Call her desperate?
Sofia Franklyn accused Alex Cooper of staging paparazzi photos with her ex-boyfriend Noah Syndergaard to trap him.
In her new bombshell memoir, “Daddy Issues,” Franklyn recalls her former “Call Her Daddy” co-host’s on-again, off-again relationship with the MLB star, who was playing for the New York Mets at the time.
During one of Cooper’s breaks from the athlete, he invited her to dinner and she figured he was going to ask her to be his girlfriend again.
While the podcaster was getting ready for the date, she allegedly asked Franklyn, who was her roommate in New York City at the time, to get a picture of the couple at the restaurant.
Franklyn misunderstood at first, and thought Cooper wanted her to meet up with them, but soon figured out that her then-friend wanted “paparazzi-type s–t.”
“He’s just such a s–t, and I want to have them in case I need to send them to his mom,” she allegedly pleaded with Franklyn, who agreed to the plot.
After successfully getting the snap of the pair, Sofia writes that the photo ended up on a “Z-list sports coverage site that covers women linked to semi-famous athletes,” matching an article from January 2018 in which an anonymous “tipster” sent in the pic.
However, Franklyn writes that she didn’t leak the photo and no one else had access to it besides her and Cooper.
Page Six has reached out to Cooper’s rep for comment. Cooper has not commented on Franklyn’s book.
Franklyn’s new tell-all, which hit bookshelves Tuesday, details her infamous 2020 exit from “Call Her Daddy,” the sex and relationships podcast she cofounded with Cooper, who has solo hosted it ever since.
The former besties’ contentious contract negotiations with podcast distributor Barstool Sports and its founder, Dave Portnoy, publicly played out in the media at the time, but now she shares her side of the story.
Earlier this month, Page Six Hollywood exclusively reported that Cooper — who is now married to film producer Matt Kaplan and welcomed her first child last month — was “freaking out” over the book’s release and was trying to get her hands on it before publication.
Sources said that Simon & Schuster had the novel under Fort Knox-level lock and key and only a few people got advance copies.
“She’s in full-on panic mode,” said a source who got and advanced a copy of “Daddy Issues” and was approached by Cooper.
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