Chappell Roan Flips the Script On Paparazzi Outside Paris Restaurant
The viral moment shows Roan turning the camera on photographers she says refused to stop following her after a Paris Fashion Week show.
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Chappell Roan has never been particularly interested in playing the polite pop star. Over the weekend in Paris, she proved that once again by turning the camera back on the paparazzi.
The singer went viral after confronting a crowd of photographers who had been following her during Paris Fashion Week. Instead of ignoring them or rushing past, Roan pulled out her phone and began filming the people filming her.
The moment unfolded outside a restaurant after Roan attended Sean McGirr’s Autumn/Winter 2026 presentation for Alexander McQueen. As she stepped out for dinner, photographers surrounded her, cameras flashing and voices calling out from every direction.
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In the now widely circulated video, Roan addresses the situation directly.
“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 then turned her phone toward the group of photographers standing around her.
“These are all the people who are completely disregarding all of my boundaries,” she said, explaining that she had repeatedly asked them to stop “following” and “harassing” her.
Another clip from the encounter captures her addressing the photographers more directly. “All of you, I’m asking you kindly to please leave me alone and stop following me and harassing me.”
As she filmed, the energy around her noticeably shifted. In footage that has been viewed millions of times online, some photographers lower their cameras or turn their faces away from Roan’s phone.
“They’re hiding their face, because they’re ashamed,” she said.
It is far from the first time Roan has pushed back against photographers. As her profile has grown over the past two years, she has repeatedly spoken about the pressure and hostility that can accompany sudden fame.
At the 2024 Video Music Awards, she made headlines after responding to a photographer who reportedly told her to “shut the f*** up” on the red carpet.
“No, you shut the f*** up. Don’t! Not me, b***.”
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A few months later, she confronted another photographer at the premiere of Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS World Tour concert film, accusing him of treating her disrespectfully 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.”
In interviews, Roan has made clear that her frustration is not with the success she has achieved, but with the behavior that often surrounds celebrity.
“I’m very turned off by the celebrity of it all,” she told The Guardian. “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.”
