“I wasn’t even mad!”
the pop star tells Yang on his “Las Culturistas” podcast with Matt Rogers.
“I wasn’t even mad!”
Chappell Roan at the Grammy museum in 2024; Bowen Yang as Moo Deng on ‘SNL’.Credit:Rebecca Sapp/Getty; Will Heath/NBC via Getty
“I was like, ‘I bet she thinks it’s funny,'” Rogers said.
“I did!”
“I didn’t feel anything.”
Chappell Roan performs on ‘SNL’ in 2024.Will Heath/NBC via Getty
“But I’m not,” Roan repeated.
“I was like, ‘Is she okay?'”
“And Sasha was like, ‘Yeah, girl, she’s laughing.
She’s loving it.’
I was like, ‘Okay, well, then that’s fine.'”
Roan cleared the air on the podcast, while calling the sketch “lighthearted” and “harmless.”
“People don’t have to get mad on my behalf,” Roan said.
“We’re fine.
So what is there to be mad about?
Also, this is what happens, that isSNL.
It’s comedy.”
“And for people to even if youwereto push it further, harmless.
I don’t understand.
I just don’t know the line anymore,” she continued.
Yang and Rogers went on to discuss the response from Roan’s fans.
“It’s a love bombing thing, or it’s like limerence.
It’s like they’re obsessed with you and so they will die if anything goes wrong.”
“It’s parasocial,” Rogers explained.
“It’s like, ‘I need to protect this person.
“Life is not funny right now.”
“Exactly,” Rogers agreed.
“And meanwhile, that was a really complicated, weird time.
I remember getting texts from people being like, ‘Are Bowen and Chappell okay?’
I was like, ‘First of all, they don’t really know each other that well.
Second of all, I’m sure they are.
Third of all, why are we assuming that people don’t have senses of humor?
It’s Chappell Roan, y’all.”
I’m like, ‘This girl is funny.
We’re all having fun.’
It’s pop stardom.
But it comes from a good place.”
“Right,” Rogers said with a laugh.
“There’s always silence.”
“you could always not say something,” Roan continued.
“And you know what?
I didn’t feel protected and I didn’t feel unprotected.
Because I didn’t need it either way.
Because I was not offended.”
“Reminder: women owe you nothing.
That is the project.
Last year, the 27-year-old Grammy winner called out fans making an unwanted intrusion into her personal life.
“What I do not accept are creepy people, being touched, and being followed.”
Listen to the full episode ofLas Culturistaswith Roan above.
