Alex Cooper awkwardly grilled on Dave Portnoy's bombshell take on her Barstool Sports exit
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Key Points:
- Alex Cooper, host of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, was questioned about Dave Portnoy’s claim that she planned to use fake sexual harassment allegations to break her Barstool Sports contract, which she denied and declined to elaborate on.
- Cooper acknowledged her complicated relationship with Portnoy, who gave her her start in the industry, but said they have different versions of the story and she prefers to avoid drama, focusing instead on business.
- In his memoir “Cancel Me If You Can,” Portnoy alleges that Cooper and her former co-host Sofia Franklyn intended to fake sexual harassment claims to exit their contract, despite Portnoy offering a lucrative deal that would have made them millionaires.
- Portnoy claims he was warned by Cooper that Franklyn would not accept the deal, and that their plan involved using false harassment accusations if they couldn’t take the podcast to another network without legal consequences.
- Sofia Franklyn left the podcast in 2020 after contract disputes and is set to discuss her split with Cooper in her upcoming memoir, “Daddy Issues.”
