Alex Cooper is coming forward about her difficult past.
The 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 shocking new Hulu docuseries Call Her Alex.
In the documentary, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 8, the 30-year-old alleged, per The Hollywood Reporter, that Feldman "really starting to fixate on me, way more than any other teammate of mine, and it was confusing.”
But Cooper’s talents on the field weren’t often the topic of discussion.
"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."
As the patterns of behavior continued throughout her sophomore year of college, Cooper alleged that Feldman would go as 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.”
And while Cooper shared that she "felt so deeply uncomfortable" at the time, she 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."
And when she did attempt to provide university officials with written documentation of Feldman’s inappropriate actions, she alleged that they “dismissed” her allegations and did not investigate the matter.
Boston University shared in a statement to E! News, "Boston University has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment. We have a robust system of resources, support and staff dedicated to student wellbeing and a thorough reporting process through our Equal Opportunity Office. We encourage members of our community to report any concerns, and we remain committed to fostering a safe and secure campus environment for all."
E! News reached out to Feldman. Neither Feldman nor the BU has publicly responded to Cooper’s allegations.
While Feldman has since retired in 2022, Cooper emphasized during a Q&A after the documentary’s premiere, per Deadline, that the officials who brushed off her allegations were still there.
“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,” Cooper 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.”