Chappell Roan talks about fame changing her life with fans turning into stalkers

Chappell Roan has seen a meteoric rise in her career in the past year, but the singer has found that fame and the media frenzy that comes with it is not all it's cracked out to be.

On the Wednesday, July 17, episode of The Comment Section podcast, the singer-songwriter discussed with host Drew Afualo all the drawbacks of fame. She said about intrusive fans:

"People have started to be freaks—like, [they] follow me and know where my parents live, and where my sisters live, and where my sister works... All this weird sh*t."

The 26-year-old also recalled something she promised herself years ago. Chappell Roan said that she told her younger self that if she ever became famous and her fans started giving her the "stalker vibes" or if her fame would put her family in danger, she would quit the music scene.

Talking about whether she's getting that vibe from fans now, she told Afualo:

"We're there."

It's not the first time that Chapell Roan has opened up about her struggles coping with her newfound fame. Last month during a concert at the Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, the Roan tearfully addressed the crowd about how it's "hard to keep up" with her career that's currently "going really fast."

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Chappell Roan said she's "pumped the brakes" on her career

Talking about the aftermath of her meteoric rise to stardom on the podcast, the My Kink is Karma artist gets candid that she's pumping the brakes on drawing more media attention to herself. While it's great to be known through her music, the consequence is sometimes crazy to bear, which the singer-songwriter said is putting her in a kind of "battle." She told Afualo:

"I'm just kind of in this battle, I've like pumped the brakes on honestly anything to make me more known."

Talking about her explosive rise to fame, she further noted:

"It's kind of a forest fire right now... I'm not trying to do a bunch of sh*t."

The singer's career indeed exploded in the months following her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which recently reached #5 on the Billboard 200. She also made headlines after performances at Coachella and later at the Governor's Ball 2024 and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

And while there are consequences to her sudden stardom, Chappell Roan admitted on the podcast that it wasn't all bad. She mentioned that fellow musicians whom she looked up to when she was younger are now her peers, which is "sick," according to her.

One of her biggest pinch-me moments involved her idol and her "first concert," Miley Cyrus. She told Afualo that the Flowers singer had invited her to a party.