Last weekend, Catherine Harding and her 11-year-old daughter Ada Law were having breakfast in a São Paulo hotel restaurant. They were there to attend Lollapalooza Brasil, and even more specifically, Ada wanted to see her favorite artist, Chappell Roan. When Ada thought she spied Chappell at the same hotel restaurant, Ada walked by Chappell’s table and smiled. The child did not approach Chappell or ask for an autograph or anything – she just wanted to see if it was really Chappell. Shortly after, bodyguard Pascal Duvier went over to Catherine and Ada’s table and began aggressively lecturing Ada and Catherine about Chappell’s privacy and how celebrities should never be looked at by children and how Catherine is a bad mother for allowing Ada to walk past Chappell’s table. Ada’s stepfather, Brazilian superstar/footballer Jorginho posted about it on Instagram, calling out Chappell for her bodyguard’s nasty behavior. Chappell then posted a video from bed in which she vaguely denied that the bodyguard worked for her personally and suggested that the guy worked security for the hotel. The hotel backed up Harding and Jorginho’s version of events. The Mail did some digging and discovered that the bodyguard in question is a familiar bodyguard-to-the-stars, Pascal Duvier, and that he used to work for Kim Kardashian. Well, now Duvier has posted a message on his Instagram:
I do not normally address online rumors, but the accusations currently circulating are false and constitute defamation.
I take full responsibility for the interactions on March 21st. I was at the hotel on behalf of another individual, and I was not part of the personal security team of Chappell Roan. The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals. I made a judgment call based on information we obtained from the hotel, events I had witnessed in the days prior and the heightened overall security risk of our location. My sole interaction with the mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of the encounter is regretful.
First of all, LOL. Not a bodyguard-to-the-stars acting as if an 11-year-old child walking by Chappell Roan’s table was a well-known security threat who was being watched by multiple security apparatuses. He’s also suggesting that the hotel had told private security to watch Catherine, Jorginho and 11-year-old Ada. Second of all, even if he wasn’t being directly employed by Chappell Roan, HE WAS ACTING ON HER BEHALF. Random security guys being employed by (presumably) Lollapalooza Brasil are not going to aggressively bully a child to tears in a hotel without their primary protectee’s say-so. Third and last thing: this explanation reeks of a payoff for Duvier to fall on his sword because Pink Pony Karen is being dragged to hell and back this week. Too bad, the dam broke. Now people are learning about all of the lies she’s been telling this whole time.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images and Pascal Duvier’s Instagram.
