Alex Cooper has come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against her former college soccer coach.
Cooper, host of the popular podcast “Call Her Daddy,” has accused her former Boston University soccer coach, Nancy Feldman, of uncomfortable encounters that Cooper characterizes as sexual harassment.
Cooper shocked everyone when she made the allegation in her new Hulu documentary “Call Her Alex,” which premiered on Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
According to Cooper, she and Feldman had a “normal relationship” during her freshman year, but things started to change in her sophomore year when Feldman began demanding to hear about her dating life.
“I started to notice her really starting to fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine,” Cooper says in the docuseries.
“And 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.”
Alex Cooper attended and played soccer for Boston University from 2013 to 2015.
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Cooper’s college roommate and soccer teammate, Alex Schlobohm, also appears in the docuseries, as she recalls witnessing some of the alleged harassment herself.
Schlobohm says: “There was a film session where Alex didn’t play a ton in the game, but for whatever reason, every minute that Alex played was highlighted during that film session. It was all based off of her appearance, whereas I felt like when she made comments about other players, it was about their performance.” Cooper adds: “We’re gonna rewind my tape every five seconds, and we’re gonna talk about my hair and my body. ‘Look at those legs. Everybody look at Alex in her uniform.'”
Things really became terrible during her junior year.
“One morning, my coach found out that I got dropped off on campus by a guy I was seeing, and she called for a private meeting between us,” Cooper says on screen. “She asks me, ‘Did you have sex last night?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ And she’s like, ‘I don’t know if you should be sleeping off campus.’ And I’m like, ‘All of the other girls on my team sleep off campus.’ I didn’t know what to do, and every time I tried to resist her, she would say, ‘There could be consequences.’ And there were.”
According to Cooper, when the team went to an NCAA tournament, Feldman wouldn’t let Cooper play during an important game.
“She was trying to punish me, and it made no sense to everyone else. My teammates were so confused why I wasn’t playing,” Cooper says.
“It was this psychotic game of, ‘You want to play? Tell me about your sex life. I have to drive you to your night class. Get in the car with me alone,'” Cooper says. 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.”
Feldman allegedly kicked Schlobohm off of the team at the end of her and Cooper’s junior year without giving a reason.
“The coach brought me in the next day and said, ‘You see what I just did to your friend? You’re not gonna live with her. You’re gonna live with who I want you to live with, and you will not be seeing her anymore,'” Cooper says.
South Carolina Congressman Threatens To Sue Over Alex Cooper’s Allegation
Social media influencer and podcaster Alex Cooper is accusing her former Boston University soccer coach of sexual harassment.
She said the alleged harassment led to her departure from the team her senior year. The coach, Nancy Feldman, retired in 2022.
Her allegations have some unattended consequences.
South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace threatened to sue New York Magazine over a social media post misidentifying the Republican as the soccer coach accused of sexually harassing ‘Call Her Daddy’ host Alex Cooper at Boston University over a decade ago.
‘@NYMag, and anyone repeating this lie: Take it down or lawyer up,’ Mace wrote in a response to the erroneous and since-deleted New York Magazine post. ‘We are demanding an immediate retraction and full correction.’
The post used Mace’s last name instead of Feldman’s.
‘You don’t get to smear me with a lazy, dangerous typo,’ read Mace’s post.
Mace made it perfectly clear she ‘never met,’ ‘never coached,’ and ‘never—ever—sexually harassed’ Alex Cooper.
