Rio de Janeiro’s mayor is reacting to claims from Brazilian soccer star Jorginho that Chappell Roan’s safety upset the athlete’s younger daughter.
In a submit on X on Saturday (March 21), Rio Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere wrote that the 28-year-old pop star won’t ever carry out at Todo Mundo no Rio whereas he stays in workplace and prolonged an invite for the athlete’s 11-year-old daughter to attend the upcoming occasion as an honored visitor.
“I imply that so long as I’m accountable for our metropolis, this younger woman @ChappellRoan won’t ever carry out at Todo Mundo no Rio!” Cavaliere wrote in Spanish. “I doubt that Shakira would try this! By the way in which, @FrelloJorginho your baby is already the visitor of honor of the group in Might!”
Todo Mundo no Rio is a collection of free worldwide music occasions held on Copacabana Seashore in Rio de Janeiro every Might. The inaugural version was headlined by Madonna in 2024, adopted by Woman Gaga in 2025. Shakira is about to headline this 12 months’s occasion on Might 2.
Jorginho reacted to the mayor’s submit with a pair of pink coronary heart emojis.
The mayor’s submit follows a prolonged Instagram Story from the soccer star on Saturday, by which he stated Roan’s safety left his daughter in tears after an incident that morning at a São Paulo lodge.
In his submit, Jorginho stated his spouse, Catherine Harding, and 11-year-old daughter had been staying at a São Paulo lodge forward of Roan’s headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil after they noticed the singer on the lodge restaurant throughout breakfast.
“My daughter, like several youngster, recognised her, acquired excited, and simply wished to ensure it was actually her,” the midfielder shared, noting she didn’t method Roan or ask for something.
He claimed the encounter rapidly escalated when a safety guard allegedly confronted his household, talking “in an especially aggressive method” and accusing his daughter of “disrespect” and harassment, even threatening to file a criticism with the lodge, leaving his daughter “extraordinarily shaken” and in tears.
On Sunday morning (March 22), Roan shared her aspect of the story on social media.
“I’m simply going to inform my half of the story of what occurred at present with a mom and youngster who had been concerned with a safety guard — who isn’t my private safety,” Roan stated on her Instagram Story, mendacity in mattress at first of her video.
“I didn’t even see,” the singer continued. “I didn’t even see a lady and a toddler. Like, I didn’t. Nobody got here as much as me. Nobody bothered me. Like, I used to be simply sitting at breakfast in my lodge. I believe these individuals had been staying on the lodge as properly.”
Roan added, “I didn’t ask the safety guard to go as much as discuss to this mom and youngster. They didn’t come as much as me. They weren’t doing something. It’s unfair for safety to only assume somebody doesn’t have good intentions. Once they don’t have any cause to consider, as a result of there’s no motion even taken.”
The pop star concluded her message, assuring viewers, “I don’t hate people who find themselves followers of my music. I don’t hate youngsters. That’s loopy. I’m sorry to the mom and youngster that somebody was assuming one thing, that you’d do one thing and that should you felt uncomfortable, that makes me actually unhappy. You didn’t deserve that.”
