‘I don’t mingle with famous people. I don’t, it’s just not my world’
After being ostracized by her Hollywood peers and losing acting jobs for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Sopranos star Drea de Matteo says walking away from Hollywood was easy because she “never played the celebrity game.”
The Emmy-winning actress, who lost work over her refusal to get the COVID jab, said she didn’t want to join the site but added that she was out of options after the bank threatened to take her home.
“It saved us,” she admitted. “OnlyFans saved my life, 100%. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but it really did save us.”
De Matteo decided to join OnlyFans as a way to help re-establish her financial footing.
For $15 per month, subscribers get access to uncensored shots of the mother of two who played Adriana, the girlfriend of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher Moltisanti, for six seasons on The Sopranos.
“I wasn’t going to sit around and wait for my manager or for somebody to try and land me a job that I needed to get in order to take care of what needed to be taken care of. I was losing my home,” she said.
The cash she earned from OnlyFans has also allowed de Matteo to expand her business interests into fashion, with her newly launched ULTRAFREE brand and a new jewelry collection.
She continued by saying Gandolfini was “a hard worker.”
“Did he blow off some steam? Sure, he did. I think we all know how to blow off some steam. But to capitalize on that, to tell a story about The Sopranos, to make him look like Tony Soprano, this man was nothing like Tony Soprano. Nothing. And, you know, because he was such an incredible actor, he lived in that headspace.”