After signing a $125 million deal with SiriusXM, Newtown native and hit podcaster Alex Cooper surprised her parents with a new home in Los Angeles, writes Zoey Lyttle for People.

During a Christmas Day installment of her popular Call Her Daddy podcast, Cooper recalled the  “emotional moment” when she and her husband, Matt Kaplan, first mentioned the idea to her mom and dad.

“To be able to go to my parents this past summer … and be like, ‘I want to buy you guys a house and I want to do this for you,” she said.

The discussion made the entire family cry and it made the podcaster reflect on how her parents supported her soccer dreams from childhood to her athletic college scholarship.

“My mom and dad sacrificed every single f—ing day hauling me to different counties and getting on flights and taking me to soccer tournaments and taking me to private training sessions and taking me everywhere I wanted to go,” she said. “It all led me to be able to do what I love for a living, and I literally wouldn’t be here without them.”

Read more about Alex Cooper’s decision to buy her parents a house in Los Angeles in People.

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