Chappell Roan is clearing the air about that viral red carpet moment at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
Roan, 26, was seen clapping back at a photographer who shouted at her to “shut the f–k up” while she walked the red carpet at the UBS Arena in New York on Wednesday, September 11. In a widely circulated clip on social media, the “Hot to Go!” singer hit back, “You shut the f–k up. No, not me, bitch.”
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“This is quite overwhelming and quite scary,” the four-time VMAs nominee later explained to Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet. “I think for someone who gets a lot of anxiety around people yelling at you … the carpet is horrifying, and I yelled back. You don’t get to yell at me like that.”
Roan, who won Best New Artist and performed her hit song “Good Luck, Babe!” at the ceremony, has previously been open about dealing with her burgeoning fame and setting boundaries with 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?” Roan said in the first of two TikTok videos. “Would you go up to a random lady and say, ‘Can I get a photo with you?’ and she’s like, ‘No, what the f–k,’ and then you get mad at this random lady?”
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Roan continued, “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 bitch. You’re a random bitch. Just think about that for a second,” the singer concluded the video.
In a second video, Roan called out fans’ “creepy behavior,” saying, “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.”
She continued, “I don’t care that it’s normal. I don’t care that this crazy type of behavior comes along with the job, the career field I’ve chosen. That does not make it OK. That doesn’t make it normal. It doesn’t mean I want it. It doesn’t mean that I like it.”
