The Sopranos’ Drea De Matteo says OnlyFans ‘saved my life’

Drea De Matteo’s OnlyFans account has become an unexpected saving grace.

Despite her initial hesitation in joining the adult membership platform, the Sopranos The 52-year-old star shared how she has got a new lease on life after the service saved her from the brink of financial ruin.

After losing his acting job and his bank account dwindling, Mateo decided to take up OnlyFans, and – within five minutes of joining – he’d earned a life-saving amount of money.

“They put me in foreclosure and my house flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly. I wanted to try to sell it before they took it,” she recalled to the Daily Mail. Was.” “At the same time, I lost my mother, and my other mother, who suffers from dementia, ran out of money to pay for her caregiver. I didn’t know which way to go.”

The actress kept uploading more photos to the site and in “five minutes” she made enough money to pay back her real estate company, allowing the sale of her home to continue.

He added, “It saved us. OnlyFans 100 percent saved my life.” “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it really saved us. Anyone who wants to slander me and put me down, do so. I just hope you yourself Never be in the position I was in, having to take care of two young children.”

Matteo joins stars like Cardi B, Denise Richards, Bella Thorne, and Tyler Posey who have found success when joining OnlyFans. However, Matteo initially “didn’t want to do it” and he “got a lot of heat for doing it and it went viral and people went crazy.”

Matteo and her husband, Robbie Stabler, originally planned to create a podcast on the platform and put out sexy content behind a paywall. He added, “Originally it was going to be the same, you know, like him rubbing my feet because you’ve got to add something there just for the fans.”

Now, Mateo enjoys watching her adult content and she “feels good” looking at her photos.

“For the most part I look good, and the best thing about it is that I get heavier. If I’m skinny I don’t look good in photos. Before photo shoots, I get to eat and eat .I gain weight to look better,” she said, before revealing her “carb loading” diet.

“I’m just an Italian woman in the world, eating spaghetti and pasta and steak,” she said.

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Matteo is best known for her role as Adriana La Cerva the Sopranosfor which she earned an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2004. She has also appeared in shows like a small coin, sons of Anarchy, desperate Housewives And blue patterns,