Sofia Franklyn's Memoir 'Daddy Issues' Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Drama of 'Call Her Daddy'

Will SayreThu, February 26, 2026 at 12:37 AM UTC

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Call Her Daddy remains ever-popular in the podcast realm, with recent guests including Hilary Duff amid her pop-star comeback.

Alex Cooper hosts the series, though fans will recall it was founded by Sofia Franklyn as well. And if they ever wanted to hear what happened between the two from the former co-host's perspective, fret not because Franklyn has a new book coming.

On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Simon & Schuster announced it will publish Daddy Issues, an "unflinching" memoir from the Call Her Daddy co-founder and current host of Sofia with an F. The publisher describes it as "an explosive story of power, friendship, reclamation, and surviving yourself," which will hit the shelves on Nov. 10.

"For so long I wished my story wasn’t mine. But it is and I now see the power in that," Franklyn wrote in the caption of her Instagram post on Wednesday in celebrating her book's upcoming release. "This memoir is about the life that made me before anyone knew my name, and I’m doing it in ink."

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Fans took to the comments section of Franklyn's post to show their support for her new project. "Super excited to finally hear your side!!" wrote one Instagram user, while another person commented, "The way I pre ordered so fast - hope you are so unbelievably proud of yourself😭😭❤️❤️❤️."

Call Her Daddy became a phenomenon overnight, evolving into a cultural force and transforming its hosts into avatars of a moment and then into targets, Simon & Schuster noted in its Wednesday press release. But at the height of the show’s early success, the relationship between Franklyn and Cooper, 31, seemed to implode.

"My story has only been told for me. And if you asked me to write this book five years ago you would have gotten a different story—fearful, vengeful, insecure, wounded with something to prove," Franklyn said in a statement, per the publisher. "I couldn’t live truthfully until I told it in my own words, on my own terms, and in the most radically honest way I know how."

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