What happened between Jude Law's daughter and singer Chappell Roan?

BarcelonaChappell Roan She's one of the biggest pop stars of the moment, but she's explained on more than one occasion that she doesn't particularly like fans and photographers approaching her in public when she's not working. This weekend, the Missouri-born singer was accused of being especially aggressive with a young fan, an 11-year-old girl who turned out to be Jude Law's daughter and, at the same time, the stepdaughter of soccer player Jorginho. The controversy began when the Flamengo midfielder posted a series of Instagram stories claiming that the pop star's security detail had been particularly rude to Ada Law, whom he calls his "daughter" but who is actually the daughter of Jude Law and Catherine Harding, Jorginho's current wife.

Harding and the 11-year-old girl were at a hotel in São Paulo to attend Lollapalooza Brazil, where Roan was performing. The family and the singer of The subway They were staying at the same hotel. According to Jorginho, when his daughter saw her idol at the hotel restaurant during breakfast, she walked past the singer's table to confirm it was her. The player maintains that the girl never interacted with the singer, but that a security guard approached her and her mother. "A fat security guard came to their table while they were still having breakfast and started speaking extremely aggressively to my wife and daughter, telling her that she shouldn't allow my daughter to disrespect or harass other people," the footballer said in one of his Instagram posts. He also emphasized that the security guard said he would file a complaint against the family at the hotel, a threat that made the girl start crying.

Following the controversy on social media, Chappell Roan defended herself with a video posted on Instagram. Among other things, she stated that no one approached her and that she never felt harassed by anyone. She also added that the security guard who spoke to the family is not part of her security team. "They didn't approach me. They weren't doing anything. It's unfair for security personnel to assume someone doesn't have good intentions when they have no reason to believe it," the singer said. Hot to go"I don't hate people who are fans of my music. I don't hate children. This is crazy. I feel sorry for the mother and the little girl that someone assumed they would do something and that I would feel uncomfortable. It makes me very sad. They didn't deserve this," she says.

The latest to explain her side of the story has been the girl's mother, Catherine Harding. The actress posted on Instagram about the incident. According to her, the security guard reprimanded them and told her she needed to teach her daughter to respect people's privacy. Harding maintains that she explained to the guard that the girl is used to being around well-known people, as her stepfather is very popular in Brazil, and that she is therefore fully aware of what boundaries she shouldn't cross. "Did she [Chappell Roan] send her to do it? Again, I don't know," Harding says. "I'd like to believe not, but at the same time I think you have a responsibility to make sure that the people who work for you and act on your behalf are really acting on your behalf. Why would she do it if she didn't have that authority to do so? I don't know. If she does, it's obviously a problem because it represents her in a way she doesn't want to be represented," she reflects.

Ada Law is Jude Law's fourth child. He has seven children with four different mothers (three sons with his first wife, Sadie Frost; one daughter with Samantha Burke; Ada Law with Christina Harding; and two more children with his current partner, Phillipa Coan). Jude Law and Catherine Harding dated for several months and had a child after their relationship had ended. In 2019, Harding began dating Jorginho, with whom she had a son in 2020. The couple married in 2025.