The security guard at the center of the controversy involving Chappell Roan and Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter Ada has spoken publicly for the first time, backing the singer’s account and taking full personal responsibility for the incident.
Pascal Duvier, identified by daily mail while the guard who confronted Ada and her mother Catherine Harding at a hotel in São Paulo, Brazil, on March 21, broke his silence on Instagram on Wednesday.
His statement was direct: he was not working for Roan and his actions were his own.
“I take full responsibility for the interactions on March 21. I was at the hotel on someone else’s behalf and was not part of Chappell Roan’s personal security team,” he wrote.
“The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, his personal security team, his management or any other individual.”
Duvier said he had made a decision based on information from the hotel, events he had witnessed in the previous days and what he described as an increased security risk at the location.
He described his approach to Harding as calm and well-intentioned, although he acknowledged that the result was regrettable.
“My only interaction with the mother was calm and well-intentioned, and the outcome of the encounter is regrettable,” he wrote.
He also rejected what he described as false and defamatory claims circulating online.
The incident came to public view over the weekend when Ada’s stepfather, Brazilian soccer player Jorginho Frello, posted a lengthy Instagram account accusing Roan’s security of aggressively confronting his wife and daughter after Ada simply walked past the singer’s breakfast table to check if it was her.
Ada had not spoken to Roan, nor had she taken a photo or asked for anything.
“My daughter was very scared and cried a lot,” Frello wrote. “Without your fans you would be nothing,” he added, addressing Roan directly.
Roan quickly responded with an Instagram video, insisting that the guard had no connection to his personal team and that he had not seen Ada or Harding during breakfast.
“I don’t hate kids, that’s crazy,” he said.
Harding later shared her own account, expressing doubt that the guard truly had no connection to Roan, noting that she knew he was not hotel security but someone who “takes care of the artists.”
He stopped short of directly blaming Roan, but suggested that celebrities take responsibility for those who act in their vicinity.
“I’d like to hope not,” he said of whether Roan had directed the guard, “but at the same time, I think when you’re a celebrity you have a responsibility to make sure that the people who work for you and act on your behalf do so on your behalf.”
Roan’s team redoubled its bet in a statement to Page six on Tuesday.
“Chappell was not aware of any interaction between this mother/daughter and an outside security officer,” a rep said, adding that the singer has “zero tolerance for aggressive behavior toward her or her fans.”
