ALEX COOPER has broken records with her Call Her Daddy podcast since former co-host and best friend Sofia Franklyn left in 2020.
But following their three-year long feud, the podcaster has finally opened up about what really happened between the pair.
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What happened between Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn?
In November 2023, Alex admitted that she hasn't spoken to Sofia since her former co-star left the podcast three years ago.
The Call Her Daddy star has opened up about the lasting feud with her old co-star, revealing that it was deeper than anyone realized.
On May 27, 2020, Alex announced thatSofia departedCall Her Daddy.
Sofia parted ways with Call Her Daddy after she and Alex became involved in a dispute with thepodcast's former distributor Barstool Sports.
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Barstool ownerDave Portnoysaid that he had offered the co-hosts a $500,000 annual salary, bonuses, and six months off of their initial three-year contract, but Sofia wasn't happy with the deal, according toHITC.
The influence of Sofia's then-boyfriendPeterNelson on her agreements to potential deals also contributed to the fallout between the two co-founders.
When did Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn start the Call Her Daddy podcast?
Alex founded the Call Her Daddy podcast with Sofia in 2018, when the pair were roommates.
The podcast rapidly increased in popularity, with downloads rising from 12,000 to 2 million in two months
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Approximately one month after its first episode aired, Barstool Sports acquired the rights to stream the podcast.
For years, Call Her Daddy was synonymous with sex and known for raunchy talk and coining concepts, keeping with the program's original "female locker-room talk" ethos.
Since Sofia's exit, the podcast has evolved and expanded to cover a wide range of topics and caters to a broader demographic.
In 2021, Alex signed a three-year deal with Spotify to stream the podcast on their platform - making it the streaming platform's biggest exclusive deal for a female-led podcast ever.
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What has Alex Cooper said about the fallout?
In an interview with Barstool Sports, Alex delved into the status of her relationship with Sofia.
In a clip posted on X (formerly Twitter), Alex revealed that she never spoke to Sofia again after she left the podcast in 2018.
When asked if she would reply to Sofia is she reached out, Alex said: "I don't think she would ever reach out, I don't know if there's anything to say. I think it's kind of done.
"Someone said this the other day which kind of hit me, I've now been doing the show on my own longer than we did it together.
"So that's kid of like… it feels so far away, and I know you guys probably feel that way with business stuff, when you're in a new era, all I can think about is 'this is my baby' and I'm producing it and I'm trying to make it the biggest.
"So it feels like so long ago that that happened that I don't think about it."
Looking shocked by the influencer's answer, she was asked: "Do you think if it didn't blow up the way it did it would have…"
Before the question could be asked in full, Alex responded: "I think it was gonna end regardless.
"We had personal conversations, like this s*** was so bad behind the scenes it was gonna end."
Where is Sofia Franklyn now?
Sofia started her own individual podcast titled Sofia with an F just a few months after leaving the Call Her Daddy podcast.
However, in May 2021, Sofia lost advertisers for the podcast following a foul-mouthed attack on a former Disney star who didn't respond to her message.
As a result of her outburst, one of the tagged advertisem*nts in the podcast, BetterHelp, ended its relationship with Sofia.
That's according to The Daily Beast, who also revealed that clothing subscription service StitchFix is also no longer advertising with the podcast, nor will it ever work with Sofia again.
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While she didn’t name the woman directly, Sofia gave so many identifying details that fans figured out that she was talking about Mollee Gray.
The 32-year-old eventually heard the podcast and described it on her TikTok account as “very vulgar, very hurtful and pretty offensive.”
