American singer Chappell Roan has apologised to Jorginho’s family after he criticised the behaviour of security guards towards his daughter.
Late last week, former Arsenal player Jorginho shared a story on his Instagram page revealing that his daughter had been left in tears after an interaction with a security guard supposedly protecting music artist Chappell Roan.
“I went through a very upsetting situation with my family earlier today,” Jorginho wrote.
“My wife 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, Chappell Roan.
“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.
“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.
“He 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.”
The artist has since responded to the claims, claiming the security guard was “not my personal security”, and adding: “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. No one came up to me. No one bothered me.
“I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. They weren’t doing anything.
“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.
“I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, [assuming] that you would do something. If you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
Jorginho’s wife has subsequently offered her own response to Chappell Roan’s message, admitting she doesn’t know the full story but insisting the security guard was definitely not employed by the hotel.
“I know that Chappell has responded saying that it wasn’t her security and that she didn’t do it,” Jorginho’s wife Catherine Harding said on Instagram.
“100%, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel, that’s what I can say. He looks after artists. I don’t know if it was her personal security guard, but he was with her. That is all I know.
“Did she send him to do it? Again, I don’t know. I would like to hope not.”
The truth of the matter may never be known at this stage, as all parties have given their version of events and there’s still little consensus over exactly what happened.
Former Gunner Jorginho having a dispute with popular American music artist Chappell Roan was probably not what many people had on their bingo card for 2026.