The Name Her Daddy host is the main target of the brand new two-part Hulu docuseries Name Her Alex. Directed by Ry Russo-Younger, the movie follows Cooper’s rise to podcast powerhouse, together with her 2024 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and her journey to the altar with husband Matt Kaplan.

However essentially the most pivotal second within the collection takes viewers again to earlier than she was a family identify.

Within the doc, which debuted on the Tribeca Movie Competition and begins streaming June 10, Cooper claims she was the sufferer of sexual harassment throughout her time taking part in Division I soccer at Boston College. Cooper alleges that her former head coach, Nancy Feldman, made undesirable feedback about her physique and infrequently tried to get her alone.

“I felt a variety of anger — anger at my coach, anger at my faculty, and anger on the system that allowed this to occur,” Cooper says within the movie. “I do not suppose anybody might’ve ready me for the lasting results that got here from this expertise. She turned one thing that I liked a lot into one thing extraordinarily painful.”

Cooper’s mom Laurie, who takes half within the doc, remembers her daughter’s preliminary pleasure about becoming a member of BU underneath a revered feminine coach. Feldman has since retired, stepping down as head coach in 2022 after 27 years main the ladies’s workforce.

“Boy, that turned,” she says within the documentary. “The entire thing turned.”

In response to Cooper, the alleged harassment started throughout her sophomore yr. “I used to be decided to make a reputation for myself on that subject, so when my coach began to pay further consideration to me, I figured it was most likely as a result of I used to be taking part in nicely,” Cooper explains. “My sophomore yr, every little thing actually shifted. I began to note her actually beginning to fixate on me far more than some other teammate of mine.”

“It was complicated as a result of the main target wasn’t like, ‘You are doing so nicely. Let’s get you on the sphere. You are going to be a starter.’ It was all based mostly in her eager to know who I used to be relationship, her making feedback about my physique, and her at all times eager to be alone with me,” she provides.

Cooper and her former dormmate and teammate, Alex Schlobohm, each allege that Feldman often commented on Cooper’s look throughout workforce movie critiques.

“We’re gonna rewind my tape each 5 seconds and we’re gonna speak about my hair and my physique,” Cooper remembers, quoting Feldman as saying, “‘Have a look at these legs. Everyone have a look at Alex in her uniform.’”

She additionally alleges the coach would “pull me in, simply be watching me, sit subsequent to me on the sofa, put her hand on my thigh,” describing how “I felt so deeply uncomfortable.”

Nonetheless, she felt trapped: “I used to be attending BU on a full-tuition scholarship. If I did not observe this lady’s guidelines, I used to be gone.”

Cooper additionally recalled a chilling incident, wherein she claims Feldman requested if she’d had intercourse the night time earlier than a event, after which benched her after seeing a person drop her off on campus.

“Each time I attempted to withstand her, she would say, ‘There may very well be penalties,” Cooper remembers. “And there have been.”

After Cooper claims her coach started to get much more invasive, with questions digging into her intercourse life and luring her into her automobile alone, the 30-year-old web character says she started going out of her solution to keep away from Feldman.

“I began making an attempt to spend as little time as attainable together with her; taking completely different routes to apply the place I knew I would not run into her; throughout conferences, I’d attempt to sit as distant from her as attainable,” Cooper says. “Actually something to not be alone with this lady.”

Finally, her mother and father contacted attorneys, who allegedly confirmed what they had been coping with.

“That is clearly a case of sexual harassment,” Laurie says, earlier than recalling a warning from attorneys: “‘If I am gonna be actual with you, they are going to drag this on for years and this will probably be your life.’”

Cooper and her household nonetheless reported Feldman to the BU athletics division, however she claims the college took no actual motion.

“I wish to play my senior yr. I wish to end out what I labored my total life for, however I can not play for this lady,” she says she instructed them.

They mentioned, ‘We’re not gonna fireplace her, however you may hold your total scholarship and that is that. No investigation. Inside 5 minutes, they’d solely dismissed every little thing I had been by means of.”

Cooper selected to not play her senior yr, and Feldman remained in her function and was honored publicly, with December 11 even being declared “Nancy Feldman Day” by town of Boston.

In a farewell assertion throughout her 2022 retirement, Feldman mentioned, “Hopefully by being challenged, [her players] grew, discovered extra about themselves, and have become stronger, empowered, and ready for all times. That actually is the legacy I hope to depart.”

No expenses had been ever filed towards Feldman. The docuseries doesn’t embody a press release from the college or its former coach. TooFab has reached out to Boston College for remark however not but heard again.

Cooper launched Name Her Daddy a yr later, and has made record-breaking offers within the podcast world ever since. The present, which began out as a commentary about intercourse and relationships, transitioned to highly effective interviews, with the likes of Harris, Jane Goodall, Gwyneth Paltrow and extra sitting right down to to talk candidly with Cooper.

“Once I look again at the moment in my life, I used to be scared, hopeless,” she says throughout a go to again to BU. “I had no sources and no choices. And the minute I left that campus, I used to be so decided to discover a means the place nobody might ever silence me once more.”

Name Her Alex begins streaming June 10 on Hulu.