Name Her Daddy host Alex Cooper claims in her new Hulu documentary that she was sexually harassed by her soccer coach, Nancy Feldman, at Boston College.
Name Her Alex premiered on the Tribeca Pageant on Sunday, and partially one, the podcasting mogul particulars the harassment she suffered over three years on the faculty, accusing Feldman of commenting on her physique and asking questions on her intimate life, amongst different claims. Cooper, a high soccer participant in highschool, went to Boston College on a full scholarship.
“My sophomore 12 months, every thing actually shifted,” she stated within the documentary. “I began to note her actually beginning to fixate on me far more than every other teammate of mine. And it was complicated as a result of the main target wasn’t like, ‘You’re doing so effectively, let’s get you on the sphere, you’re gonna be a starter.’ It was all primarily based on her [Feldman] desirous to know who I used to be relationship, her making feedback about my physique and her all the time desirous to be alone with me.”
Cooper stated she would attempt to keep away from Feldman, however that her coach would retaliate by benching her throughout video games. It in the end ended with Cooper being kicked off the soccer group senior 12 months.
“It was this psychotic sport of you wanna play? Inform me about your intercourse life, I’ve to drive you to your night time class, get within the automotive with me alone,” she recalled. “I began attempting to spend as little time as doable along with her, taking totally different routes to apply the place I knew I wouldn’t run into her. Throughout conferences, I might attempt to sit as far-off from her as doable, actually something to not be alone with this girl.”
In Name Her Alex, Cooper claimed college officers “dismissed” her allegations in opposition to Feldman and that there was no investigation. Cooper graduated from Boston College in 2017, and Feldman retired in 2022.
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Boston College for remark.
In a Q&A following the premiere, Cooper shared why she selected to open up concerning the sexual harassment allegations within the documentary. “I feel lots of this course of nearly made me understand, if I’ve the funds to pay for a lawyer and I’ve the sources to do all these items, how is one other girl going to really feel snug to come back ahead? I’m nonetheless fucking scared up right here, you already know. And I used to be no person once I was in faculty. I did come ahead. I used to be denied, primarily. And so the story is irritating, as a result of I need to inform girls come ahead … However I did, and I wasn’t believed, after which it took me a decade.”
She continued, “I truly assume that is just the start. It’s actually opened my eyes to how tough the system is, and it’s so constructed in opposition to us as girls, and we’ve got to struggle so fucking exhausting to have our voices heard, and we’re denied, or we’re questioned, otherwise you really feel disgrace, and that began to essentially get in my head of, how am I about to not put this within the documentary? … I spotted, holy shit, I’ve a lot extra work to do, and I’m going to make use of my platform to hopefully encourage different folks to come back ahead and inform their tales, as a result of dialog is the one method that we’re going to truly have change and we’re going to make change.”