Chappell Roan has revealed that she has received support from some of the biggest names in music, after publicly calling out the constant harassment and creepy behaviour she has been subjected to by her fans.
In a new Rolling Stone cover story, Roan elaborated on comments she made on her TikTok account last month, disclosing that she now has security after a stalker appeared at her parents’ home in Missouri and Roan’s hotel room in New York.
Roan says she has since received supportive phone calls, text messages and invitations to meet up with artists such as Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Katy Perry, Hayley Williams, Miley Cyrus, Lorde, MUNA, Lady Gaga, and boygenius, to name a few.
She shared a message to the author of the article from Mitski, who has had made her own struggles with fame and fandom quite public. “I just wanted to humbly welcome you to the shittiest exclusive club in the world, the club where strangers think you belong to them and they find and harass your family members,” Mitski wrote.
Sabrina Carpenter, who aexperienced a similar rise in superstardom over the past few months, has invited Roan to "meet up and unpack their summers."
“We’re both going through something so fucking hard … she just feels like everything is flying, and she’s just barely hanging on,” Roan added. “It was just good to know someone else feels that way.”
She tries not to appear like an opportunistic name-dropper, but Roan wants people to know these other pop stars "are girls who are good people, who are helping other girls out. I’m name-dropping them because people just need to know that people are good people.”
Elton John is one of the few men to offer an ear or a shoulder. (The others are Orville Peck, Noah Kahan and Troye Sivan.) The legendary singer-songwriter even went so far as to call her 11 times in five days, hoping to reach her and give her some advice. At first she thought it was a prank, but when they connected she told him about her struggles, to which he said, "If you need to stop, say stop.”
“I am very protective of her,” John tells Rolling Stone. “She is kind, innocent, and wonderful. She is not ‘Chappell Roan’ offstage – a bit like me. She is one of those people who I felt like I have known for a long time.”
You can read the full cover story here.