Podcast giant Alex Cooper, a top soccer player in high school who went to Boston University on a full scholarship, described what she claimed was three years of escalating sexual harassment by her coach there, Nancy Feldman, that she said ended with her being kicked off the team senior year.
The allegations came at the end part 1 of a new Hulu documentary series Call Her Alex, which just premiered at the Tribeca Festival. In a Q&A after, Cooper said it took her ten years to come forward, in large part because of the documentary, a behind the scenes look at the first live show of her hit podcast Call Her Daddy. The first leg of was in Boston. Director Ry Russo-Young asked her to walk out on the BU soccer field and reflect on what it meant to her.
“And the minute I stepped back on the field, I felt so small. I felt just felt like I was 18 years old again,” Cooper said at the Q&A. She said she chose to go public to help herself heal and because she fears it may be be an issue at the college. Feldman retired in 2002. But university officials, who Cooper claims brushed off her allegations, are still there, she said.
Deadline has reached out to Boston University.
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