Podcast giant Alex CooperA better football player at the school who went to Boston University for a full scholarship, described what she claimed was three years of sexual harassment at the climbing of her coach, Nancy Feldman, who, according to her, finished with her leaving the team’s last year.
The allegations encountered audible dressings in the public at the end 1 of a new Hulu documentary series Calls him Alex,, which has just been presented at the Tribeca festival. In a Q&R later, Cooper said that it had taken her ten years to come forward, which she made largely because of the documentary, a look behind the scenes on the first live show of her successful podcast Calls his daddy. The first step was in Boston. Director Ry Russo-Young asked him to go out on the BU football field and think about what it meant for her.
“And at the minute when I fell back on the ground, I felt so small. I felt like I was still 18 years old. And I was in a situation with someone in a position of power that abused their power. And I felt like I was not the Calls his daddy girl. I was not someone who had money and influence or anything. I was only another woman who experienced harassment at a level that changed my life forever and removed the thing that I liked the most, “she said during a after.
She chose to make herself public to help herself to heal and because she claims that it is always a problem in college.
Feldman retired in 2022. University officials who, according to Cooper, claim that his allegations are still there, she said. In the doc, she alleys that the officials asked her, “What do you want?” But that said they were not going to dismiss Feldman, did not investigate, but said that she could keep her football purse.
The deadline contacted the University of Boston to comment.
“During the filming of this documentary, I discovered that harassment and abuse of power always take place on the campus of the University of Boston, and I spoke to one of the victims, and hearing his story was horrible, and I knew at that time, if I do not talk about it. It will continue to happen,” said Cooper.
“I think of the amount of women who have probably experienced this, not only on this campus, but on a larger scale in the workplace. This does not only happen on university campuses for football. It’s everywhere. It is systemic. And so I knew it was time to speak and I was terrified, and I’m still terrified, ”she said.
It also hurt Cooper that her alleged harasser was a woman, she said.
In the documentary, she claims a model that started the second year in the second year when the coach was focusing more and more on her personally, not on her game, with questions and comments about her body and her romantic life. She said that Feldman would try to pass her on her own, to put a hand on her thigh, to look at her and asked once if she had had sex in the previous night.
“It was this psychotic game of” you want to play, tell me about your sex life “,” said Cooper in the doc. When she tried to resist, she said, Feldman threatened with “consequences”. She accused the coach of retalling on the field by often putting her in place, including mostly a key championship match, at the confusion of her teammates.
Hulu will release a trailer last week. He launched on June 10.
Cooper alluded to university trauma in the past.
She initially launched the Podcast of advice and comedy Calls his daddy In 2018, alongside her then the co-host Sofia Franklyn, with Barstool Sports before signing an agreement, which was worth around 60 million dollars, with Spotify in 2021. The show exploded with women and only became second ahead The Joe Rogan experience On the graphics of the front podcast She moved to Siriusxm last year In an agreement valued at around $ 120 million.
“I think that a lot of this process almost made me realize that if I have finances to pay for a lawyer and that I have the resources to do all these things, how will another woman feel comfortable to present me?” A decade, said Cooper tonight.
“I actually think that this is only the beginning. It really opened my eyes to the difficulty of the system, and it is so constructed against us as women, and we have to fight so hard for our voice to be heard, and we are refused, or we are questioned, or you feel ashamed, and who started to really make my head, how I do not do work in the document? Inspire other people to manifest themselves and tell their stories, because the conversation is the only way we really will change and we are going to change. »»
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