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“The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo just lately told DailyMail.com that she saved her home from going into foreclosures because of OnlyFans, which she turned to final yr after her performing profession stalled. She launched an account in August that followers might subscribe to for $15 monthly.
“It saved us,” de Matteo mentioned. “OnlyFans saved my life, one hundred pc. I can’t imagine I’m saying that, but it surely actually did save us. Anyone that wishes to sentence me and put me down, go for it. I simply hope you by no means end up within the place I used to be in to handle two little children. It saved my house of a few years that was essential to us. And past all that, it has given me sufficient cash to begin up and finance Ultrafree.”
Ultrafree is a streetwear model that de Matteo began and owns. She mentioned that previous to launching her OnlyFans account, she solely had round $10 in her checking account. That quantity may stun followers contemplating de Matteo is an Emmy-winning actress and a veteran of “The Sopranos,” one of the crucial acclaimed and well-liked TV collection of all time.
“They put me into foreclosures and my home had flooded, so I used to be attempting to promote the home shortly. I needed to attempt to promote it earlier than they took it,” de Matteo continued. “On the identical time, I misplaced my mother, and my different mother, who has dementia, had run out of cash for her caregiver. I didn’t know which means was up.”
She mentioned that inside “5 minutes” of her beginning her OnlyFans account she made sufficient cash to “pay again Compass actual property, who stored the sale of my home.”
“I did it, however I didn’t need to do it,’ she admitted of becoming a member of OnlyFans. “I obtained a variety of warmth for doing it.”
Chatting with Fox News Digital final yr, de Matteo defined that pivoting to OnlyFans got here because of dropping performing work during the last couple of years as a consequence of her stance in opposition to COVID vaccine mandates.
“I do know some individuals have mentioned some nasty issues about me having joined OnlyFans,” de Matteo mentioned on the time. “I figured, ‘OK, so all people’s of their underwear and being horny on Instagram and I don’t do this, however I can do this and receives a commission for it’ … I don’t know why I didn’t consider this sooner.”
In line with de Matteo, she was pressured to “change careers and determine new issues out as a result of my very own business thinks I’m a savage” as a consequence of her beliefs in opposition to COVID vaccine mandates. She added, “I assume you can say I used to be a foul woman as a result of I didn’t observe the principles a few years in the past.”
De Matteo mentioned her views resulted in her agent dropping her.
“Folks discover that tough to imagine that I used to be by no means actually paid very a lot cash for any of the roles I’ve finished,” de Matteo mentioned. “Folks assume I’m fucking fabricated from gold, and I’m not. I’ve labored job to job. And I’ve turned down tons of jobs previously simply to be with my kids as a result of their dad’s on the highway, and he’s not round as a lot.”
“I simply don’t care. I don’t. I’d relatively save my household than save face,” she added, noting that her daughters gave their blessings for her to launch an OnlyFans account.
