Jorginho told his side of the story, then Chappell Roan shared hers. And now, Catherine Harding — the soccer star’s wife and mom to the little girl who was allegedly left shaken by an encounter with the pop star’s security guard — is speaking out, too.
In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday (March 22), Harding — who also goes by Cat Cavelli and was a contestant on The Voice UK in 2020 — told followers that she’d decided to share her version of events due to the amount of messages she’s received about her husband’s post the day prior, in which Jorginho wrote that Roan’s bodyguard had allegedly spoken in an “extremely aggressive manner” to his 11-year-old stepdaughter, Ada, leaving her in tears while at breakfast at a hotel in São Paulo.
“I know Chappell has responded saying that it wasn’t her security, and that she didn’t do it,” began Harding, who shares Ada with ex Jude Law. “One hundred percent, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel.”
“He looks after artists,” continued Harding. “I don’t know if it was her personal security guard, but he was with her. Did she send him to do it? I don’t know. Look, I would like to hope not. But at the same time, I think you have a responsibility when you are a celebrity to make sure that the people that work for you and act on your behalf are acting on your behalf.”
Harding went on to say that on their way to the hotel’s dining area, Ada had simply noticed a girl with red hair that looked like Roan — whom the mother and daughter had been planning on seeing at Lollapalooza Brazil that night — and so the little girl decided to walk past the singer’s table to check if it was really her. “She didn’t have her phone, she didn’t try to take a picture, she didn’t approach her,” Harding said of Ada. “She just looked at her and smiled.”
“From that then came the security guard, who … had a very aggressive tone,” she continued, saying the exchange “overstepped a boundary” as the guard was “very large” and “quite intimidating.”
“For him to come over to a table with just a woman and her daughter eating breakfast to berate and scold us and say that he was going to complain … I was shocked,” Harding added. “I did actually say to him at the time, ‘If that’s the case that [Roan] doesn’t even want people to look at her, she is very welcome to eat breakfast in her room.’ This here is a public area.”
Harding also apparently tried to explain to the man that her husband is a celebrity as well, meaning Ada is used to being around well-known people and knows not to overstep or cross people’s boundaries — but he allegedly didn’t let up. “We came all the way to São Paulo to watch the show,” she concluded. “It was my daughter’s birthday present … which was a little bit ruined. I hope that if it wasn’t [Roan], that she learns to not allow people that work for her to treat people like this.”
The post comes on the heels of Roan’s own response to the allegations against her, which Jorginho first made on Saturday (March 21) in a message on Instagram Stories. After sharing the same story that his wife would later tell in her video, the defensive midfielder wrote, “It’s sad to see this kind of treatment coming from those who should understand the importance of fans … WITHOUT YOUR FANS, YOU WOULD BE NOTHING. AND TO THE FANS, SHE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR AFFECTION.”
But according to Roan, she hadn’t even been aware that a little girl had spotted her, much less that a guard had apparently yelled at her. “I did not ask the security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child,” the pop star said in a video of her own on her Story Sunday, specifying that the man hadn’t been her “personal” security. “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. That is crazy. I’m sorry to the mother and child … you did not deserve that.”
Since everything went down, Roan has completed her headlining slot at Lollapalooza, but according to Rio de Janiero’s mayor, Eduardo Cavaliere, she’ll never be able to say the same about Todo Mundo no Rio. The politician released a statement Saturday saying she was banned from ever performing at the concert series due to what had happened with Jorginho’s stepdaughter, under which the athlete commented heart emojis.
As for Ada and Harding, the pair did get to meet another Lollapalooza Brazil headliner: Lewis Capaldi. Shortly after her husband’s post about Roan, Harding shared a photo of her daughter with the Scottish singer and thanked him for his “kindness.”
