The security guard who appears to be at the center of a debacle involving pop star Chappell Roan and soccer player Jorginho’s stepdaughter took to social media to clarify that he was not part of Roan’s team and was acting independently.
“I do not normally address online rumors, but the accusations currently circulating are false and constitute defamation,” Pascal Duvier began in his statement. “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.”
Last Saturday, Jorginho posted a story on Instagram that alleged Roan sent her security guard to scold his wife and young daughter after the latter approached Roan briefly during breakfast in their shared São Paulo hotel. While Jorginho didn’t name his child, People reported that it was his stepdaughter Ada Law, the daughter of actor Jude Law and Catherine Harding, Jude’s ex and Jorginho’s current wife.
The following morning, Roan said that the security guard wasn’t a member of her personal team. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child, like no one came up to me, no one bothered me,” said Roan in a social media post. “I think these people were staying at the hotel as well. I did not ask this security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child, they did not come up to me, they weren’t doing anything.” Roan added, “I am sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something, and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
Later that day, Harding posted a lengthy Instagram video in response and said she didn’t realize the situation “would get this crazy.” She continued, “100 percent, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel … I don’t know if he was [Roan’s] personal security guard, but he was with her. That is all I know.”
“I feel like if she really didn’t send him, [the security guard] overstepped a boundary because he is quite an intimidating [man],” Harding said, alleging that the security guard said her daughter was “badly educated.”
In his post shared on Wednesday, Duvier said, “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.”
In 2018, Duvier and his security and protection company Protect Security were named in a $6.1 million lawsuit by Kim Kardashian’s insurance company two years after Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at the No Address Hotel during Paris Fashion Week. American International Group claimed Duvier and Protect Security “negligently, carelessly, and/or recklessly performed their protection, security, monitoring, inspection, and/or surveying of” the reality TV star. All parties settled the suit in 2020.
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