Alex Cooper is baring it all.
In a new Hulu docuseries, aptly titled Call Her Alex, the Call Her Daddy host details her rise to podcast super stardom, and looks back on the moments that got her there, including one alleged incident she says rocked her college years.
Cooper, 30, claims she was the victim of sexual harassment during her time playing soccer at Boston University, accusing former head coach, Nancy Feldman—who retired in 2022 after 27 years of leading the women's team—of making unwanted comments about appearance.
"I felt a lot of anger—anger at my coach, anger at my school, and anger at the system that allowed this to happen," Cooper says in the film. "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."
According to Cooper, the alleged harassment began during her sophomore year. "I was determined to make a name for myself on that field, so when my coach started to pay extra attention to me, I figured it was probably because I was playing well," Cooper explains. "My sophomore year, everything really shifted. I started to notice her really starting to fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine."
"It was confusing because the focus wasn't like, 'You're doing so well. Let's get you on the field. You're going to be a starter.' It was all based in her wanting to know who I was dating, her making comments about my body, and her always wanting to be alone with me," she adds.
In addition to commenting on her appearance during team film reviews, Cooper also alleges Feldman, would "pull me in, just be staring at me, sit next to me on the couch, put her hand on my thigh," describing how "I felt so deeply uncomfortable."
But the internet personality says she felt trapped: "I was attending BU on a full-tuition scholarship. If I didn't follow this woman's rules, I was gone."
One of the more troubling claims came when Cooper says Feldman asked if she'd had sex the night before a tournament, and proceeded to to bench her from playing her after seeing a man drop her off on campus.
"Every time I tried to resist her, she would say, 'There could be consequences,'" Cooper recalls. "And there were."
Cooper says did all she could to avoid Feldman.
"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, during meetings, I would try to sit as far away from her as possible. Literally anything to not be alone with this woman," she claims.
But eventually, things go to so bad that she and her parents contacted attorneys, and then the BU Athletics department.
"This is clearly a case of sexual harassment," Cooper's mom, Laurie Cooper, recalls being told by lawyers, who also warned the family that the case could "drag on for years" and that it "will be your life."
Cooper and her family also claim BU's athletics department did little to take action, despite written documentation of the alleged harassment.
"I want to play my senior year. I want to finish out what I worked my entire life for, but I can't play for this woman," she says she told them. "They said, 'We're not gonna fire her, but you can keep your entire scholarship and that's that.' No investigation. Within five minutes, they had entirely dismissed everything I had been through."
Cooper chose not to play her senior year, and Feldman went on to retire a few years later, full honors intact, with the soccer coach even earning the distinction of December 11 being declared "Nancy Feldman Day" by the city of Boston.
The alleged harassment was a pivotal moment for Cooper, not only in her life as a college student and young athlete, but one that would shape the trajectory of her career, with the incident helping serve as inspiration for her getting behind the mic.
"When I look back at that time in my life, I was scared, hopeless," she says in the doc during a visit back to BU's campus. "I had no resources and no options. And the minute I left that campus, I was so determined to find a way where no one could ever silence me again."
Parade has reached out to Boston University for comment.
Call Her Alex begins streaming on Hulu June 10.
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