Irish mum hits back at Chappell Roan over incident with 11-year-old daughter

Catherine Harding has responded to Chappell Roan's claims

Harding and her partner, former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Jorginho, called out the singer for allegedly sending a security guard to accuse his young daughter of harassment.

Harding is reportedly London-born, but spent many of her teenage years in Ardcroney in Co Tipperary, and attended secondary school there. 

Via Instagram Stories, Harding and Jorginho claimed 11-year-old Ada, who is a fan of the pop star, was “in tears” following Roan's reaction.

Roan, whose real name Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, used the same platform to give her side of the story.

“I’m just gonna tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child, who were involved with a security guard who is not my personal security,” the 28-year-old singer said in an Instagram Stories video posted on Sunday.

“I didn’t even see a woman and a child, like, no one came up to me. No one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel, as well.”

The Grammy winner says that she did not ask the security official to “go up and talk” to the family on her behalf.

“I did not, [and] they did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything”, she said.

“It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions when they have no reason to believe because there’s no action even taken, like, that’s so not what I stand behind.”

“I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children, like, that is crazy,” she added, stating that she has no issue with any of her fans.

“I’m sorry to that mother and child that someone was assuming something that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”

"It felt like it really overstepped a boundary."

Harding, who is mother of Ada with her ex Jude Law, said she 'didn't realise it would get this crazy' after her and her husband issued the original statement.

Harding said the security guard spoke to her daughter in an “aggressive tone” and 'berated and scolded' them at the breakfast table.

“Even if she did send him or she didn’t send him, I don’t know, for me it felt like it really overstepped a boundary,” she added.

She reiterated what the initial statement said in a post on Instagram: "100 per cent, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel...I don't know if he was her personal security guard, but he was with her. That is all I know. Did she send him to do it? Again, I don't know."

"I think that you have a responsibility when you are a celebrity to make sure, I guess, that the people who work for you and that act on your behalf are acting on your behalf," she continued.

"Would he do that if he didn't have her authority to do so? I don't know. If he does, then, obviously, that's a big problem because then he's representing her in a way that she doesn't want to be represented.