Sofia Franklyn Reveals Why She Waited 6 Years After Alex Cooper Feud to Release Book Detailing Their Rift
Sofia Franklyn Reveals Why She Waited 6 Years After Alex Cooper Feud to Release Book Detailing Their Rift
Luke ChinmanTue, March 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM UTC
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Sofia Franklyn and Alex CooperCredit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Mike Coppola/Getty -
Sofia Franklyn revealed more details about her forthcoming book, Daddy Issues
The memoir will explore her years co-hosting the earliest iteration of the hit podcast Call Her Daddy and her subsequent falling out with Alex Cooper, who started hosting the podcast on her own in May 2020
“I wasn’t ready until now to tell the story in a way that was going to be as honest and as truthful and as real and as ego-removed as I possibly could,” Franklyn told her fans about why she waited six years to address the feud
Sofia Franklyn is revealing more details about her forthcoming book.
In a YouTube video the internet personality, 33, posted on Thursday, Feb. 26, she shared the backstory behind her new memoir, Daddy Issues, which will explore her years co-hosting the earliest iteration of the hit podcast Call Her Daddy and her subsequent falling out with Alex Cooper, who started hosting the podcast on her own in May 2020.
In the 29-minute video, the content creator addressed questions she anticipated about why it had taken six years for her to release a book about her rift with Cooper, 31.
“I wasn’t ready until now to tell the story in a way that was going to be as honest and as truthful and as real and as ego-removed as I possibly could,” she explained. “Also, I wasn’t going to tell the story in a TikTok. I wasn’t going to tell the story in a one-hour YouTube. And the only way that I was going to tell this story was in a book.”
Sofia FranklynCredit: Sofia with an F/YouTube
In her video, she went on to say that she “needed to grow up” before putting pen to paper.
“I needed to self-reflect. I needed to get real and raw and honest with what happened. I had to discern what was real and what was fake," she added.
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Franklyn also said that she thought her audience was “smarter now” and could understand the “nuance” of the situation.
Last year, Cooper shared her side of the feud in Call Her Alex, a docuseries for Hulu.
The media mogul recalled in the series that their hit podcast — which focused on sex and dating advice when it initially launched in 2018 — was making "millions of dollars" for its original distributor, Barstool Sports. Cooper said that she and Franklyn went to meet with Barstool founder and CEO Dave Portnoy, who offered them the opportunity to own the podcast's IP if they stayed with Barstool for another year.
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"Sofia didn't want to take the deal, but I did, so I stayed," Cooper alleged in her Hulu special. "I realized the 'Daddy Gang' was bigger than both of us."
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