A security guard has claimed responsibility for the controversial incident in a Brazilian hotel involvingJude Law's daughter andChappell Roan.
Pascal Duvier, a "protection specialist" and martial artist, said that he was the person who reprimanded Law's ex, Catherine Harding, over the behavior of the ex-couple's 11-year daughter Ava Law in a Brazilian hotel on Sunday. Harding's husband, soccer player Jorginho, had previously accused fellow hotel patron Roan of employing the security guard, but Duvier said he had no connection to the "Pink Pony Club" singer.
"I do not normally address online rumors, but the accusations currently circulating are false and constitute defamation," Duvier said in astatement on Instagramon Wednesday. "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. The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals."
Duvier went on to explain that he "made a judgment call" influenced by "information we obtained from the hotel, events I had witnessed in the days prior and the heightened overall security risk of our location."
He concluded, "My sole interaction with the mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of the encounter is regretful."
EW has reached out to representatives for Roan, Jorginho, and Jude Law for comment.
A spokesperson for Roan previously identified Duvier as the individual who approached Harding in the hotel. "Contrary to published reports, Pascal Duvier was not Chappell Roan's personal security in South America," the representative told EW in a statement on Wednesday morning. "Chappell Roan has used the same personal security guard this year in Australia, France and South America."
Harding and Ada Law were in São Paulo to see Roan perform at Lollapalooza. Jorginho claimed that his stepdaughter was "excited" when she thought she recognized Roan while eating breakfast in the hotel, and that she walked toward the musician's table to confirm her identity. "She didn't say anything, didn't ask for anything," the soccer player claimed.
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He then claimed that "a large security guard" berated Harding, "saying she shouldn't allow my daughter to 'disrespect' or 'harass' other people. He said that Ada was "extremely shaken and cried a lot," and lashed out at Roan and her fans at the end of his statement: "WITHOUT YOUR FANS, YOU WOULD BE NOTHING. AND TO THE FANS, SHE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR AFFECTION."
Roanresponded to Jorginho's claimson Instagram shortly thereafter, claiming that she "didn't even see a woman and a child" in the hotel. "No one came up to me. No one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel," she said. "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!"
Roan continued, "I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children — that is crazy. I'm sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming that you would do something, and if you felt uncomfortable that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that."
Harding thenshared her own perspective on the incidentin her own video on Sunday. "I know that Chappell has responded saying that it wasn't her security and she didn't do it," she said. "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."
Harding continued, "Did she send him to do it? Again, I don't know. 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 that the people who work for you and act on your behalf are acting on your behalf. So would he do that if he didn't have her authority to do so? I don't know."
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A spokesperson for Roanreiterated that the singer was not involved in the situationin a statement to EW on Tuesday. "Chappell was not aware of any interaction between this mother / daughter and a third party security officer," the spokesperson said. "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. Chappell holds her own teams to the highest standards and has zero tolerance for any kind of aggressive behavior towards her or her fans."
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