Alex Cooper Accuses Former Soccer Coach of Sexual Harassment
Alex Cooper is revealing a very serious allegation.
The 30-year-old Call Her Daddy host, who played soccer for Boston University from 2013 to 2015, accused her former coach Nancy Feldman of sexual harassment in her new Hulu docuseries Call Her Alex.
In the documentary, she alleges that Nancy “really starting to fixate on me, way more than any other teammate of mine, and it was confusing,” per THR.
“It was all based in her wanting to know who I was dating,” she continued, “her making comments about my body and her always wanting to be alone with me.”
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She said it happened through her sophomore year of college, and that the coach would go so far as putting a hand on her thigh and asking if she’d had sex the previous night.
“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,’” she recalled.
“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.”
Alex said she “felt so deeply uncomfortable” at the time, but also felt she couldn’t speak out about the alleged abuse because she didn’t want to jeopardize her full-tuition scholarship.
“If I didn’t follow this woman’s rules,” she noted, “I was gone.”
When she did attempt to provide university officials with written documentation of the coach’s inappropriate actions, she alleged that they “dismissed” her allegations and did not investigate the matter.
The former coach since retired in 2022, but Alex noted in the Q&A after the screening of her documentary that officials who brushed off her allegations were still there at the college.
“During the filming of this documentary, I found out that the harassment and abuse of power is still happening on the campus of Boston University,” she alleged. “I knew in that moment, if I don’t speak about this. It’s going to continue happening.”
“I’m thinking about the amount of women who’ve probably experienced this, not just on that campus, but on a larger scale in the workplace,” she continued. “This isn’t just happening on college campuses for soccer. This is everywhere. This is systemic.”