Podcast star Alex Cooper accuses her Boston University soccer coach of sexual harassment in new doc
Popular podcaster Alex Cooper made startling allegations in the upcoming Hulu documentary, “Call Her Alex,” that she was sexually harassed by her soccer coach at Boston University. The revelation in the new Hulu doc, set to premiere on the streaming platform on June 10, comes 10 years after Cooper said she went through the ordeal, which she claimed was three years of escalating sexual harassment at the hands of former head coach Nancy Feldman until she left the team in her senior year. “I felt a lot of anger—anger at my coach, anger at my school, and anger at the system that allowed this to happen,” the “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Cooper said in the documentary, according to Vanity Fair.“I don’t think anyone could’ve prepared me for the lasting effects that came from this experience.
She turned something that I loved so much into something extremely painful.”Feldman coached BU’s women’s soccer team for 22 years before she retired in 2022, but Cooper said that the former coach started to “fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine” during her sophomore season. Cooper was a member of the Terriers women’s soccer program from 2013-15. It was during that time Cooper alleges Feldman took an uncomfortable interest in her and would make comments about her body and her personal life, including once asking Cooper if she had sex the previous night. The podcaster and media mogul also said Feldman would try to get her alone, put a hand on her thigh and stare at her. In the documentary, Cooper said that any time she would try to “resist” Feldman, the coach would tell her “there would be consequences.” “It was this psychotic game of, ‘You wanna play? Tell me about your sex life.I have to drive you to your night class, get in the car with me alone,’” Cooper said in the doc.
“I started trying to spend as little time as possible with her.Taking different routes to practice where I knew I wouldn’t run into her,...