Sofia Franklyn Is Releasing a Memoir About Her “Call Her Daddy” Exit and Falling Out with Alex Cooper
Sofia Franklyn Is Releasing a Memoir About Her “Call Her Daddy” Exit and Falling Out with Alex Cooper
Zoey LyttleWed, February 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM UTC
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Alex Cooper; Sofia Franklyn.Credit: Christopher Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty;John Nacion/Variety/Getty -
On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Sofia Franklyn announced that she is releasing a memoir titled Daddy Issues, which is set to come out on Nov. 10
The book will reveal details about Franklyn's exit from co-hosting the Call Her Daddy podcast and the end of her friendship with Alex Cooper
The book's cover shows an image of Franklyn posing beside a blonde woman whose face and body are cut out of the photo
Sofia Franklyn is telling all in her upcoming memoir.
On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Simon & Schuster announced the news that Franklyn's memoir, Daddy Issues, is set to release on Nov. 10. According to a press release, the book reveals new details about her time co-hosting the earliest iteration of Call Her Daddy, which Alex Cooper started hosting on her own in May 2020.
The Sofia with an F podcaster, 33, also opens up about her falling out with Cooper, 31, and how the end of their friendship led to her to becoming the "villain in the internet’s messiest breakup," per the book announcement.
Cover of Sofia Franklyn's memoir, 'Daddy Issues.'Credit: Simon & Schuster
“My story has only been told for me. And if you asked me to write this book five years ago you would have gotten a different story—fearful, vengeful, insecure, wounded with something to prove," said Franklyn in the release. "I couldn’t live truthfully until I told it in my own words, on my own terms, and in the most radically honest way I know how."
The cover of Franklyn's book shows a picture of her next to a woman who was cut out of the photo; her only identifying feature is blonde hair. The author told Rolling Stone, "We played with the idea of using a picture of me from childhood to emphasize the way my story is deeper than what the internet knows, but that didn’t feel right."
She added, “I needed the cover to tell a story beyond the title Daddy Issues. It’s jarring, and it’s meant to be. Think of a book like The Social Network, but it’s all hot girls.”
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Last year, Cooper discussed her side of the fallout in her Call Her Alex docuseries on Hulu. As she recalled it, the hit podcast — which focused on sex and dating advice when it was initially launched in 2018 — was making "millions of dollars" for Barstool Sports, the original distributor of Call Her Daddy.
In the interest of making more money for themselves, Cooper said she and Franklyn went to meet with Barstool founder and CEO Dave Portnoy. He offered them the opportunity to own their 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, which premiered in June 2025. Of her final decision, she concluded, "I realized the 'Daddy Gang' was bigger than both of us."
Franklyn did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on the matter at the time of the docuseries' release.
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