Chappell Roan credits Miley Cyrus for giving her the courage to stand up for herself in awkwardly timed interview on Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special as she faces backlash amid hotel drama

Chappell Roan has praised Miley Cyrus for paving the way for future female artists like her in an awkwardly timed interview just days after it was claimed her security team made Jude Law's 11-year-old daughter Ada cry.

The Hot To Go hitmaker made a guest appearance on the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special which aired on Tuesday as she opened up about the impact Hannah Montana had on her life. 

Chappell has made a name for herself over they years for her controversial red carpet appearances, including at the MTV Awards in 2024 where she infamously told a photographer to 'shut the f**k up'.

And speaking to Miley in the Disney+ special she confessed: 'You literally walked so I can run. What I do on stage, like when I can go on a red carpet and just be.'

'Oh I was gagged for that,' Miley interrupted. 

Chappell continued: 'But that's because you took a lot of heat for that in 2012, 2013. Like I don't have to deal with that as much because the world really took it out on you. 

'To see you be the artist you are, to be able to do this it just shows your heart and your appreciation for your younger self and what got you here.'

'That means a lot to me,' added Miley. 

In 2024 Chappell clashed with a photographer who shouted 'shut the f**k up' by snapping back, 'You shut the f**k up - not me, b**ch.'

Then, at the premiere of Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour, the star confronted the photographer and accused him of being 'disrespectful' toward her at the Grammys.

'You were so rude to me,' she told him. 'And I deserve an apology for that. You need to apologise to me.'

Miley publicly defended Chappell at the time, when the singer revealed she had reached out to the rising star to offer support, and explained: 'I wish people would not give her a hard time.

'It's probably really hard coming into this business with phones and Instagram. That wasn't always a part of my life, and I'm not a part of it now.'

Later in April 2025, Chappell appeared at the centre of backlash once again when she was accused of pushing her assistant on the Fashion Los Angeles Awards red carpet.

The Pink Pony Club hitmaker has become known for her 'diva' outbursts and celebrity spats and they are now risking her alienating her huge fan base as many have urged her to leave the industry if she can't handle it.

And this week the star hit headlines once again after footballer Jorginho took to Instagram to claim his stepdaughter Ada, who wife Catherine Harding shares with actor Jude, was threatened by the singer's bodyguard after the child spotted the star in the same hotel in Brazil.

Amid a huge backlash the singer responded in a video insisting it was not her personal security and she did not ask anyone to approach the child.

'I'm gonna tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard - who is not my personal security...' she said in the video. 

'I didn't even see. I didn't even see a woman and a child. No one came up to me, no one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast at my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well. So the fact that a security guard who is...

'I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. I did not. They did not come up to me. I did not do anything. It's unfair for security to just assume someone doesn't have good intentions when they have no reason to believe it as there's no action been taken.

'I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children, like that is crazy. I am sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something.

'If you felt uncomfortable that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.'

However, the apology has not gone down well with Ada's mother Catherine, nor with many social media users, who have been quick to point out Chappell's lengthy history of scandals.

'I know that Chappell has responded, saying that 'It wasn't her security and that she didn't do it' well, 100 per cent this wasn't a security guard of the hotel that's what I can say, he looks after artists,' Catherine said in her video.

'Now I don't know if he's her personal security guard but he was with her, so that is all I know, did she send him to do it? Again, I don't know, I would like to hope not.

'But at the same time you have a responsibility when you are a celebrity that the people who work for you and act on your behalf are acting on your behalf.

'So would he do that if he didn't have her authority? I don't know. If he does, that's a big problem. because then he is representing her in a way she doesn't want to be represented.'

Catherine added that Chappell was right to say she 'didn't notice anything' because nothing happened and claimed all her daughter did was walk silently past the hitmaker's table.

'[My daughter] didn't have her phone, she didn't try to take a picture, she didn't do anything, she just looked at [Chappell] and smiled'.

Catherine went on to recall how a security guard, who she described as 'aggressive and intimidating' soon came over to their table and 'berated' her for being a bad parent.

'He said we should not harass people and all these other things and I did try to explain to him that she was a child and she was just excited to see an artist she liked'.

She explained to him that her daughter, who has a famous father and stepfather, understood 'boundaries' acceptable to people in the public eye, but said the security guard did not listen.

'I hope [Chappell] did not know, I hope she did not send her security over to do this. I really think she is a very very talented artist we liked her a lot we came all the way to São Paulo to watch her show.

'It was her birthday present, she asked for tickets, it was a little bit ruined because we didn't go to the show last night but that's how it is.'

Jorginho previously said that after the incident his step daughter was left 'extremely shaken and cried a lot' and accused the singer of not appreciating her supporters, adding: 'Without your fans, you would be nothing.'

The Daily Mail have contacted Chappell Roan's representatives for comment.