Chappell Roan responds to online trolls: “People just assume you’re the villain”
After receiving much unwarranted online hate and harassment over the last 12 months, pop star Chappell Roan has hit back at online trolls in a new interview.
In a recent interview on TS Madison’s Outlaws, she explained the mentality behind her insistence on setting boundaries. “I cannot bear people saying I’m something I’m not. That’s what’s really hard online. People just assume you’re the villain,” Roan said.
She then said of trolls, who remain disgruntled no matter what she says or does in public, “Do you want me to just get to the point where I become agoraphobic? Or so stressed out, or so anxious to perform? You want me to get to that point? Because if I don’t say anything, I will.”
The ‘Pink Pony Club’ singer continued: “If I do not stand up for myself, I will quit because I cannot bear this. I cannot bear people touching me who I don’t know. I cannot bear people following me.”
She also faced much heat in February after winning the award for ‘Best New Artist’ at the 2025 Grammys. Roan used her acceptance speech to defiantly call for significant reform in the music industry. “It was so devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system, and so dehumanised to not have health [insurance],” she read aloud.
The performer has also been treated poorly by fellow workers in the industry, such as on the red carpet. A video previously went viral of Roan defending her personal space amid the spectacle of camera flashes. She reflected: “I’ve been treated better at my doughnut shop job than I have on a fucking carpet.”
The Grammy-winner continued: “People on the news treat me worse than how customers did. And I think when I started to say, ‘Don’t talk to me like that’ … That doesn’t mean that I’m a villain or ungrateful for what I have. It’s like, ‘Why is this customary?'”
Roan’s next live date is the Orange Warsaw festival in Poland on May 30th. After this, she will play Primavera Sound in Barcelona on June 7th.
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