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Alix Earle is finally sharing her side of the story about what led to her ongoing drama with Alex Cooper.
In season 1 of Alix’s reality show Earle Meets World — where she pulls back the curtain on life with her family, the influencer alleged that she felt “betrayed” by Alex.
“I just get scared because everyone tells me not to fight with her,” Alix explained while talking with dad Thomas “TJ” Earle. “Because they always win and they always come out on top. She even said to me, ‘You don’t want to go to war with me.’”
For the uninitiated, Alix previously launched her “Hot Mess” podcast under Alex’s Unwell Network in 2023. Two years later, however, the partnership came to an end when the podcast was dropped.
While speculation swirled about tension between Alix and Alex, the Dancing With the Stars season 34 runner-up reignited feud rumors when she reposted a TikTok calling the “Call her Daddy” podcast host the “Grim Reaper.” Alex, for her part, directly addressed Alix in a TikTok and asked her to publicly share what their “beef is.” Alix simply replied, “OK on it!!” and had yet to further detail their falling out — until now.
“I know no matter what I’ll say, people will have a problem with this. She’s probably going to have a problem with this and attack me after or twist and manipulate whatever she wants to say about me. That’s scary. That’s where I’m like, ‘Should I be doing this?’ But I know what I’m signing myself up for,” Alix said.
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Alix Earle Found Out She Wasn’t Working With Unwell Through the Media
Alix explained that she feels “scared” of Alex, claiming that she found out her “Hot Mess” podcast was dropped by the Unwell Network through the media.
“I’m just intimidated,” Alix said. “I don’t know what she’s going to do or how she’s going to twist things. I always hope that karma or something would do its thing one day and, um, karma’s taking awhile.”
Alix Earle Claims Both ‘Personality’ and ‘Work Things’ Went ‘Wrong’ With Alex Cooper Relationship
While having a conversation with her family in Earle Meets World, Alix claimed that there was “thing after thing” when they were working together — noting that Unwell Network was a startup company at the time so things inherently weren’t going to be smooth.
“There [were] just constantly issues. It just wasn’t run properly. It wasn’t what I was promised or told it was going to be like working with them,” Alix said, while TJ chimed in to add, “One of the primary reasons that we ultimately ended up going with Unwell for Alix’s podcast was one, because she looked up to Alex Cooper and two, Alex Cooper would be able to mentor Alix in the business, in the podcasting business. And show her how to put together a show and give her all the resources to produce and develop a great show.”
He claimed, “We knew what they promised us and then when they came in way below what they promised us, we were kind of like, ‘I guess this is how you produce a podcast.’ You sit on your bed with a camera that they sent you and you film it yourself. There’s no production crew, there’s nothing. … We come to find out, because Alix has other friends that do podcasts, that they are actually given real resources to produce a show. They have a producer. They have people that are helping them film and set up lighting and things like that. Alix had none of that, she was doing all of this by herself. Traveling around with suitcases full of cameras and then setting ‘em all up by herself.”
TJ explained that the expenses were taken out of the show’s revenue, with the leftover profit being split between Alix and Unwell.
“So there was no expenses because they had Alix doing everything,” TJ said, while Alix interjected to claim she got the cold shoulder, “I don’t even care about the money or the contracts … Then once we worked with them again — because I felt pressured into signing with them again, so I did — they said, ‘OK, hire your own people for the show. We are taking everyone off.’ They didn’t invite me to events. They didn’t talk to me. They didn’t come up to meetings anymore. I’m like, ‘Why am I paying you to do something I’m not even happy doing and you’re not even giving me any support and I feel scared of you?’”
She continued, “There’s like personality, and then there’s like work things. And both things went wrong. For example, from the start, I didn’t realize things were going wrong because I was obsessed with her. I was like, ‘This is my idol. I’m so happy to work with her.’ And then constantly felt taken advantage of and used and mistreated and manipulated.”
Alix Earle Claims Alex Cooper ‘Took Advantage’ Of Her ‘Admiration’
Alix recalled appearing as a guest on Alex’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast and feeling “so excited,” before her emotions shifted.
“She sold me on a dream that she was going to protect me and look out for me and I feel like she took advantage of my admiration of her and she used that to her advantage,” Alix alleged.
In a separate scene, Alix claimed that Alex began asking her questions on the podcast that were “really sexual” after the pair had been drinking.
“I’m imagining myself in her shoes. To take someone in college, who is young and impressionable, you know looks up to you. And then ask them these raunchy questions which I was definitely a little bit comfortable with,” Alix said in a confessional, as clips from the podcast began playing. “Part of that was stuff I had asked to be taken out after the interview. And she was like, ‘Oh I think it’s so funny.’ And it’s stuff that I didn’t necessarily want to live on the internet forever. So that definitely hurt me. Or, it hurts now. In the moment, I just was like, ‘She’s looking out for me.’”
While talking with her family about the falling out, Alix became emotional as she noted that the “things [Alex] put out there [is] stuff [she] can never take back.”
“My kids are going to see that and it took a toll on all of us,” Alix said. “After that interview when we talked about our family experience, I cried to her. I was like, ‘Thanks this meant so much to me. I really looked up to you and I’m so happy I got to share this story.’ It just makes me feel like a f***ing loser. I was so excited and happy and I thought I was doing something so good and I did something so hurtful to all of us.”
In a separate confessional, Alix’s stepmom, Ashley Dupré, shared that she felt like she “lost my spark” after the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that discussed her affair. (Ashley previously made national news in 2008 after having relations with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer before having an affair with TJ while he was married to Alix and Ashtin Earle’s mom, Alisa Earle.)
Alix Earle Claims Alex Cooper Reached Out to College Friend to ‘Get Dirt’
In a separate scene, Alix claimed that Alex reached out to her college friend to “get dirt” on the content creator.
“Someone that I’m friends with told me that Alex Cooper DM’d her the other day asking to get on the phone to talk about me,” Alix told her mom, while footage from four days prior played. “Alex Cooper DM’d [censored], asking to get on the phone and talk to her. … Reaching out to someone I went to college with to try and get dirt on me?”
Earle Meets World is streaming on Netflix now.
