Alex Cooper Accuses Her Faculty Soccer Coach of Sexual Harassment, Will get Emotional

Alex Cooper has come ahead with allegations of sexual harassment towards her former school soccer coach.

In her new Hulu docuseries Call Her Alex, which premiered on the Tribeca Festival in New York Metropolis on Sunday, June 8, the Call Her Daddy podcaster, 30, claimed she was sexually harassed by Nancy Feldman whereas attending Boston College (BU).

Cooper stated within the documentary that she seen Feldman “actually beginning to fixate on me, far more than every other teammate of mine, and it was complicated,” throughout her sophomore 12 months of school.

“[It] was all primarily based in her eager to know who I used to be courting, her making feedback about my physique and her at all times eager to be alone with me,” Cooper claimed within the documentary.

Feldman, Boston College and the college’s athletic division didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for touch upon Sunday, June 8.

Cooper, who played for BU from 2013 to 2015, additionally alleged that Feldman would touch upon her legs and would put her hand on her thigh. One time, she claimed Feldman requested her throughout a personal assembly if she had had intercourse the evening earlier than.

“It was this psychotic recreation of, ‘You wish to play? Inform me about your intercourse life,’ ” Cooper alleged, claiming that Feldman would inform her, “I’ve to drive you to your evening class. Get within the automotive with me alone.”

“I felt so deeply uncomfortable,” added the podcaster.

Talking about why she felt she could not converse out concerning the alleged abuse, Cooper stated, “I used to be attending BU on a full-tuition scholarship. If I didn’t comply with this girl’s guidelines, I used to be gone.”

In accordance with Cooper, she spoke concerning the alleged sexual harassment with her parents, who contacted attorneys. Nevertheless, the attorneys warned Cooper that the college would drag out a case for years.

Boston College athletics officers additionally allegedly didn’t take motion after Cooper and her mother and father supplied written documentation of Feldman’s inappropriate interactions.

The school didn’t fireplace Feldman, although the coach later retired in 2022. Cooper didn’t play soccer her senior 12 months, however she saved her scholarship.

Within the documentary, the undertaking’s director, Ry Russo-Younger, requested Cooper to stroll onto the college’s soccer area and mirror on the alleged sexual harassment.

Throughout a Q&A held after the documentary’s premiere on June 8, Cooper stated that it took her 10 years to talk out — and her resolution to take action was partly due to the undertaking.

“At this level within the filming course of, I used to be undecided I needed to speak about this expertise,” she stated through the Q&A, referring to the second she returned to the college campus.

Cooper continued, “I used to be nervous and scared, and so [Russo-Young] was extremely supportive and simply stated, ‘Let’s simply go and let’s have a look at what comes up.’ ”

“The minute I stepped again on that area, I felt so small,” Cooper recalled. “I simply felt like I used to be 18 years previous once more, and I used to be in a scenario with somebody able of energy who abused their energy, and I felt like I wasn’t the ‘Name Her Daddy’ lady. I wasn’t somebody who had cash and affect or no matter. I used to be simply one other girl who skilled harassment on a stage that modified my life without end and took away the factor I liked essentially the most.”

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Cooper additionally stated through the Q&A that the entire saga was “irritating” for her, “as a result of I wish to inform girls to return ahead and say it, however I did, and I wasn’t believed, after which it took me a decade.”

“I am not ashamed that it took me 10 years,” she added. “Nevertheless it makes me query rather a lot, and I feel this documentary, as tough because it was to discover, I truly assume that is just the start.”

“It is actually opened my eyes to how tough the system is, and it is so constructed towards us as girls,” Cooper continued.

Name Her Alex premieres on Hulu on June 10, with each episodes dropping directly.

In the event you or somebody you recognize has been a sufferer of sexual abuse, textual content “STRENGTH” to the Disaster Textual content Line at 741-741 to be related to an authorized disaster counselor.