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Where Is Alex Cooper Now? Mormon Parents And Real Life Story Update Today

Author

James Bradley

Published Feb 14, 2026

The Trapped girl Alex Cooper now lives with her girlfriend in Portland, Oregon. She is currently working for the Human Rights Campaign after her horrific experience with conversion therapy.

In Victorville, California, 15-year-old Alex Cooper comes out to her Mormon parents as a lesbian.

She has fallen for her friend Frankie, and this leads her parents to take her to Utah to live with the Simms who Alex’s grandparents.

Johnny and Tiana abuse her for being a lesbian; they also beat and punish her.

They obliged her to wear a backpack full of rocks while facing the wall as a way to get her to become straight.

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Where Is Alex Cooper Now?

After so many years of cultural struggle, Alex Cooper lives life in abundance with love.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her girlfriend.

The life story of Alex Cooper is captured in the movie Trapped as she confronts her parents being gay at the age of 15.

She was then forced to take a harsh conversion therapy program.

People wondered if the film was based on a true story.

It turns out that the film is loosely based on the true story of Alex Cooper.

Furthermore, It is heavily influenced by her memoir, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen, I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began.

Alex initially announced to her Mormon parents that she was in love with a girl at 15 years old.

That’s when her nightmare began, as the title of her memoir suggests.

Alex’s religious parents were fearful that she would be doomed for eternity.

They sent her to Utah to a house where Johnny and Tiara Sims used various measures.

The methods included physical abuse in the hope of making her straight.

Where Are Mormon Parents Today- What Happened To Johnny and Tiara Sims?

Alex Cooper has forgiven her Mormon parents.

However, she always remembers the torture given by Johnny and Tiara Sims in the event to make her straight.

Sims were introduced to Alex’s parents by her grandparents.

Her grandparents were in the same ward as the Simms in Mormon Church.

Cooper’s grandparents were aware that they were using conversion therapy and approached them after her parents came to the Church.

Sims took strange joy in abusing and torturing children, including their own.

Cooper doesn’t blame her parents for what happened, but she entirely blames Simms.

Sims were compelled to stop so-called conversion therapy.

They lost their job at residential treatment institutions in southern Utah.