Alex Cooper particulars alleged sexual harassment by BU soccer coach

Alex Cooper, host of the wildly popular podcast “Call Her Daddy,” revealed more allegations against her soccer coach at Boston University, where she played from 2013-15, in a two-hour, two-part documentary that premiered Tuesday.

The documentary, “Call Her Alex,” is based off Cooper’s 2023 podcast tour and features the origin story of Cooper’s multimillion-dollar brand called Unwell, centered around female empowerment.

The first half of the documentary focuses largely on Cooper’s life in Boston — and the allegations of sexual harassment she levied against former BU women’s soccer coach Nancy Feldman.

In the documentary, Cooper alleged that Feldman, who was BU’s coach from 1995-2022, made inappropriate comments of a personal and sexual nature about Cooper; threatened Cooper with retaliation and did so by benching her; and attempted to touch Cooper and be alone with her outside of team settings, during her time as a player.

Feldman has not responded to the allegations. Boston University also has not responded to multiple inquiries from the Globe.

“It was this psychotic game of, ‘Do you want to play? Tell me about your sex life,’ ” Cooper said in the documentary. “ ‘I have to drive you to your night class. Get in the car with me, alone.’ ”

During Feldman’s practice film sessions, Cooper said, “We’re going to rewind my tape every five seconds and talk about my hair and my body. Look at those legs. Everybody look at Alex in her uniform.

“We would be in preseason, my assistant coach would come over, ‘Coach needs to talk to you,’ ” Cooper said. “She would pull me in, just be staring at me, sit next to me on the couch, put her hand on my thigh. I felt so deeply uncomfortable. After practice, ‘All right, great work everyone. Alex, I want to see you in my office.’ ”

Cooper’s mother, Laurie, said in the documentary that a lawyer in 2015 identified Feldman’s behavior as sexual harassment, and that the family could sue. The lawyer, Alex Cooper said, advised that suing would “drag [on] for years” and that BU “will do everything they can to protect” Feldman.

Cooper also alleged that in 2015 she and her parents brought comprehensive documentation of Feldman’s behavior to Boston University athletic director Drew Marrochello and his staff. Cooper alleges they did not look at the evidence, and they told her she could stay on scholarship but that they would not be firing Feldman.

Marrochello, who in March was named the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics’ AD of the Year — has not responded to Globe inquiries.

The end of Part 1 of the documentary shows Cooper returning to Nickerson Field for the first time since graduating. In a video message posted on Tuesday, Cooper expressed her anxiety over sharing her story.

“I wasn’t sure I wanted to get into what happened to me in college in this documentary,” she said. “I figured let’s keep it light, let’s keep it fun, let’s just approach it with a more positive energy.”

But the filmmakers, she said, encouraged her to visit BU and see how she felt.

“The minute I stepped on that field, I felt so small,” she said. “Money, power, status, followers, years of therapy — none of it mattered. I felt like I was 18 years old again, completely powerless, no voice. And the minute I saw Nickerson Field, I broke down and I started sobbing. I didn’t realize how much I had suppressed, and how much I was still carrying with me.”

Cooper buried her story because it was painful, she said. She was embarrassed. She was afraid of retaliation. She feared people would downplay her trauma because the abuse was not physical. She felt shame that she — who has created a media empire centered around female empowerment — was abused by a woman. Coming forward, she worried, could undermine her message.

What compelled Cooper to speak up, she said, was “that other women had stepped onto that field and experienced the same harassment I did. I discovered that the abuse and trauma I had been subjected to at Boston University was still actively happening on that campus in 2025, a decade after I left.”