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‘Call Her Daddy Host’ Sofia Franklyn Reveals She Hasn’t Recovered from Podcast Drama

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By MLC on June 17, 2021 at 3:07 PM PDT

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Sofia Franklyn, formerly one-half of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, is speaking out about the effects the fall-out from the show has had on her.

Back in 2018, Barstool Sports obtained the rights to a little podcast called, “Call Her Daddy.”

The podcast was run by two mid-twenties hosts, Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn.

They discussed their past 'sexcapades', one-night-stands, sex, sugar daddies, and more sex while navigating life in crappy New York City apartments on a strict diet of vodka sodas and frozen pizza.

Fans of the show loved the chemistry between the show hosts and how in-depth they’d go into their personal lives.

Cooper and Franklyn lived, ate, slept, and worked together. They were truly inseparable.

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The podcast quickly blew up, and the ‘CHD’ hosts had become celebrities in their own right.

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As the show grew, so did egos, paychecks and job requirements of the hosts, which would prove to be detrimental to the show.

In April/May 2020 ‘CHD’ came to a crashing halt.

The “Daddy gang” as fans of the show are called noticed no episodes were being released between April and May, and the Instagram page of ‘CHD’ began posting cryptic messages hinting that something was NOT right.

Fast forward to May 17th and a message was published that read, “We are always 100% transparent with the Daddy Gang but legally we can’t speak out yet. What we will say is… We will never f***ing leave you Daddy Gang. The minute we can speak we will. #FreeTheFathers.”

Then, things took a turn for the worst.

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Cooper and Franklyn were in heated debates with Barstool Sports owner, David Portnoy, over contracts and salaries.

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Cooper agreed to the new stipulations of her contract and salary, while Franklyn opposed the new deal. This eventually led to Franklyn leaving the show, brand and Barstool all together.

Cooper would go on to host the show solo and make the podcast entirely her own.

Franklyn was made to look like the bad guy in the situation and was basically disowned by the “Daddy Gang.”

Undeterred, she started and released her own podcast, “Sofia with an F,” in October 2020.

She recently made an appearance on the “No Jumper” podcast to discuss the severe impact the public drama and fall-out had on her mental health.

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