Chapell Roan Pleads With Fans to Respect Her Boundaries, Calls Out ‘Predatory Behavior'
The "Hot to Go!" singer posted a two-part TikTok last week where she urged fans not to harass and stalk her.
While she's on the verge of superstar status, pop singer Chappell Roan refuses to accept fan harassment.
In a two-part TikTok, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess artist expressed to fans that she wouldn't tolerate toxic fan behavior.
"I don’t care that it’s normal," she said. "I don’t care that this crazy type of behavior comes with the job, the career field I’ve chosen. That does not make it ok. That doesn’t make it normal."
On Friday (August 23), the Missouri native reiterated her stance in a letter that she shared on Instagram.
"For the past 10 years I've been going non-stop to build my project and it's come to the point that I need to draw lines and set boundaries," she began.
"I want[ed] to be an artist for a very long time. I've been in too many nonconsensual physical and social interactions and I need to lay it out and remind you, women don't owe you shit."
Roan continued by detailing that even when she's in performance or press mode, that she's at "work." "Any other circumstance, I am not in work mode. I am clocked out," she wrote. "I don't agree with the notion that I owe a mutual exchange of energy."
"Women do not owe you a reason why they don't want to be touched to or talked to," she added.
Roan defined this obsessive fandom as "predatory behavior (disguised as superfan behavior," and said it's "become normalized because of the way women who are well-known have been treated in the past."
To those who've questioned what drove her to become an artist, Roan said that while she embraces "the success of the project, the love I feel," she's opposed to "creepy people, being touched, and being followed."
Roan compared the behavior to street harassment, emphasizing that she doesn't want to be touched, and also asked fans to not be "weird" to her family and friends.
"And please–don't call me Kayleigh," she continued, referring to her legal name. "I feel more love than I ever have in my life. I feel the most unsafe I have ever felt in my life."
Roan ended with a kind send-off, thanking fans for reading the message, along with gratitude for their understanding and support, but it's understandable why she's had to vocalize her frustrations as of late. Some music fans have even gone as far to physically assault or throw items onstage to get the attention of their favorite artists.
