Sofia Franklyn’s Memoir “Daddy Issues”: The 6 Biggest Bombshells

Luke ChinmanTue, November 10, 2026 at 5:10 AM UTC

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Sofia Franklyn; ‘Daddy Issues’Credit: Heidi Gutman/Disney via Getty; Simon & Schuster -

Sofia Franklyn has released her debut memoir, Daddy Issues

In the book, Franklyn chronicles her rise to fame, the launch of Call Her Daddy and her viral falling out with co-host Alex Cooper

These are the six biggest bombshells from the memoir

Sofia Franklyn is telling all.

Six years after her infamous exit from Call Her Daddy — the sex and relationships podcast she cofounded with Alex Cooper, making the two internet sensations — Franklyn, 34, has chronicled her side of the story in her debut memoir, Daddy Issues, out Tuesday, Nov. 10.

In the book, Franklyn recounts her upbringing in Utah raised by a single mother, her tumultuous years in high school and college and her eventual move to New York City. There, she started a job she hated at Morgan Stanley before meeting Cooper, 32. They then became roommates, fast friends and the ‘It’ girl co-hosts of their chart-topping podcast.

But everything came crashing down in 2020, when contract negotiations with their podcast distributor, Barstool Sports, led to Franklyn’s exit from Call Her Daddy. And now, Franklyn is sharing her side of the story.

Here are the biggest bombshells from Daddy Issues.

Sofia Franklyn in New York City on Oct. 9, 2024Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/GettyFranklyn was arrested three times in college

In Daddy Issues, Franklyn is unafraid to admit that her early years were riddled with drugs and alcohol, leading to several encounters with law enforcement. She writes about three arrests: once when her fake ID was denied at a bar, another when she was caught underage drinking at a DJ set and a third when “so blackout” she “can’t remember what happened.”

Following one of her arrests — during which she was held in custody for 48 hours — Franklyn says she returned to her shift at a sushi restaurant to discover that her mugshot had been printed on a stack of papers at her work. That mugshot would later be printed on merchandise for Call Her Daddy.

Sofia Franklyn in New York City on June 21, 2022Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/GettyFranklyn was date-raped by a promoter shortly after her move to N.Y.C.

A few months after she moved to N.Y.C., she reconnected with a promoter she knew from Utah over Instagram, Franklyn writes in the memoir. The pair met for a drink at a hotel bar, but after he gave her cocaine, she claims, “everything goes black.”

Franklyn says that she woke up in a hotel room alone without her phone or any money, and when she used the bathroom, realized her underwear was inside out — an indication that she was date-raped. She eventually flagged a cab to get back to her aunt’s apartment, where she was staying at the time, and dashed out of the vehicle before paying.

Sofia Franklyn in September 2024; and Alex Cooper in October 2025Credit: John Nacion/Variety via Getty; Cindy Ord/GettyAlex Cooper once allegedly asked Franklyn to covertly take a photo of her out to dinner with a baseball player that was later leaked online

Franklyn first met Cooper while she was in an on-again, off-again relationship with MLB star Noah Syndergaard, who was playing for the New York Mets at the time.

On one occasion while the two were broken up, Franklyn claims Cooper asked her to secretly snap a photo of her out to dinner with Syndergaard, 34. “He’s just such a s--t, and I want to have them in case I need to send them to his mom,” Franklyn alleges Cooper told her.

After Franklyn successfully snapped the covert picture and shared it with Cooper, Franklyn says it appeared on the sports gossip site Busted Coverage (matching an article from January 2018 in which an anonymous “tipster” sent in the photo). In the memoir, Franklyn implies that it was Cooper who submitted the image, writing, “Who has access to this photo besides me and her??”

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Sofia Franklyn via InstagramCredit: Sofia Franklyn/InstagramFranklyn’s mom was appalled by the early episodes of Call Her Daddy

After Franklyn and Cooper released the first few episodes of their podcast, Franklyn’s mom called her “in a panic,” she writes in the memoir.

“You need to delete it right now,” Franklyn says her mom told her. And when Franklyn refused, her mom responded that she needed to “block everyone.”

Sofia Franklyn in June 2022; and Alex Cooper in October 2023Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Mike Coppola/GettyCall Her Daddy‘s famous “Gluck Gluck 9000” joke was allegedly lifted from Black Twitter

In Daddy Issues, Franklyn describes one of Cooper’s friends — introduced to their Call Her Daddy audience as “Milfhunter” but identified by Franklyn in the memoir as Muji — who played an integral role in crafting several of their jokes.

Franklyn claims that Muji once told her he was responsible for writing the “Gluck Gluck 9000” joke — an oral sex technique Cooper coined on the third episode of Call Her Daddy — and that he had “basically pulled it fully from Black Twitter.”

“Despite him ripping content from internet subcultures I’m not a part of, I love having Muji on board,” writes Franklyn. “He’s funny as s--t in a way we’re not.”

Sofia Franklyn on the ‘Get Real’ podcast on Sept. 17, 2026Credit: Heidi Gutman/Disney via GettyFranklyn auditioned for Summer House as she was reeling from her Call Her Daddy exit

In the aftermath of her professional breakup from Cooper, Franklyn auditioned for Bravo’s Summer House, she writes in the memoir, noting that she found a “moment of healing.”

“On a call with one of the producers, she tells me to write ‘I love you’ on a Post-it note and hang it on my bathroom mirror,” Franklyn writes, adding that the producer told her to read back the words out loud every time she saw it. “Is it bad she knows I need this?? I take it seriously and add one of my own. Everything you need is within you. I rip them both down a week later when I have a boy over.”

Franklyn further opened up about her auditioning process on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Nov. 4, where she said that she made it to the final round. “I would say that was a miss on their part not to cast you,” Cohen, 58, told her.

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Sofia Franklyn’s Daddy Issues (from Simon & Schuster) is now available wherever books are sold.

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