Nov 10, 2026 · 1h 27m
Sophia Franklyn revisits the Call Her Daddy breakup
Sofia Franklyn Has Daddy issues
Franklyn’s memoir reframes a defining podcast-industry rupture through the contract dispute, public fallout, and identity she rebuilt afterward.
- 1Franklyn says six years of distance helped her write about the breakup without anger or revenge driving the story.
- 2She describes how friendship, business negotiations, and competing accounts of Unwell’s origins shaped the partnership’s collapse.
- 3The memoir marks Franklyn’s shift from chasing Call Her Daddy’s success toward pursuing a separate creative and personal future.
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Franklyn describes learning that Alex had moved forward with a deal without her, the moment she understood the partnership had ended.
The brief
Amanda Hirsch speaks with Sophia Franklyn about Daddy Issues, the memoir she waited six years to write while creating enough distance to tell the story honestly.
Franklyn traces the path from Utah and finance to meeting Alex Cooper, joining Barstool Sports, and discovering that Call Her Daddy depended on two distinct storytelling strengths.
The central rupture involves friendship and business: contract negotiations, the disputed origins of Unwell, and Alex’s decision to pursue a deal without her partner.
Franklyn recalls being cast publicly as greedy or controlled by Peter, while describing Call Her Daddy’s funeral-style coverage as part of a broader public-relations battle.
By the end, Franklyn frames Daddy Issues as both a record of the fallout and a declaration that she can stop competing with Alex and build her own future.
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