As the world continues to wait for influencer Alix Earle‘s response to podcaster Alex Cooper‘s callout, Dakota Johnson might have just predicted the beef between them.
Last year, when the actress participated in the Vanity Fair lie detector test, Johnson was tested to see if she recognized some social media personalities since she claims not to be online.
The Materialists actress was first shown a photo of Earle, to which she replied, “Is that a person on a TV show? Oh, is it Call Her Daddy?” Johnson was then given a photo of Cooper and asked, “Are they not the same person?” Likely because the two women do look quite similar, both being white women with long blonde hair.
The interviewer clarified to Johnson that Cooper was actually the host of the Call Her Daddy podcast. The Splitsville actress was also shocked to learn that both women have the same first name, just with different spellings.
“They’re both named Alex? And they both do podcasts?” a confused Johnson asked (Earle also hosts the Hot Mess podcast), before blurting out a round of questions: “Are they friends? Are they enemies? Is there beef?”
While the interviewer didn’t have answers to most of her questions, she did joke at the time that there “could be” beef between Cooper and Earle.
“Oh, shit. About their podcasts? Do they talk about the same things? What’s going on?” Johnson replied. “Should I be friends with them? They look like nice people.”
There’s no way to know for certain if the Fifty Shades of Grey alum manifested their feud, but she clearly picked up on some tension between them.
Though Earle left Cooper’s Unwell Network months before Johnson chimed in during her Vanity Fair lie detector test in June 2025, nothing was ever confirmed on what went down between the two women and why Earle parted ways with Cooper’s company in March 2025. Earle had launched her Hot Mess podcast under Unwell, but took it with her when she left.
Rumors about a squabble between them have swirled over the past year, but the drama really peaked over the weekend when Cooper took to TikTok to directly accuse Earle of starting “fake drama” and creating a “fake narrative” over what went down between them.
“Hey girl, the passive aggressive reposts and the likes and the commenting on things — I’ve got to call you out here,” Cooper said in the video. “You’re going to need to get specific and just say what you’ve got to say about me. There’s no NDA. No one is stopping you. Stop hiding behind other people and just say it yourself.”
She was seemingly addressing a TikTok video that Earle had reposted days prior of another creator calling the Call Her Daddy host “so awful” for telling people’s stories when they’re at their lowest.
Earle hasn’t dropped her response yet, but she did reply in the comment section of Cooper’s TikTok, “Okay on it.”
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