Catherine Harding Speaks Out In New Video, Shares Her Side of What Happened With Chappell Roan's Security

Catherine Harding is directly sharing her side of the story in the Chappell Roan security situation.

The English singer is married to Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello and was in Sao Paulo this weekend for Lollapalooza Brazil with her daughter.

However, things took a sour turn when they were at breakfast at their hotel when her daughter thought she saw Chappell and walked by the singer’s table to confirm if it was her. But, a security guard then came over and was very rude towards her after, as previously told by Jorginho, which has gone super viral.

Chappell shared her side of the story on Sunday (March 22), the day after her performance, and Catherine is now speaking out with her side in a new video message.

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“I wanted to say something because I’m getting so many messages about this now and honestly, I didn’t realize it would get this crazy,” Catherine started out in an Instagram video. “A lot of people ask me like what actually happened and everything else, and I know that Chappell has responded saying that it wasn’t, that 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. So, that is all I know. Did she send him to do it? Again, I don’t know.”

“Look, 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, I guess, that the people that work for you and that 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,” she continued. “If he does, then obviously that’s a big problem because then he’s representing her in a way that she doesn’t want to be represented. I think that’s really important for her to notice and realize that’s not correct.”

Catherine then went on to explain what happened to lead to all of this.

“Literally, we were staying in the same hotel, we were at breakfast and we noticed a girl passed with long red hair, very curly, and I said to my daughter, ‘Oh, do you think that’s Chappell Roan?’ And she looked and she said, ‘Oh my god, mum, do you think it’s her?’ And so she said, ‘I’m gonna go have a look outside,’ and she was sat just outside in the garden area, which we were also free to go into. The door was open, and so I went back to the table to see me and my daughter walked through the door.”

“She didn’t have her phone, she didn’t try to take a picture, she didn’t approach her. She literally didn’t do anything. She just looked at her and smiled and she came back and she actually said to me, ‘Mum, I don’t know if it’s her because obviously she looks like, you know, with her costumes and everything, she looks a little bit different. So, my daughter said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not sure if it was her. I think it was her mum. It really, really looks like her, but I don’t know. Maybe it’s her sister,’ she said, ‘Maybe it’s her sister.’”

“And I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, darling.’ And that was it. We continued our breakfast.
And from that, then came the security guard, who as I said, as my husband said, had a very aggressive tone and I feel like was if she did not send [him], I mean even if she did send him or she didn’t send him, I don’t know. For me, I feel like it really overstepped a boundary because he is quite intimidating, he is very large. So, for him to come over to a table with just a woman and her daughter eating breakfast, to kind of like berate and scold us and say that he was going to complain and tell me that I should be teaching my daughter to be better and that she’s badly educated and we should respect people’s privacy and we should not harass people and all of these other things.”

“I did try and explain to him the situation, that she’s a child and she was just very excited to see an artist and singer that she admires and can he not understand that’s all she was doing, and I explained to him also that my husband is also very well known and that we’re very used to being around people that are well known, and she would never cross someone’s boundaries or overstep a mark,” Catherine continued. “She very much knows the limits not to ever, you know, yeah be rude or make anyone feel… She understands very well, and I tried to explain this to him and he just kept saying, ‘Well, if that’s the case then you should know better, you should know how it is, you should know how it is, so you should teach her to be better, you shouldn’t allow her to be like this.’”

“And I was shocked, and I did actually say to him at the time, I said, ‘Well, if this is the case that she doesn’t even want people to look at her, she is very welcome to eat breakfast in her room, because this here is a public area and I am a paying guest as well as her.’ So if I want to walk past someone’s table and look at them, I have every right to do so. I am not approaching her. I’m not doing anything to make her feel intimidated or nothing like this is an 11 year old child.”

“This is the last thing I’m gonna say about this now, because it’s getting a bit crazy,
but lots of people were sending me messages like is this true is this true is this true and then lots of messages now about obviously um Chappell‘s message that she’s put out. So, I hope that she did not know and I hope that she did not send her security over to do this. I really think that she’s a very, very, very talented artist. We liked her a lot.”

Catherine explained that they flew all the way to Sao Paulo to see Chappell as a birthday present for her daughter, and they didn’t even go to the performance after what happened.

“It’s how it is. We’ll say no more on it. That’s it. I hope that maybe if it wasn’t her, that she learns to not allow the people that work for her to treat people like this,” Catherine concluded.

If you missed it, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro reacted to the situation and said Chappell will not be welcomed to perform at Todo Mundo no Rio for as long as he’s in office.