Alex Cooper Recollects Parting Methods with Name Her Daddy Co-Host Sofia Franklyn

Alex Cooper is opening up concerning the early days of Name Her Daddy.

The media mogul, 30, regarded again on the beginnings of her wildly profitable podcast in her Call Her Alex docuseries on Hulu, in addition to the rumored rift between her and her former co-host Sofia Franklyn.

“Once I was informed, ‘Your present is probably the most listened to indicate on this planet for podcasting by girls,’ I am like, ‘Nicely that’s most likely the best assertion ever,'” stated Cooper within the docuseries, including, “But it surely turned actually troublesome to benefit from the course of.”

Of her dynamic with Franklyn, she defined, “It was the basic, ‘You suppose you see one thing on-line and other people genuinely consider you are like sisters, however our relationship was so terrible.'”

The previous co-hosts’ friendship started to unravel, as detailed within the Hulu docuseries that premieres on June 10. Their intentions for the podcast differed, which she says in the end led to Franklyn parting methods.

“Sofia and I had been making the corporate hundreds of thousands of {dollars},” recalls Cooper of Call Her Daddy‘s start, which initially targeted on intercourse and relationship recommendation when she first launched it with Franklyn in 2018.

Dave Portnoy, Barstool founder and CEO, revealed within the doc, “To be sincere, they had been serving to pay a variety of the salaries at Barstool.”

“We completely deserved extra money,” Cooper stated within the episode, explaining, “However sadly, we had signed a three-year contract with Barstool Sports activities and so they owned our IP, so Sofia and I went in collectively and we renegotiated our contract.”

Earlier within the episode, Portnoy stated that he initially provided the co-hosts a three-year contract with Barstool value “70 grand” in 2018. Finally, as their success grew, Portnoy wound up providing them what Cooper “thought-about a deal of a lifetime.”

“He stated, ‘In the event you keep at Barstool for yet another 12 months, you’ll be able to personal Name Her Daddy. Sofia did not need to take the deal, however I did, so I stayed,” she alleged.

Of her closing choice, Cooper concluded, “I spotted the ‘Daddy Gang’ was larger than each of us.”

PEOPLE reached out to Franklyn for touch upon the matter however hasn’t instantly heard again.

In October 2024, Cooper inked a $125M deal with SiriusXM. She was requested by The Hollywood Reporter if Frankyln got here to thoughts whereas signing it — and in that case, what that thought was on the time.

“I believe much less concerning the particular particular person,” she informed the outlet on the time.

“The thought is: I’m so pleased that I trusted myself and fought for this IP,” Cooper continued. “As a result of I’ll always remember the day Dave Portnoy provided us that IP on a rooftop and I used to be so elated and being like, ‘I’ll keep one other 12 months. I’ll do no matter it takes. I need that IP.'”

In July 2023, Franklyn — who has since launched her personal podcast, Sofia with an F — opened as much as Rolling Stone about her choice to depart Name Her Daddy, and the drama that ensued instantly after.

“When all the things went down, I really was silent. That’s what I wished,” she informed the outlet. “However individuals with opposing views had been so vocal on so many alternative platforms that had been so ginormous, and I believe even after I got here again and sort of spoke my piece, there have been items lacking. I couldn’t go there.”

She added, “It was my selection to remain silent however in a roundabout method, I used to be slightly bit silenced. I’ve by no means thought of that, however I believe that was positively there.”

Elsewhere in her interview with Rolling Stone, Franklyn elaborated on how Cooper taking the cope with Barstool affected her friendship with Cooper.

She defined, “I believed [Cooper was my] finest pal, sister, and we aren’t hiding something. There’s no method in hell I’d converse to our boss with out you, that will be f—— loopy, and I don’t suppose that went each methods.”

Franklyn additionally informed the outlet that there have been different points and particulars in Barstool’s deal that didn’t sit proper together with her. 

“Getting the IP again would’ve been nice, however I’m not going to throw all the things else out the f—— window,” she stated.