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"They're hiding their face, because they're ashamed," the singer said while filming one person on her phone.
Chappell Roan at the 68th GRAMMY Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. Gilbert Flores/Billboard
Chappell Roan just turned the camera around on people who follow her in public, with the pop star documenting on her phone what it’s like to be “disregarded as a human” after a horde of fans and photographers appeared to surround her in Paris.
In a video taken by an onlooker that began circulating online Monday (March 9), Roan films herself in selfie mode as a swarm of people repeatedly shouts at her. “I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me,” she tells the camera before filming some of the strangers gathered around her.
“This person I’ve asked several times to go away, and they will not,” she continues, capturing someone who continued to ask her for an autograph — even as she was confronting them for such behavior — in her video. “They’re hiding their face, because they’re ashamed.”
“These are all the people that are completely disregarding my boundaries,” she added moments after saying she also felt “disregarded as a human.” “All of you, I’m asking you kindly to please leave me alone and stop following me and harassing me. No, I’m not gonna sign. This is what it’s like, if you were wondering how it is.”
Billboard has reached out to Roan’s rep for comment.
The Missouri native has been spending time in the city for Paris Fashion Week, attending shows for Rick Owens, Mugler, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen. Her encounter in France is far from the first time she’s put boundary-crossing people in their places, making headlines in 2024 after she called out the “predatory behavior” and “harassment” displayed by certain fans. She’s also publicly confronted photographers at award shows for allegedly yelling at her.
“For someone who gets a lot of anxiety around people yelling at you, the carpet is horrifying, and I yelled back,” she told Entertainment Tonight after one such instance at the 2024 VMAs. “You don’t get to yell at me like that.”
Roan hasn’t dropped new music since last year, coming out with two Billboard Hot 100 hits — “The Giver” and “The Subway” — in 2025. Her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
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