Brazilian soccer star Jorginho has acknowledged that he misinterpreted the moment that led him to publicly scorn queer artist Chappell Roan over something she was not involved in. Many, however, have found his admission disappointing, as it does not even include an apology.

Jorginho claimed on Instagram last month that Roan’s security detail made his daughter cry when she saw Roan dining at a hotel during Brazil’s Lollapalooza.

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“During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” Jorginho wrote at the time, sharing his gripe with the entire world instead of confronting Roan privately and directly.

“And the worst part is she didn’t even approach her,” he added. “She simply walked past the singer’s table, looked to confirm it was her, smiled, and went back to sit with her mum. She didn’t say anything, didn’t ask for anything. What happened next was completely disproportionate.”

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He then said a security guard spoke to his daughter and his wife, Catherine Harding, “in an extremely aggressive manner” and threatened to report them to the hotel if they did not leave Roan alone.

“It was just a child admiring someone,” Jorginho said, before scorning Roan in all caps: “WITHOUT YOUR FANS, YOU WOULD BE NOTHING. AND TO THE FANS, SHE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR AFFECTION.”

Roan then replied with a video. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child,” she said. “Like, no one came up to me. No one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast at my hotel… I did not ask my security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. 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.”

Chappell Roan responds to the controversy involving a security guard confronting a young fan. pic.twitter.com/i3bNx7b9FS

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Harding didn’t let Roan off the hook, though, saying she had “a responsibility… to make sure that the people that work for you and that act on your behalf are acting on your behalf.” 

It turned out, however, that the security guard who approached the child did not even work for Roan, and now, Jorginho has acknowledged that the army of trolls he sent after Roan was based on nothing. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro even banned Roan from ever performing at the festival Todo Mundo no Rio.

“I would like to give an update on what happened during Lolla weekend, as we have been seeing and hearing a lot over the past few weeks and felt it was important to clarify everything now that new information has come to light,” he reportedly wrote on his Instagram story.

“I made my initial statement in the heat of the moment, after hearing that my child and wife had been approached by an adult male security guard in an intimidating way. I reacted as any father would. My priority is, and always will be, protecting my family, and that is exactly what I did.”

“Since then, I have become aware of new information that has changed my understanding of parts of what happened,” he continued. “Chappell Roan made a public statement, reached out privately to Catherine, and our teams also spoke directly. It became clear that she had no knowledge of what took place at breakfast and had not asked anyone to approach them. She was understanding and sympathetic to what had happened to our child.”

“The security guard himself has since confirmed publicly that he was representing another artist at the hotel at the time,” he added. “While we still do not know what prompted him to approach them, and do not believe an 11-year-old at breakfast could reasonably be seen as any kind of security threat, it is now clear that he was not acting on behalf of Chappell.”

He concluded by calling it a “misunderstanding” and said he is “glad to set the record straight.”

“I regret the impact this situation has had on Chappell Roan, Catherine, Ada, and our family,” he said.

On social media, many commenters pointed out that he did not actually apologize and also called out a double standard by labeling it an example of men getting too emotional and stirring up drama.

One commentator on X slammed him for sparking an “international hate train against a gay female pop star” and then basically saying, “oops.”

“Would have been nice if he had bothered to get the facts before blasting her,” one person wrote on Instagram.

“Where is the apology, and how did he protect his family he wasn’t there,” wrote another. “Writing a rant online after an event is not protection.”

A third said, “crazy how a man can come on online without proof and lie on a woman and everyone believing it and start the most insane hate train and the he wait a whole 1 month later t retract his statement and still doesn’t apologize, chappell should sue all of them.”

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