Alix Earle Claims Both ‘Personality’ and ‘Work Things’ Went ‘Wrong’ With Alex Cooper Relationship

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.”