American actress Drea De Matteo, who won an Emmy Award for her role in The Sopranos, says OnlyFans helped her pay off her mortgage when she opened an account on the adult platform, after which the bank wanted to repossess his house, Variety magazine reported. .

“He saved us. OnlyFans saved my life 100%. I can’t say that I say it, but it really saved us,” she said in an interview with The Daily Mail. De Matteo has two children with American singer and music producer Shooter Jennings, with whom the relationship lasted for more than 10 years.

“Whoever wants to condemn and humiliate me, let him go. I just hope you never find yourself in the position I was in, taking care of two young children. [Contul de OnlyFans] it saved my home that I had for many years and it was very important to us. And to top it all off, it made me enough money to fund Ultrafree as well,” she added.

Ultrafree is a clothing brand created and owned by de Matteo. She also told British reporters that she only had $10 in her bank account before opening the OnlyFans account last August.

“I got foreclosed on and my house flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly. I wanted to try to sell it before the bank took it from me,” said the American actress, explaining that at the same time she lost her mother after losing her Manhattan apartment of 22 years to a gas line in 2015. an explosion that completely destroyed 3 buildings.

“I didn’t know how to get out,” she said, but said that within “five minutes” of opening her OnlyFans account, she had already made enough money to pay the company that foreclosed on her house.

“The Sopranos” brought the American actress an Emmy Award.

De Matteo, 52, won an Emmy for best supporting actress for her role in The Soprano Clan. She was part of the main cast of the series, playing the role of Adriana La Serva in 56 episodes of the series that aired on HBO between 1999 and 2007.

The Soprano Clan remains to this day one of the most popular series in HBO history and is considered by many specialists to be one of the most influential series in television history.

De Matteo later starred in such series as Sons of Anarchy and Desperate Housewives but her career took a nosedive in the 2010s. She says she found herself in huge debt and on the verge of losing her home after refusing to get a coronavirus vaccination during the pandemic, which left her unable to find work.

Drea DeMatteo Says Hollywood Sees Her As ‘Savage’

In an interview with Fox News last year, she also suggested that Hollywood rejected her after she publicly spoke out against mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus.

“I didn’t know that it would be a sudden change in life at a time when I should relax a little, that I would have to change my career and think about new things because my own industry considers me wild,” the actress said.

In that interview, she also said that “people find it hard to believe that I’ve never been paid that much for the roles I’ve played.”

“People think I’m made of goddamn gold, but I’m not. I worked from role to role. And I’ve turned down a lot of roles in the past just to be with my kids because their dad is on tour a lot and he’s not around that often,” she added.