Chappell Roan sparked a dialog about fame after posting TikToks about her boundaries. (Getty)
Final month, Chappell Roan sparked a dialog about fame after posting a sequence of TikToks urging her followers to cease “harassing” her in public. Now, she has recalled the “last straw” in a string of “disturbing incidents”, prompting her public assertion on boundaries.
The LGBTQ+ singer-songwriter has been launched into the mainstream pop scene after years of labor within the music business, which included offering vocals on one in every of Olivia Rodrigo’s albums.
After posting a string of TikTok movies and an announcement on Instagram along with her clear-cut boundaries about fame, Roan has spoken in regards to the cases which led as much as her public plea along with her fanbase and prompted wider conversations about parasocial relationships.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, she instructed of how she has a stalker – “somebody Roan had met again in Missouri” – who has even turned up at her guardian’s home and Roan’s lodge room in New York.
The singer even recalled how followers found her flight data and met her at Seattle airport in July. A person harassed her for her autograph, and wouldn’t cease till airport police got here alongside. The identical man was there on the airport with the paparazzi when she arrived again in LA.
The “Pink Pony Membership” hitmaker instructed the outlet: “I obtained dwelling and dropped to my knees. I’ve a tough time crying now due to my meds, however I sobbed and was screaming.”
Then, Roan recalled that final month she was at a bar celebrating her buddy’s birthday. While she was there, “a fan grabbed and kissed her”. She discovered later that night that somebody referred to as her father after his quantity was leaked on-line.
“That was the ultimate straw for her and prompted the TikToks in addition to an identical assertion she posted on Instagram.”
Roan additionally instructed the outlet that fellow celebrities within the music business have provided their help, together with Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Hayley Williams, and Girl Gaga – who’s a self-proclaimed “enormous” Chappell Roan fan – and Boygenius’ Phoebe Bridgers.
“I’m not attempting to name-drop,” she stated. “I’m attempting to inform you there are ladies who’re good folks, who’re serving to different ladies out. I’m name-dropping them as a result of folks simply must know that individuals are good folks.”