The Good Luck, Babe! singer took to social media to blast “entitled” fans for “creepy behaviour”
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The Missouri-born musician Chappell Roan has urged fans to stop “harassing” and “stalking” her in public, explaining that she doesn’t care if others think that her boundaries are “selfish”.
In a TikTok posted on 19 August, the singer-songwriter asked her fans: “If you saw a random woman on the street. Would you yell at her from the car window? Would you harass her in public? Would you go up to a random lady and say, ‘Can I get a photo with you?’ And [when] she’s like, ‘No, what the f**k?’ and then you get mad at this random lady, would you be offended if she says no to your time because she has her own time?”
“Would you stalk her family? Would you follow her around? Would you try to dissect her life and bully her online?… I’m a random b*tch. You’re a random b*tch. Just think about that for a second.”
In a second TikTok posted on 19 August, Roan continued to ask fans to respect her boundaries despite being in the public eye.
“I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever is a normal thing to do to people who are famous or a little famous, whatever. I don’t care that it’s normal. I don’t care that this crazy type of behaviour comes along with the job that does not make it okay, that doesn’t make it normal. It doesn’t mean I want it, it doesn’t mean I like it.”
“I don’t want whatever the f**k you think you’re supposed to be entitled to. Whenever you see a celebrity, I don’t give a f**k if you think it’s selfish for me to say no for a photo or for your time or for a hug. That’s not normal. That’s weird.”
“What’s weird is how people think that you know a person just because you see them online or you listen to the art they make. That’s f**king weird. I’m allowed to say no to creepy behaviour,” she concluded.
Roan was launched into fame this year after viral performances at Coachella and Lollapalooza but the 26-year-old has previously discussed how some of her fans cross boundaries.
Last month, Roan said she was considering quitting music due to obsessive fans, telling the Comment Section podcast: “People have started to be freaks, [they] follow me and know where my parents live, and where my sister works. All this weird sh*t … A few years ago when I said that if [there were] stalker vibes or my family was in danger, I would quit. And we’re there. We’re there.”
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