Despite year hears on The Sopranos, Drea Matteo had two kids, a mother with dementia, a flooded house, a massive unpaid mortgage bill and $10 in the bank when she decided to post racy photos on the subscription site OnlyFans.
The impact was immediate. “I was like, holy sh*t,” recalled the actress in a recent interview. “In five minutes, I was able to pay back Compass real estate who kept the sale of my house.” De Matteo has spoken of the decision before, citing a loss of work due to her vaccine stance and issues paying her mortgage, but never fully revealed the extent of the financial bind that she was in. “They put me into foreclosure and my house had flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly.
I wanted to try and sell it before they took it,” the actress told the Daily Mail. “At the same time, I lost my mom, and my other mom, who has dementia, had run out of money for her caregiver.
I didn’t know which way was up.” The move to the subscription site allowed her to support her two kids and even finance her own streetwear brand, Ultrafree. “It saved us.
Read more on deadline.com