{"id":375997,"date":"2025-12-29T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:30:07","slug":"chappell-roan-backtracks-on-brigitte-bardot-praise-over-far-right-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375997\/","title":{"rendered":"Chappell Roan Backtracks on Brigitte Bardot Praise Over Far-Right Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChappell Roan<\/a> praised Brigitte Bardot<\/a> upon learning of the French actress\u2019 death, but now has walked those comments back, after getting some pushback from fans who informed the singer that the late French star was famous for right-wing views that led to convictions for inciting hatred in French courts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHoly shit I did not know all that insane shit Mr. Bardot stood for,\u201d Roan wrote Monday in an Instagram Stories post. \u201cI do not condone this. Very disappointing to learn.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\n\tIt was not surprising that Roan would have at least some praise for Bardot, having name-checked her in the very first line of one of her most famous songs, \u201cRed Wine Supernova,\u201d which begins with the lyric: \u201cShe was a playboy, Brigitte Bardot \/ She showed me things I didn\u2019t know.\u201d Still, it did come as a shock to some Roan devotees that she did not qualify that with a disavowal or at least acknowledgement of the extremely polarizing social views Bardot became most famous for later in life. Roan\u2019s followup message pleaded ignorance of what some fans would consider Bardot\u2019s dark side.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRest in peace Ms. Bardot,\u201d Roan\u2019s initial message on Sunday read. \u201cShe was my inspiration for red wine supernova.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBardot\u2019s reputation has been fractured in the decades following her 1960s peak as a cinematic sex symbol who also appeared in art films like \u201cContempt.\u201d Outside of the realm of films, some remember her best for her animal activism and founding the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in the 1980s to advocate for animal rights. Others know her primarily for her statements against Muslims in European life, as Bardot was convicted five times in France on charges of inciting racial hatred.<\/p>\n

\n\tWrote Le Monde in a remembrance of Bardot Monday: \u201cBrigitte Bardot, the actress, was known for\u00a0\u2018Le M\u00e9pris\u00a0(Contempt)\u2019; Bardot, the political figure, embodied racial hatred. Convicted five times for inciting racial hatred, Bardot remained, for three decades, an exception in French culture \u2013 the only celebrity to openly defend the far right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLe Monde further said, \u201cHer advocacy for animals went hand in hand with her Islamophobia.\u201d Bardot first raised her voice to write a letter about animal slaughter\u00a0on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Kebir, then eventually took that objection much further. \u201cThey slaughter women and children, our monks, our civil servants, our tourists and our sheep, one day they\u2019ll slaughter us, and we\u2019ll have deserved it,\u201d she wrote in foreseeing a \u201cMuslim France.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBardot had been married since the 1990s to Bernard d\u2019Ormale, who served as adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right Front National. <\/p>\n

\n\tRoan is far from the only popular singer to have called out Bardot in song, as an iconic reference, if not necessarily a deeply personal one. Olivia Rodrigo compared the subject of her song \u201cLacy\u201d to \u201cBardot reincarnate.\u201d Going all the way back to 1963, Bob Dylan wrote the lines on his \u201cFreewheelin\u2019 Bob Dylan\u201d album: \u201cWell, my telephone rang it would not stop \/ It\u2019s President Kennedy callin\u2019 me up \/ He said, My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow? \/ I said my friend, John, Brigitte Bardot\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chappell Roan praised Brigitte Bardot upon learning of the French actress\u2019 death, but now has walked those comments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[140024,49,48,19632,75],"class_list":["post-375997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brigitte-bardot","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chappell-roan","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}