Amy Sussman // Getty Images The day has finally come. Sofia “With an F” Frankyln’s tell-all memoir, Daddy Issues , is on shelves now, which means a bunch of details from her infamous fallout with her former Call Her Daddy co-host and best friend, Alex Cooper, are coming to light. Seriously—there’s so much tea in these pages, it even prompted Alix Earle to pick up a copy and apparently read a book for the first time. (Her words, not mine!)
Aside from her reported feud with Alex, Sofia unveiled other shocking details from her personal life throughout the memoir. Here are the six biggest bombshells from Sofia Franklyn’s memoir, Daddy Issues .
Sofia truly wasted no time. In the prologue to her memoir, she revealed Alex’s husband, Matt Kaplan, allegedly called her book agent the day she announced Daddy Issues and threatened to take legal action. It was the first time she had (sort of) been contacted by Alex since their infamous fallout in 2020.
“I remember this feeling of powerlessness. Alex rearranging my life with no acknowledgment. My life being taken, overnight. On the scoreboard of Alex vs. Sofia, Alex won. I cannot fathom her trying to do it again,” Sofia wrote in her memoir. “I feel bulletproof… something born out of a dark place. For the first time I have something Alex wants. Our story. My story.”
Sofia admitted to her tumultuous journey with drugs and alcohol over the years, which eventually led to her multiple arrests. One of her mugshots was even printed on Call Her Daddy merch in June 2020.
She got arrested three separate times while she was in college. In one instance, her fake ID was denied at a bar. She was arrested again when she was caught underage drinking at a DJ set, and a third time when she got “so blackout [drunk]” she “can’t remember what happened.”
Before she married Matt in 2024, Alex was romantically linked to MLB player Noah Syndergaard. They had an on-again, off-again relationship in 2017, and Sofia claimed Alex had been plotting to get back at him when he attempted to reconcile with her over dinner.
“I have a favor to ask,” Alex said, per Sofia’s recollection. “Okay, we’re going to Lure Fishbar and I want you to get a picture.”
“Like, paparazzi-type shit?” Sofia asked, to which Alex allegedly responded, “He’s just such a shit, and I want to have them in case I need to send them to his mom.”
Sofia revealed the photo she took eventually ran in a January 2018 report from Busted Coverage , alleging Alex submitted the tip herself. “Who has access to this photo besides me and her??” she wrote.
According to the “anonymous” tip, Alex was described as “the smoking hot former Boston U soccer player who we’ve met and posted about multiple times.”
When CHD became one of the most popular pods in the biz, the former co-hosts pushed the company to renegotiate their 3-year contract early, asking for $1 million per year in a new contract.
At the time, Barstool maintained the intellectual property of CHD , which was also the main reason Alex and Sofia’s friendship and professional partnership ended. As the girls tried to figure out next steps, they nearly left the company and started their own show called The Fathers .
After Sofia drank heavily at the Barstool holiday party, she claimed she woke up the next morning with little to no recollection of the night before—but she knew she had done something “very wrong.”
When she asked Alex about it, the Unwell founder claimed her behavior was “rude” and “aggressive,” to the point that Dave Portnoy almost “fired” her. Sofia later learned that Alex attempted to use her alleged party fouls as leverage to get a promotion.
“She was like, ‘If I have to put up with her, I need more money,’” Alex’s friend and former CHD employee, Muji, reportedly told Sofia. “So she got the raise.”
In case you need a rundown, here’s what happened: Alex continued CHD under Barstool in 2021, after Sofia wanted to leave and start another podcast. Months after Sofia was left to her own devices, Barstool’s founder, Dave Portnoy, reportedly offered her a solo show.
“She came to me with a plan, and I needed an episode. There’s no clear favorite. You could always have your own show, and we promote the shit out of it like we did with Call Her Daddy. I think it would be huge,” Dave said, according to Sofia. She also claimed Alex had told Dave that she was “never going to sign” the Barstool contract because she was “trying to blow up the deal.”
Sofia never ended up taking his offer and started her own podcast, Sofia With an F , independently in October 2020.
As for Alex, she eventually left Barstool and took CHD with her, signing a $60 million deal with Spotify. She signed another $125 million deal with SiriusXM in 2024.
Dave and Alex have yet to respond to any of Sofia’s allegations in her memoir, if at all.
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