Sofia Franklyn Wants to Be Out of the ‘Barstool Box’

Sofia Franklyn is sharing her facet of the tale after Alex Cooper rehashed their drama on her contemporary docuseries.

“You all know my past. Thank u for being a part of my journey…this year is about letting MYSELF out of the Chd/Barstool Box & being my grown, complex self,” Franklyn, 32, wrote by means of her Instagram Story on Tuesday, June 9. “Less scared, less performative. More present & vulnerable.”

Alongside the message, Franklyn shared a hyperlink to her contemporary podcast episode the place she spread out concerning the public’s misconceptions.

“I think the internet sees me as one way, which I love and is a part of me,” Franklyn stated at the Thursday, June 5, episode of the “Sofia With a F” podcast. “There’s always going to be the ‘Call Her Daddy,’ Barstool, thing, right? Sexual, ditzy, which I mean I am those things. I can be sexual and ditzy and smart at the same time, you know? But also I think, after the drama, I had this really hard exterior because I was so scared.”

Franklyn mirrored that she “became a different person,” which has “translated” into how she items herself to the arena. “I’m still kind of trying to crawl out of that, but I think in order to do that, I should be really open about it,” she stated.

Franklyn rose to reputation in 2018 when she began the “Call Her Daddy” podcast along Cooper, now 30. The pair have since parted techniques, which Cooper spread out about at the first episode of Call Her Alex, which premiered by means of Hulu on Tuesday, June 10.

“It became really difficult to enjoy the process,” Cooper stated at the episode. “It was the classic you think you see something online, and people genuinely believed we were like sisters, but our relationship was so awful.”

After Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy reached out, the duo signed a three-year care for the corporate. Two years later, Portnoy heard rumors that the display used to be being shopped to different networks.

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“I absolutely deserved more money, but unfortunately, we had signed a three-year contract with Barstool Sports, and they owned our IP,” Cooper stated in her docuseries, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, subsidized via FIJI Water. “Sofia and I went in together and we renegotiated our contacts. Dave ended up offering us what I considered the deal of a lifetime.”

Cooper alleged within the docuseries that Portnoy presented her and Franklyn $500,000 and possession of the display.

“He said, ‘If you stay at Barstool for one more year, you can own Call Her Daddy.’ Sofia didn’t want to take the deal but I did. So I stayed,” Cooper stated. “I realized the Daddy Gang was bigger than both of us. When I was going out on my own, I had to look inward and figure out where I wanted to take the show. I’ve never done a podcast where I have to talk for an hour by myself.”

Portnoy, for his phase, made an look within the docuseries and printed “they were helping pay a lot of the salaries at Barstool.”

After Cooper exited Barstool, she signed an unique care for Spotify and went directly to signal a $125 million care for SiriusXM in August 2024.