Chappell Roan films paparazzi ‘harassing’ her at Paris Fashion Week: ‘Disregarded as a human’

Lesbian pop queen Chappell Roan has never been shy about setting her boundaries when it comes to the paparazzi, and now the star has turned the camera back on the shutterbugs.

“The Giver” singer went viral over the weekend after confronting photographers who would not leave her alone outside a restaurant Paris Fashion Week.

However, instead of attempting to ignore or avoid the photographers, your favourite artist’s favourite artist pulled her own phone out and started recording them.

“When you’re disregarded as a human, this is what it’s like,” Roan said as she spun the camera around.

“I’m just trying to go to dinner and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me.”

Roan went on to say the group of paparazzi are “all the people who are completely disregarding all of my boundaries”, adding she had asked them to stop “following” and “harassing” her.

Chappell Roan films the paparazzi after repeatedly asking them to leave her alone.pic.twitter.com/74psDYMyXO

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This is not the first time Roan has called out photographers for their behaviour towards her, sparking much conversation amongst fans about how celebrities are expected to accept the treatment of aggressive paparazzis.

Back in the summer of 2024, after her stratospheric rise to fame thanks to sapphic pop bangers “Good Luck Babe!” and “Pink Pony Club”, Roan a series of TikToks urging her fans to stop “harassing” her in public and sought to set her personal boundaries.

In the videos, Roan listed off several instances which led up to the public plea with her fanbase and over parasocial relationships with celebrities, including fans kissing her without her consent, following her to hotel rooms and turning up at her parents house.

A few months later, at MTV’s Video Music Awards – where Roan won her first “Moonman” for Best New Artist – she had an altercation with a photographer on the red carpet.

In the viral clip, a photographer was captured reportedly telling Roan to “shut the f*** up”.

In response, she pointed at the photographer and said: “No, you shut the f*** up. Don’t! Not me, b***.”

Roan later clarified she was not upset about her success as an artist but about the abuse she is experiencing as someone in the public spotlight.

She told The Guardian: “I’m very turned off by the celebrity of it all. Some girls have been in this so long that they’re used to that, but I’m not that girl. I’m not gonna be a sweetie pie to a man who’s telling me to ‘shut the f*** up’.

“They think I’m complaining about my success. I’m complaining about being abused,” Roan concluded.

A month later, on the red carpet at the Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour concert movie premiere Roan called out a photographer who she alleged was abusive towards her at the Grammys earlier in the year.

“You were so disrespectful to me at the Grammys,” she said.

“You yelled at me at the Grammy party. Yes, I remember. You were so rude to me and I deserve an apology for that. You need to apologise to me.”

A staffer attempted to intervene but Roan was not backing down and could be heard saying: “No, no, no, you need to apologise.”

It is unclear if Roan ever got her apology.

In response to Roan’s latest criticism of paparazzi culture, fans were quick to support her.

“She’s so necessary for the culture actually like i need her to never shut up about things like these,” one fan wrote on X in a reply that gained more than 60,000 likes.

“i’ll always be on her side on this. paparazzi culture isn’t normal, it’s straight-up harassment. acting and singing are just jobs at the end of the day. stop hounding these people,” another said.

Actor and YouTuber Tyler Oakley even weighed in on the incident, writing: “personally, i like chappell roan establishing her boundaries & not just putting up with those who don’t adhere to them she already changed how photographers treat celebrities on red carpets, maybe this will change how paparazzi treat celebrities simply existing in public”