despite his years the Sopranos, Drea Di Matteo had two children, a mother suffering from dementia, a flooded house, a large unpaid mortgage bill and $10 in the bank when she decided to post erotic photos on the subscription site OnlyFans. The effect was immediate.
“I was like, holy shit,” the actress recalled in a recent interview. “In five minutes, I was able to pay Compass Real Estate who was holding up the sale of my home.”
Di Matteo has spoken out about the decision before, citing his loss of work and problems paying his mortgage because of his vaccine stance, but never fully explaining why. What financial bind was she in?
“They put me in foreclosure and my house was flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly. “I wanted to try to sell it before I took it,” the actress told the Daily Mail. “At the same time, I lost my mother, and my other mother, who suffers from dementia, lost her caregivers. The money had run out. I didn’t know which way was up.”
Leading the membership site allowed her to support her two children and even finance her own streetwear brand, Ultrafree.
“It saved us. OnlyFans 100 percent saved my life,” she told the newspaper. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it really saved us.”
Di Matteo played Adriana in the first five seasons. the Sopranos, After Adriana becomes an informant for the FBI, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) orders her killed. Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) murdered her in one memorable episode, but De Matteo returned for two episodes in season 6. He won an Emmy for this role in 2004.
after the SopranosDe Matteo appeared in shows such as desperate Housewives And sons of Anarchyamong others.
But this did not give her financial freedom throughout her life, the actress revealed.
“People think I’m made of gold, but I’m not,” she said last year. “I’ve worked job after job.”
As far as other people’s judgment of his work on OnlyFans is concerned, De Matteo is pragmatic.
“I do not care. Not me. “I would rather save my family than save my face.”
