not name the child, but he appeared to be referring to Ada, whom his wife, Catherine Harding (who also goes by Cat Cavelli), welcomed with her ex, Jude Law.

Duvier began his statement saying that he doesn't "normally address online rumors, but the accusations currently circulating are false and constitute defamation."

"I take full responsibility for the interactions on March 21st," he wrote.

He explained he was at the São Paulo hotel "on behalf of another individual," and was not a part of the musician's personal security team. "The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals," he wrote. "I made a judgment call based on information we obtained from the hotel, events I had witnessed in the days prior and the heightened overall security risk of our location."

"My sole interaction with the mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of the encounter is regretful," he concluded.

Pascal Duvier on September 28, 2017 in Paris, France
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Duvier's statement comes one day after a spokesperson for Roan, real name Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, told PEOPLE that the Grammy winner has "zero tolerance" for "aggressive behavior" toward fans.

"Chappell was not aware of any interaction between this mother/daughter and a third-party security office," the rep said in the statement. "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."

The spokesperson continued, "Chappell holds her own teams to the highest standards and has zero tolerance for any kind of aggressive behavior towards her or her fans."

Roan also issued a video on March 22 to address the incident, saying she had no affiliation with the security guard. "I 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," Roan said in her Instagram Stories, adding that she "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," the "Pink Pony Club" singer added. "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."

Chappell Roan on March 04, 2026 in Paris, France.
Credit: Pierre Suu/Getty

That same day, Ada's mother shared her side of the story in an Instagram video, saying she didn't realize the situation "would get this crazy." Harding said that she, her husband, and her daughter were all sitting down for breakfast when they saw a woman with long curly red hair walk past, and she asked Ada, "Do you think that's Chappell Roan?"

Ada then decided to walk to the nearby garden area to see if the woman was indeed Roan. "She didn't have her phone, she didn't try to take a picture, she didn't try to approach her," Harding said. "She literally didn't do anything." Once Ada returned to the table, the security guard then allegedly approached them to "berate and scold" them with a "very aggressive tone."

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"I know that Chappell has responded saying that it wasn't her security and she didn't do it," Harding, 34, said. "100 percent, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel ... I don't know if he was her personal security guard, but he was with her. That is all I know."

"For me, I feel like if she really didn't send him, [the security guard] overstepped a boundary because he is quite an intimidating [man]," she said, alleging that the security guard said he was going to file a complaint and that her daughter was "badly educated."

The recent incident follows Roan's previous pleas for boundaries between herself and fans, as well as paparazzi. Earlier this month, she made headlines for calling out a group of photographers and admirers who waited outside the restaurant where she was dining for "harassing" her.

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