In a new Hulu docuseries, aptly titled Call Her Alex, the Call Her Daddy host details her rise to podcast super stardom, and looks back on the moments that got her there, including one alleged incident she says rocked her college years.
"I felt a lot of anger—anger at my coach, anger at my school, and anger at the system that allowed this to happen," Cooper says in the film. "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."
"It was confusing because the focus wasn't like, 'You're doing so well. Let's get you on the field. You're going to be a starter.' It was all based in her wanting to know who I was dating, her making comments about my body, and her always wanting to be alone with me," she adds.
But the internet personality says she felt trapped: "I was attending BU on a full-tuition scholarship. If I didn't follow this woman's rules, I was gone."
"Every time I tried to resist her, she would say, 'There could be consequences,'" Cooper recalls. "And there were."
"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," she claims.
"This is clearly a case of sexual harassment," Cooper's mom, Laurie Cooper, recalls being told by lawyers, who also warned the family that the case could "drag on for years" and that it "will be your life."
"I want to play my senior year. I want to finish out what I worked my entire life for, but I can't play for this woman," she says she told them. "They said, 'We're not gonna fire her, but you can keep your entire scholarship and that's that.' No investigation. Within five minutes, they had entirely dismissed everything I had been through."
The alleged harassment was a pivotal moment for Cooper, not only in her life as a college student and young athlete, but one that would shape the trajectory of her career, with the incident helping serve as inspiration for her getting behind the mic.
Parade has reached out to Boston University for comment.
Call Her Alex begins streaming on Hulu June 10.
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