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“The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo recently told DailyMail.com who saved her house from foreclosure thanks to Onlyfans, which she turned to last year after her acting career stalled. She launched an account in August that fans could subscribe to for $15 a month.
“He saved us,” de Matteo said. “OnlyFans saved my life, 100 percent. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but he really saved us. Anyone who wants to condemn and belittle me, let them do so. I just hope you never find yourself in the position I was in of caring for two small children. It saved my home of many years which was very important to us. And beyond all that, it has given me enough money to start and fund Ultrafree.”
Ultrafree is an urban clothing brand that De Matteo started and owns. He said that before launching his Onlyfans account, he only had about $10 in his bank account. That number might surprise fans considering De Matteo is an Emmy-winning actress and a veteran of “The Sopranos,” one of the most acclaimed and popular television series of all time.
“I was put into foreclosure and my house had flooded, so I was trying to sell it quickly. I wanted to try to sell it before they took it,” de Matteo continued. At the same time, I lost my mother and my other mother, who has dementia, had run out of money for her caregiver. I didn’t know which direction was up.
She said that within “five minutes” of opening her OnlyFans account, she made enough money to “pay back Compass Real Estate, who took the sale of my house.”
“I did it, but I didn’t want to do it,” she admitted about joining Onlyfans. “I got a lot of criticism for doing it and it went fucking viral and people went crazy.”
speaking to Fox News Digital Last year, de Matteo explained that the move to Onlyfans came as a result of losing work as an actress in recent years due to her stance against COVID vaccine mandates.
“I know some people have said nasty things about me joining Onlyfans,” de Matteo said at the time. “But, you know, the way we see it in this house is that mom is a warrior, who doesn’t accept defeat… I thought, ‘Okay, so everyone’s in their underwear and they’re sexy on Instagram and I’m not I do that, but I can do it.'” do that and you’ll get paid for it’… I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before.”
According to de Matteo, she was forced to “change careers and discover new things because my own industry thinks I’m a savage” due to her beliefs against COVID vaccine mandates. She added: “I guess you could say she was a bad girl because I didn’t follow the rules a couple of years ago.”
De Matteo said her opinions caused her agent to abandon her.
“People find it hard to believe that I have never been paid a lot of money for any of the work I have done,” de Matteo said. “People think I’m made of gold, and I’m not. I have worked from job to job. And I’ve turned down tons of jobs in the past just to be with my kids because their dad is traveling and not around as much.”
“I just don’t care. No. I’d rather save my family than save appearances,” she added, noting that her daughters gave her their blessing to launch an Onlyfans account.