In 2020, Sofia left the hit podcast, which she co-hosted with Alex Cooper, after reportedly not agreeing to a 50/50 deal with Barstool Sports‘ Dave Portnoy.
“Sofia did not take the deal and when it got held up and there were no more points coming from her side, we had to move forward without her,” Alex said in a May 2020 episode of the podcast, now owned by Spotify. “That’s all it is. Everyone realized she’s never gonna be happy. There were more and more points and then eventually, she stopped sending points and then she never sent her points. She said she wanted it. She never signed it.”
But while Alex said that the reason had to do with negotiations, Sofia shared that she left due to feelings of betrayal.
“Everything that we had been working toward and planning for the last half a year to year was all of a sudden not the plan anymore and [Cooper thought] we needed to just stay with this company and do what [Portnoy] was saying,” Sofia told Rolling Stone in an article published in July 2020. “I found out later [Cooper and Portnoy] 1,000 percent had this relationship that I wasn’t aware of and not a part of.”
