Eric Benét has a message for celebrities — particularly Chappell Roan — whom he thinks treat fans with disrespect.
In a video posted Tuesday (March 24), the R&B musician filmed himself outside as he vented about how one of his “biggest pet peeves” is “public figures or celebrities who lack the grace to just take a picture with your fan or say hello or just acknowledge them if they see you on the street.”
“If you are so inconvenienced by somebody acknowledging you, somebody who adores you … I can’t stand y’all motherf–kers that do that, that shame people who adore you,” Benét continued. “They’ve allowed you to have this wealth, this incomparable [life] that less than half a percent of the world is allowed to experience. All they want is for you to see them for two seconds, you piece of s–t.”
The singer went on to acknowledge that “of course, there are times” when it’s not “appropriate” for fans to approach, such as when a celebrity is with their children or in the middle of eating dinner. But, he continued, “some of you celebrities are notorious for this piece-of-s–t behavior — [cough] Chappell Roan.”
“If you are a repeat offender of this particular offense, this is what I think,” he added, suggesting that people should stop consuming music and buying products from the artists in question. “I think all of the fans of said celebrity, you should collectively decide that you will relieve this celebrity of the struggles and the pain of being rich and famous.”
Billboard has reached out to Roan’s rep for comment.
Benét’s post comes as the Gen Z pop star has been thrust in the center of discourse surrounding an alleged incident in which a security guard yelled at 11-year-old Ada Law — the daughter of Jude Law and Catherine Harding — for simply walking past Roan and smiling at the star while at a hotel in São Paulo. After Harding’s husband, soccer star Jorginho, made a post claiming the exchange had left his stepdaughter “in tears,” Roan shared a video explaining that the bodyguard in question wasn’t her “personal security,” and that she hadn’t even been aware of a little girl walking by her.
Roan’s rep also previously told Billboard that the singer didn’t instruct the “third-party security officer” to take any action. “She did not direct her personal security or anyone on her team to interact with them,” the rep said. “Chappell holds her own teams to the highest standards and has zero tolerance for any kind of aggressive behavior towards her or her fans.”
Even so, Harding followed up with her own video saying that the hitmaker should take “responsibility” for the way people who work for her treat others, fueling more discourse about Roan’s relationship with her fans, a topic that has surged in and out of public interest since the Grammy winner first called out “toxic” fan behavior and asked strangers to stop touching her or demanding she give them attention in public spaces.
See Benet’s video below.
