Chappell Roan isn’t afraid to speak her mind.
The newly anointed pop star princess sat down with Outlaws with TS Madison, where Roan discussed being the villain—and why she has no problem with it.
“I think that I've had like three [villain eras] in the past nine months probably just because I was the new girl in the pop game,” Chappell began, “Where I was like, ‘I don’t give a fuck what you say to these girls who have been doing this since they were 10 and have been told this is okay, how you’re treated.’”
She then explained that because she didn’t touch fame until she was 26, she “had a lot of time to realize, oh this is what it’s like to be an adult and how to be respected in a job.”
She continued, “I’ve been treated better at my donut shop job than I have on a fucking [red] carpet. 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, I’m not gonna show up for blah lalala, I don’t want to.’ That doesn’t mean that I’m a villain or ungrateful for what I have.”
She wondered why accepting this kind of behavior is “customary” and why people have “so much love” and apologize for Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan when “people were so evil to them.”
“Do you want me to just get to the point where I become agoraphobic?” the “Pink Pony Club” singer said. “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. 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… Or 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 has been outspoken almost since the outset of her career. Last August, after pulling the largest daytime crowd in Lollapalooza history, the 27-year-old shared on her Instagram Story that she wouldn’t tolerate toxic fan behavior, which includes harassment and stalking.
This March, she commented on how setting such boundaries has impacted her, telling Alex Cooper on Call Me Daddy that she thinks people are “scared” of her.
“I think I made a big enough deal about not talking to me that people do not talk to me. That’s, I think, the truth of it all. And I’ve been with people, friends who are artists, and they’re like ’It’s a force field around us. People don’t come up to me if I’m with you.’”
