Read Sofia Franklyn’s Memoir ‘Daddy Issues’: Key Claims on Cooper
Sofia Franklyn, co-creator of the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” released her 240-page memoir “Daddy Issues” on November 10, 2026. It gives her account of the split with Alex Cooper, including claims about a pay gap, a holiday party and a friend fired without warning.
Sofia Franklyn, co-creator of the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” released her 240-page memoir “Daddy Issues” on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, giving her account of her falling-out with Alex Cooper. Those who read Sofia Franklyn’s memoir get a three-part story: her childhood, her years with Cooper, and the breakup.
The two women shot to viral fame in 2018, when the podcast was still under Barstool Sports. It became known for candid talk about subjects women rarely discussed in public, including raunchy sex stories.
They split professionally in 2020. Cooper went on to host solo and moved the show to Spotify, then to SiriusXM, in lucrative deals. Franklyn, who has more than 619,000 Instagram followers, launched her own podcast, “Sofia with an F.”
From Utah to New York
The first section covers Franklyn’s upbringing in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her single mother, who had her at 20 after a one-night stand. Franklyn writes that she was arrested three times, once for using a fake ID and twice for underage drinking.
She moved to New York City, largely to escape an abusive relationship. Her early days were hard, she writes. She worked at Morgan Stanley under a boss she says harassed her regularly, and she felt extremely lonely.
A woman she met in a ride-share connected her to Cooper and Cooper’s childhood friend Lauren, who were looking for a third roommate. Franklyn and Cooper became inseparable.
Warnings and a holiday party
Franklyn writes that Lauren once asked her whether it seemed strange that Cooper had “tossed” her aside. Lauren also told her Cooper “uses you because you’re hot, to like, go to parties and stuff.” Franklyn says she felt defensive of the friendship at the time.
Another childhood friend of Cooper’s, known to early listeners as “Milfhunter,” also warned her. Franklyn identifies him as Muji Fricke and says he worked on the podcast and told her Cooper “doesn’t have friends.” After Cooper abruptly fired him, Franklyn says, he told her: “She’s gonna f--- you.”
At Barstool, the pair took creative control of the show with founder Dave Portnoy’s blessing. Things shifted after the company holiday party, Franklyn writes. She felt “insane anxiety,” drank heavily and fought with Cooper.
An angry Cooper told her she had been “rude” and “aggressive” and that everyone, including Portnoy, wanted to fire her, Franklyn writes. She says she later learned Cooper had used the party to negotiate a raise. Muji purportedly told her Cooper said, “If I have to put up with her, I need more money.” According to Franklyn, the raise left Cooper earning $20,000 more a year than she did.
Claims about the show’s jokes
Franklyn says Muji was on the podcast’s payroll for a short time and fed Cooper some of her best-known bits, including the viral “Gluck Gluck 3000” joke. She writes that his ideas became central to Cooper’s on-air persona, and says his involvement was largely unknown until now.
When Franklyn announced the book in February, her agent received a call from Matt Kaplan, Cooper’s husband and business partner, allegedly screaming on the other end, she recounts in the foreword. She also says Cooper’s Unwell Network, a name she says she came up with herself for merchandise years earlier, is blocked on her social media.
Franklyn, who splits her time between New York and Italy with her husband, is in New York for a month of press. Revisiting the period was painful, she said. “I found myself sobbing at parts that I thought I was so completely healed over.” She has no plans to retreat from the attention this time: “I’m in such a different place than I was six years ago.”
