‘Call Her Daddy' podcast star accuses her ex-soccer coach of sexual harassment
The star of the popular Call Her Daddy podcast is calling out her former soccer coach with a bombshell allegation of sexual harassment.
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In her upcoming documentary, Alex Cooper claims that she was sexually harassed by her soccer coach during her time at Boston University.
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In the doc, titled Call Her Alex and releasing on streaming platform Hulu in the U.S. on Tuesday, Cooper says that the ordeal occurred a decade ago over the course of three years and that the alleged sexual harassment at the hands of former head coach Nancy Feldman escalated until Cooper left the team in her senior year.
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'I felt a lot of anger — anger at my coach, anger at my school, and anger at the system that allowed this to happen,' the podcast host said in the documentary, according to Vanity Fair. '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.'
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Feldman coached the school's women's soccer team for 22 years before retiring in 2022. Cooper said that Feldman began to 'fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine' during her sophomore season.
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Cooper was a member of the Terriers from 2013-15, when Feldman allegedly took an interest in her and would make uncomfortable comments about her body and her personal life — including asking Cooper if she had been sexually active the previous night.
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Cooper also alleges that the former coach would try to get her alone and inappropriately touch her thigh.
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'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,'' Cooper said, according to the outlet. '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.
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'Literally anything to not be alone with this woman.'
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