Sofia Franklyn Questions Whether Her Friendship With Alex Cooper Was Ever Real

Sofia Franklyn is looking back at the painful split that ended her partnership with Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast, and she says the fallout left her questioning what their friendship had really meant. In a conversation about the breakup, Franklyn wondered aloud whether the bond had ever been genuine, while allowing that the two women may have understood friendship differently. “I question, was the friendship ever real?” Franklyn said. She added that perhaps it had been real to Cooper in the way Cooper understood friendships, but described the situation as complicated. Franklyn also said the pair never had the full conversation she wanted after their professional relationship unraveled, leaving questions unresolved. The dispute centered on the future of Call Her Daddy and the circumstances around a deal made while the two were still working together. Franklyn recalled feeling that Cooper had made an agreement behind her back. She said she asked whether she could take the show herself, but remembered being told to work it out between them. In her account, events moved rapidly, and Cooper was already preparing to record when Franklyn was still trying to process what was happening. Franklyn said the shock was intensified by her view of Cooper as her best friend. She was particularly upset, she explained, by what followed: Cooper continued with the podcast without her, and Franklyn recalled two episodes that she felt were devoted to her public humiliation. A person speaking with her characterized those installments as an attempt to “kill” her; Franklyn agreed with that description in the exchange. The interview offers Franklyn’s perspective on a split that became a widely discussed podcast-industry dispute. Her comments make clear that, even years later, she is still weighing both the business decisions and the personal hurt—and still wondering whether the friendship she believed she had was ever shared in the same way.