“The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo not too long ago advised DailyMail.com that she saved her home from going into foreclosures because of OnlyFans, which she turned to final 12 months after her appearing profession stalled. She launched an account in August that followers might subscribe to for $15 a month.

“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 start out up and finance Ultrafree.”

Ultrafree is a streetwear model that de Matteo began and owns. She mentioned that previous to launching her OnlyFans accoun, she solely had round $10 in her checking account. That quantity would possibly stun followers contemplating de Matteo is an Emmy-winning actress and a veteran of “The Sopranos,” one of the acclaimed and fashionable TV sequence of all time.

“They put me into foreclosures and my home had flooded, so I used to be making an attempt to promote the home shortly. I wished to attempt to promote it earlier than they took it,” de Matteo continued. On the similar 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 wish to do it,’ she admitted of becoming a member of OnlyFans. ‘I received numerous warmth for doing it and it went f*cking viral and folks went nuts.”

Chatting with Fox Information Digital final 12 months, de Matteo defined that pivoting to OnlyFans got here because of shedding appearing work during the last couple of years because of her stance in opposition to COVID vaccine mandates.

“I do know some folks have mentioned some nasty issues about me having joined OnlyFans,” de Matteo mentioned on the time. “However, you realize, the way in which we see it on this home is mommy’s a warrior, not accepting defeat…I figured, ‘OK, so all people’s of their underwear and being attractive on Instagram and I don’t try this, however I can try 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 compelled to “change careers and determine new issues out as a result of my very own trade thinks I’m a savage” because of her beliefs in opposition to COVID vaccine mandates. She added, “I assume you can say I used to be a nasty woman as a result of I didn’t comply with 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 completed,” 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 up to now simply to be with my youngsters as a result of their dad’s on the street, and he’s not round as a lot.”

“I simply don’t care. I don’t. I’d slightly save my household than save face,” she added, noting that her daughters gave their blessings for her to launch an OnlyFans account.