Call Her Daddy co-founder Sofia Franklyn reveals she felt 'worthless' after leaving the podcast

Call Her Daddy co-founder Sofia Franklyn has opened up about feeling ‘worthless’ after leaving the podcast.

Franklyn co-created the popular podcast with Alex Cooper back in 2018 and it quickly went on to achieve huge success.

“Right away, my day-to-day financial stress evaporated,” Franklyn told Business Insider in a new interview.

“I was able to put money into a savings account for the first time.”

Franklyn explained that prior to the podcast, she’d been earning around $52,000 so the switch to suddenly earning a lot more felt ‘freeing… very comfortable and safe’.

Sofia Franklyn has spoken out about leaving the podcast (John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)

However, in 2020, Frankly was embroiled in a public fallout with Cooper and she left Call Her Daddy after ‘contract negotiations fell apart’.

“Within days, my job, my identity, and my income were completely gone,” she revealed.

“My relationship with Alex was too.”

Opening up about the ‘massive change’, Franklyn said she was left numb and unsure who to trust, but knew that she had to try and move on with her career and her life.

“It was an interesting experience negotiating my worth at a time when I felt worthless,” she shared.

That same year, Franklyn launched her Sofia with an F podcast and is gearing up to launch her memoir Daddy Issues.

The upcoming book will take a look at Franklyn’s time as co-host on Call Her Daddy and the subsequent fallout.

She announced the memoir back in May on her YouTube channel, explaining why she had waited so long to share the story.

“I wasn’t ready until now to tell the story in a way that was going to be as honest and as truthful and as real and as ego-removed as I possibly could,” she said.

She said she was left feeling 'worthless' (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Ophelia Eve Jewelry)

“Also, I wasn’t going to tell the story in a TikTok. I wasn’t going to tell the story in a one-hour YouTube. And the only way that I was going to tell this story was in a book.”

Cooper shared her side of things in the 2025 Hulu documentary Call Her Alex.

In the series, Cooper revealed that the podcast had been making millions for its original distributor Barstool Sports, and were offered a deal by Dave Portnoy to own the podcast’s intellectual property if they agreed to stay with Barstool for another year.

Cooper said while she was happy to take the deal, Franklyn was not.

"Sofia didn't want to take the deal, but I did, so I stayed," she claimed.