Sofia Franklyn has said she fears her new memoir could be discredited by people featured in it, including her former podcast co-host Alex Cooper and Cooper’s husband, Matt Kaplan.
Franklyn, 34, discussed the concerns during an episode of The Bossticks podcast as her memoir, “Daddy Issues”, is released on Tuesday.
She said she had heard that “some main characters in my book” were working to undermine her account, adding: “I heard as soon as, literally, as early as, like, yesterday.”
Sofia Franklyn fears her family could become ‘collateral’
Franklyn specifically named Cooper and Kaplan when discussing how she believed they might respond to the book.
“I’m talking about Alex and Matt. Hi. If you’re listening, hi,” she said. “How dirty are they gonna play it? Are they gonna, like, go after people I love? That I do not like.”
She said the possibility of her family or husband being drawn into the dispute had unsettled her.
“If my family, if my husband, becomes collateral, that actually scares me, and I thought I was gonna go into this process being like two middle fingers in the air,” Franklyn said. “That surprised me.”
Franklyn also said she believed attempts to discredit her would be more difficult because people had become more familiar with the way media, public relations and headlines worked.
She suggested that an aggressive effort could involve contacting former college roommates, previous colleagues or people with only limited knowledge of her, before attempting to use their comments against her.
Franklyn and Cooper co-hosted their podcast when it began in 2018, having previously been close friends and roommates. Franklyn left the show in 2020 amid a contract dispute, after which Cooper became the sole host and later signed a reported 60 million dollar deal with Spotify to move the podcast there.
