Popular podcaster Alex Cooper made startling allegations in the upcoming Hulu documentary, “Call Her Alex,” that she was sexually harassed by her soccer coach at Boston University. 

The revelation in the new Hulu doc, set to premiere on the streaming platform on June 10, comes 10 years after Cooper said she went through the ordeal, which she claimed was three years of escalating sexual harassment at the hands of former head coach Nancy Feldman until she left the team in her senior year. 

“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 “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Cooper 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.”

Feldman coached BU’s women’s soccer team for 22 years before she retired in 2022, but Cooper said that the former coach started to “fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine” during her sophomore season. 

Cooper was a member of the Terriers women’s soccer program from 2013-15. 

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It was during that time Cooper alleges Feldman took an uncomfortable interest in her and would make comments about her body and her personal life, including once asking Cooper if she had sex the previous night. 

The podcaster and media mogul also said Feldman would try to get her alone, put a hand on her thigh and stare at her. 

In the documentary, Cooper said that any time she would try to “resist” Feldman, the coach would tell her “there would be consequences.” 

“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 in the doc. “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 when Cooper and her family attempted to approach Boston University officials about their claims, she said they were brushed off and officials asked her, “What do you want?”

Alex Cooper attends the “Call Her Alex” Premiere – 2025 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Theater on June 08, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images for Tribeca Festival

Cooper claims Boston University officials told her family that they would not fire Feldman, but would allow Cooper to keep her full soccer scholarship. 

Cooper said that the school did not investigate her claims. 

Feldman compiled 418 victories to rank 22nd all time among NCAA women’s soccer coaches and was named conference coach of the year 12 times.

She was the program’s only coach since 1995, when it became a varsity sport.

Boston University did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Post. 

Cooper has hinted at a traumatic experience from her time playing soccer at BU, which included interviews with Cosmopolitan and The New York Times, and it was teased in the trailer for the documentary. 

The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival before its release on the streaming platform, and during a Q&A afterward, Cooper, who previously worked for Barstool Sports, said she was motivated to come forward as they were making the film. 

“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, and I spoke to one of the victims, and hearing her story was horrific, and I knew in that moment, if I don’t speak about this, it’s going to continue happening,” Cooper said, according to Deadline.

“Call Her Daddy” became one of the most popular podcasts on the planet after debuting in 2018 and surged to second on the podcast charts behind only “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before Cooper went over to SiriusXM last year in a massive deal.

Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper claims in her new Hulu documentary that she was sexually harassed by her soccer coach, Nancy Feldman, at Boston University.

Call Her Alex premiered at the Tribeca Festival on Sunday, and in part one, the podcasting mogul details the harassment she suffered over three years at the school, accusing Feldman of commenting on her body and asking questions about her intimate life, among other claims. Cooper, a top soccer player in high school, went to Boston University on a full scholarship.

“My sophomore year, everything really shifted,” she said in the documentary. “I started to notice her really starting to fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine. And it was confusing because the focus wasn’t like, ‘You’re doing so well, let’s get you on the field, you’re gonna be a starter.’ It was all based on her [Feldman] wanting to know who I was dating, her making comments about my body and her always wanting to be alone with me.”

Cooper said she would try to avoid Feldman, but that her coach would retaliate by benching her during games. It ultimately ended with Cooper being kicked off the soccer team senior year.

“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.”

In Call Her Alex, Cooper claimed university officials “dismissed” her allegations against Feldman and that there was no investigation. Cooper graduated from Boston University in 2017, and Feldman retired in 2022.

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Boston University for comment.

In a Q&A following the premiere, Cooper shared why she chose to open up about the sexual harassment allegations in the documentary. “I think a lot of this process almost made me realize, if I have the finances to pay for a lawyer and I have the resources to do all these things, how is another woman going to feel comfortable to come forward? I’m still fucking scared up here, you know. And I was nobody when I was in college. I did come forward. I was denied, essentially. And so the story is frustrating, because I want to tell women come forward … But I did, and I wasn’t believed, and then it took me a decade.”

She continued, “I actually think this is just the beginning. It’s really opened my eyes to how difficult the system is, and it’s so built against us as women, and we have to fight so fucking hard to have our voices heard, and we are denied, or we’re questioned, or you feel shame, and that started to really get in my head of, how am I about to not put this in the documentary? … I realized, holy shit, I have so much more work to do, and I’m going to use my platform to hopefully inspire other people to come forward and tell their stories, because conversation is the only way that we’re going to actually have change and we’re going to make change.”

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 leaving the team senior year.

The allegations were met with audible gasps in the audience 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, which she did 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 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 like I was 18 years old again. And I was in a situation with someone in a position of power who abused their power. And I felt like I wasn’t the Call Her Daddy girl. I wasn’t someone who had money and influence or whatever it be. I was just another woman who experienced harassment on a level that changed my life forever and took away the thing I loved the most,” she said during a Q&A after.

She chose to go public to help herself heal and because she claims it is still an issue at the college.

Feldman retired in 2022. University officials who Cooper claims brushed off her allegations are still there, she said. In the doc, she alleges the officials asked her, “What do you want?” but that said they were not going to fire Feldman, did not investigate, but said she could keep her full soccer scholarship.

Deadline has reached out to Boston University for comment.

“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, and I spoke to one of the victims, and hearing her story was horrific, and I knew in that moment, if I don’t speak about this. It’s going to continue happening,” Cooper claimed.

“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. This isn’t just happening on college campuses for soccer. This is everywhere. This is systemic. And so I knew it was time to speak about it, and I was terrified, and I’m still terrified. I’m shaking. I feel like I’m a decent public speaker at this point, but I’m scared,” she said.

It also pained Cooper that her that her alleged harasser was a woman, she said.

In the documentary, she claims a pattern that started sophomore year in earnest as the coach focused increasingly on her personally, not on her playing, with questions and comments about her body and her romantic life. She alleged Feldman would try to get her alone, put a hand on her thigh, stare at her, and once asked if she had had sex the previous night.

“It was this psychotic game of ‘You want to play, tell me about your sex life’,” Cooper said in the doc. When she tried to resist, she claimed, Feldman threatened “consequences.” She accused the coach of retaliating on the field by benching her often, including for most of a key championship game, to the confusion of her teammates.

Hulu release a trailer last week. It launches June 10.

Cooper has alluded to a college trauma in the past.

She initially launched the advice and comedy podcast Call Her Daddy in 2018, alongside her then co-host Sofia Franklyn, with Barstool Sports before signing a deal, thought to be worth around $60 million, with Spotify in 2021. The show exploded with women and became second only to The Joe Rogan Experience on the podcast charts before she moved to SiriusXM last year in a deal valued around $120 million.

“I think a lot of this process almost made me realize, if I have the finances to pay for a lawyer and I have the resources to do all these things, how is another woman going to feel comfortable to come forward? I’m still f–king scared up here, you know. And I was nobody when I was in college. I did come forward. I was denied, essentially. And so the story is frustrating, because I want to tell women come forward … But I did, and I wasn’t believed, and then it took me a decade, Cooper said tonight.

“I actually think this is just the beginning. It’s really opened my eyes to how difficult the system is, and it’s so built against us as women, and we have to fight so fucking hard to have our voices heard, and we are denied, or we’re questioned, or you feel shame, and that started to really get in my head of, how am I about to not put this in the documentary? …  I realized, holy shit, I have so much more work to do, and I’m going to use my platform to hopefully inspire other people to come forward and tell their stories, because conversation is the only way that we’re going to actually have change and we’re going to make change.”

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Young adults who go off to college often assume the things they leave behind will still be waiting for them.

But one college soccer referee was in for a rude awakening when he discovered his parents sold a pair of cleats he needed for the upcoming season.

The conversation that followed only made things worse.

Read on for the full story!

Just got home from first-year uni, and because I’m reffing soccer this summer, I asked my parents where my cleats were.

But they had some bad news for him.

Found out they sold them while I was gone.

It’s true they bought them for me a couple of years ago, and the last time I used them was fall of 2023.

When he asked for money to replace them, his parents weren’t pleased about the idea.

I wasn’t mad they sold them, but I asked if they could e-transfer me so I could buy a new pair, and they got upset.

They say I should buy my own new pair, but it’s kinda expensive, and I’m pretty upset they sold something that I thought was mine.

AITA?

These cleats may have been old, but they still mattered to him.

What did Reddit make of this situation?

This commenter thinks the parents really did cross a line here.

Selling a pair of used cleats seems a bit unusual to this user.

These cleats rightfully belonged to him, regardless of who paid for them.

These parents definitely made a misstep in this commenter’s eyes.

Wanting help replacing something he needed wasn’t entitled — it was reasonable.

They must be pretty hard up.

If you liked that story, read this one about grandparents who set up a college fund for their grandkid because his parents won’t, but then his parents want to use the money to cover sibling’s medical expenses.

The hype train is rolling for Clemson football in 2025, as the program seeks back-to-back Playoff appearances and conference titles for the first time since its elite run from 2015-20.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Just two months away from the start of fall training, Harvard women’s soccer is excited to announce its Fall slate. The schedule includes nine matches on its home pitch at Jordan Field and challenging matchups against a number of strong opponents from around the region and the nation. After a seven-win campaign and an Ivy League Tournament berth in the 2024 season, the Crimson is eager to get back on the pitch to begin its chase for another Ivy League Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance.
 
The Branca Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Soccer, Chris Hamblin, and his team will hit the training ground in early August before unofficially beginning the campaign with a pair of scrimmages on August 15 and 19. The second of the practice matches will be at Jordan Field and is open to the public.
 
The 2025 season will officially begin with a pair of away fixtures against regional foes Massachusetts (Aug. 24) and Fairfield (Aug. 29). A pair of familiar opponents for the Crimson, the team has played each of these squads at least once in the past three seasons.
 
Following the back-to-back road games, Harvard will begin a seven-match home stand that will run from September 1 through September 27. The stretch features the final five non-conference challenges for the squad and will lead into conference play at the tail end of the month. The homestand begins on Labor Day (Sep. 1) with an afternoon match against Big 12 foe Kansas State before the Monmouth Hawks come into town on Thursday (Sep. 4) to play under the lights at Jordan Field. Boston-based rivals Northeastern (Sep. 7) and Boston University (Sep. 11) will make the short trip across town to take on the Crimson and renew the rivalries. A date with the New Hampshire Wildcats on Sunday (Sep. 14) will round out nonconference play for the Crimson in what will be a rematch of the 2023 NCAA Tournament opening round.
 
Harvard’s Ivy League schedule is set to begin on Saturday (Sep. 20) with a contest against the Dartmouth Big Green. The homestand will come to an end on Saturday (Sep. 27) when the defending Ivy League Tournament Champion, Princeton, makes the trip up to Cambridge to battle the Crimson.
 
Harvard will hit the road for two straight weekends to make trips to Cornell (Oct. 4) and Yale (Oct. 11) while continuing league competition. Back-to-back Ivy League fixtures against Brown (Oct. 18) and Penn (Oct. 25) close out the Crimson’s regular season home schedule. The 2025 regular season will end on Saturday (Nov. 1) when the Columbia Lions will host the Crimson in New York City.
 
Harvard will look to qualify for the Ivy League Tournament for a third-consecutive season in 2025 after winning the inaugural tournament in 2023 and qualifying on the last week of the season in 2024. The semifinal round of the tournament – that will be hosted by the league’s top seeded team at the end of the regular season – is set for Friday (Nov. 7) with the championship match slated for Sunday (Nov. 9).
 
The winner of the conference tournament and any teams selected by the NCAA Tournament committee as at-large teams will begin the chase for a national title in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 15. The tournament shifts to pods of four teams in the rounds of 32 (Nov. 21) and 16 (Nov. 23), with the winner of the region moving on to the quarterfinal round of the national tournament on Nov. 29. The four teams remaining after the quarterfinal round will move on to the 2025 College Cup which will be hosted in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 5 and 8.
 
The Crimson returns a veteran group of student-athletes to the pitch in 2025 including 2024 All-Ivy League selections Rhiannon Stewart, August Hunter and Audrey Francois. Senior Vanessa Frelih and junior Anna Rayhill were recently chosen as the captains for the 2025 squad and will look to lead the talented squad who hopes to chase more success in the coming season.
 
All matches will stream live on the ESPN+ platform and fans can also follow the Crimson’s progress throughout the 2025 season on GoCrimson.com and through the team’s social media profiles on Instagram and X.