Photographers were given a set of wild instructions ahead of Chappell Roan’s red carpet appearance at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday.
In a video circulating on social media, a red carpet attendant warns photographers that the “Pink Pony Club” singer is approaching.
“OK, Chappell’s coming. No one will yell at her or she will leave,” the woman is heard saying. “Everyone, be quiet, be nice, be smiling.”
While some photographers appeared to laugh at the demands, the “Hot to Go” singer was indeed treated respectfully on the carpet. In turn, she obliged to their requests.
“Can you do a spin for us, please?” a man asked politely as Roan responded by turning to her other side.
“Fantastic,” the photographer encouraged.
Roan’s rep didn’t immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The Grammy-winning artist, 27, has had a history of confronting rude photographers on the red carpet.
During the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, she snapped at a photographer after she was seemingly told to “shut up.”
“You shut the f–k up,” she fired back, adding, “Don’t. Not me, bitch.”
A month later, she called out another photographer during Olivia Rodrigo’s “Guts World Tour” movie premiere in Los Angeles, claiming he had been “disrespectful” to her at a previous event.
“You were so disrespectful to me at the Grammys. You yelled at me at a Grammy party,” she claimed after walking up to him.
The individual was not shown on camera, but he seemed to disagree with Roan.
Still, she didn’t back down.
“I need an apology for that. Yeah, yep, you do. …. You need to apologize to me,” she said, before a person eventually stepped in to escort her back to the red carpet.
Amid her battle for respect on red carpets, Roan has been candid about her mental health struggles. She revealed last September that she was diagnosed with severe depression.
She theorized her depression stemmed from her life changing rapidly after she experienced a meteoric rise to fame.
“Everything that I really love to do now comes with baggage,” she explained in an interview with the Guardian. “If I want to go thrifting, I have to book security and prepare myself that this is not going to be normal.”
“Going to the park, pilates, yoga – how do I do this in a safe way where I’m not going to be stalked or harassed?” she asked.
