Chappell Roan demands an apology from 'rude' red carpet photographer

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Chappell Roan has confronted the photographer who reportedly yelled at her during an altercation at the MTV Music Video Awards last month.

The 26-year-old “Pink Pony Club” musician, who rose to international fame in recent months with her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern PrincessShe had a heated exchange with a member of the paparazzi at the VMAs ceremony in September when she scolded back, saying, “You shut the fuck up. No, not me, bitch.”

The same photographer appeared to be working as Roan, real name Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, walked the red carpet for the premiere of Olivia Rodrigo's tour film. OFFALon Friday evening (October 25).

In a clip shared online, Roan is seen posing on the red carpet before pointing directly at a photographer, walking up to him and saying, “They were so disrespectful to me at the VMAs.”

“You yelled at me at the VMAs. Yes, you did. I remember. You were so rude to me. And for that I deserve an apology. “You have to apologize to me,” Roan said.

It's unclear from the video whether the photographer apologized to Roan, but before the clip ended, another person could be seen trying to intervene.

Friday's incident came a month after Roan canceled scheduled dates at festivals in New York and Columbia in September, telling her fans that fame had become “overwhelming.”

Roan opened up about why she first attacked the photographer in September Entertainment tonight: “I think for someone who is very afraid of people yelling at you… the carpet is terrible, and I yelled back. “You can't yell at me like that.”

She added that she finds the environment of the red carpet events “overwhelming and quite scary.”

In August, the singer suggested that fandom culture made her uncomfortable, pointing out intrusive fan behavior in a statement: “Please stop touching me. Please stop being weird to my family and friends. Please stop assuming things about me.”

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In conversation with The Guardian Just weeks after her show was canceled, Roan opened up about how her life completely changed due to the dangers of being in the public eye.

“I go to therapy twice a week. I went to a psychiatrist last week because I thought I didn't know what was going on. She diagnosed me with severe depression – which I didn't think I had because I'm not really sad,” she explained.

“But I have all the symptoms of someone who is severely depressed,” she said, citing symptoms of brain fog, poor concentration and “a very lackluster outlook.”

Roan explained that she believes her mental health has been affected because her “whole life has changed.”

“I’m very put off by all the notoriety,” Roan said. “Some girls have been doing it for so long that they're used to it, but I'm not that kind of girl. I’m not going to be a walk in the park for a man who tells me to shut the fuck up.”

She added that she was warned by people in the music industry that fame felt like “going through puberty again.”

She continued: “My body feels different. It keeps the tension going in a completely different way: I have all these new emotions and I'm really confused. This is what it felt like to be 12. I look at (Lady) Gaga and even Sabrina (Carpenter) and Lana (Del Rey) – when I see them going out in public, I can't even imagine how many times they've had to prepare for this.”