April 27--Fashion designer Rachel Roy canceled a planned Saturday panel appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival for a "family matter," festival reps announced Wednesday.
The announcement comes a day after Roy denied rumors she is the woman at the center of Jay Z cheating rumors sparked by the release of his wife Beyonce's new album "Lemonade." Beyonce references a "Becky with the good hair," and Roy hinted at that lyric in a now-deleted Instagram post that was bombarded by Beyonce fans over the weekend.
"My Instagram post was meant to be fun and lighthearted, it was misunderstood as something other than that," Roy, 42, said Tuesday in a statement provided to People magazine. "There is no validity to the idea that the song references me personally. There is no truth to the rumors."
Roy also canceled a Monday appearance in New York.
Humanities Festival reps said the "Style Matters" event is still set to take place at 12:30 p.m. at the Art Institute's Fullerton Hall with designer Maria Pinto, Chicago Manual of Style Online's Q editor Carol Saller, New York Times reporter Jennifer Schuessler, journalist Jude Stewart and School of the Art Institute Fashion Resource Center director Gillion Carrara.
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