Six years after cutting ties with Alex Cooper and the "Call Her Daddy" podcast they created together, Sofia Franklyn is telling her side of the story in her new memoir, Daddy Issues .

"It was not a redemption. It wasn't revenge. It was very much just needing to tell my story because I was kind of frozen in time, like I was frozen as that girl from six years ago," Franklyn tells Marie Claire editor-in-chief Nikki Ogunnaike on the latest episode of "Nice Talk." (Their conversation was recorded at a launch event for Franklyn's book at The Strand in New York City.)

In case you're out of the loop: Franklyn and Cooper were close friends and roommates who created the podcast together in 2018. It became very popular, very quickly, and in 2020, the co-hosts had a falling out related to contract negotiations for the highly lucrative podcast. Cooper still hosts the show today and has her own media company.…