Catherine Harding, the mother of Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter, Ada — who was allegedly left in tears after a nasty encounter with Chappell Roan’s security — has spoken out to give her side of the story.
Harding’s husband, Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello, blasted Roan on Saturday after he claimed the singer’s security guard confronted his stepdaughter and wife aggressively at a hotel in São Paulo, Brazil. Frello claimed Ada did not approach or ask Roan for anything before the encounter, but simply walked past her table to confirm it was the singer, since she was a fan.
After getting heat, Roan said in an Instagram video that the security guard was not part of her personal security and that she was never approached by Ada and Harding.
Harding took to Instagram Sunday to share her side of the story after she said she received a lot of messages asking if Frello’s story was true. Harding cast doubt on Roan’s claims, saying that she knew the security guard was not part of hotel security, but rather, was someone who “looks after artists.”
“Did she send him to do it? Again, I don’t know,” she said. “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 who work for you and act on your behalf are acting on your behalf.”
“So would he do that if he didn’t have that 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 she doesn’t want to be represented.”
Harding said Ada didn’t have a phone with her, didn’t take a picture and didn’t approach Roan during the encounter.
“She literally did not do anything, she just looked at her…she came back and said ‘Mum I don’t know if it’s her.’ Because obviously she looked like…her costumes and everything…she looks a little bit different,” she recalled.
Harding said they continued to eat breakfast, but then a security guard with a “very aggressive tone” confronted them.
“Even if [Roan] did send him or she didn’t send him, I don’t know, for me it felt like it really overstepped a boundary,” she said.
According to Harding, the security guard berated them and told her that she should teach her daughter to be better and to respect people’s privacy. Harding said she tried to explain that Ada was a child and was just excited to see a a singer she admired.
At this point, Harding said she explained that if Roan didn’t want people to even look at her, she should eat breakfast in her room, given that the hotel was a public area and as a paying guest, she had a right to look at her.
Harding said that in the end, Ada opted to skip Roan’s show — even though tickets to the performance that evening were her birthday present.
“I think she’s a very talented artist. I like her a lot,” Harding said. “We came all the way to São Paulo to watch the show. It was my daughter’s birthday present…a little bit ruined because we didn’t go to the show last night.”
The “Pink Pony Club” singer, 28, had had a complicated relationship with fame and wanting to set boundaries with fans since the start of her career. Earlier this month, she snapped at paparazzi taking photos of her in Paris, during Paris Fashion Week.
