‘Sopranos’ star Drea de Matteo, 52, credits OnlyFans for paying off mortgage ‘in 5 minutes’
Sometimes you do what you gotta do.
“The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo claims she paid off her mortgage debt in “five minutes” on OnlyFans after her refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine left her jobless and with $10 to her name.
The 52-year-old spoke to the Daily Mail about reluctantly joining the adult subscription service last year, but growing to enjoy the 18+ subscription site when she quickly raked in money.
“They put me into foreclosure and my house had flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly,” she explained in the interview published Tuesday. “I wanted to try and sell it before they took it.”
She added, “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.”
That’s when she turned to OnlyFans, which she said, “Saved my life, 100%.”
“I kept putting more pictures up,” De Matteo recalled. “I was like, holy s–t. In five minutes, I was able to pay back Compass Real Estate who kept the sale of my house.
“I did it, but I didn’t want to do it,” she went on. “I got a lot of heat for doing it and it went f–king viral and people went nuts.”
The “Desperate Housewives” alum thought of starting an OnlyFans after she and her husband, Michael Devin, toyed around with the idea of creating a quasi-podcast.
“I mean, the original premise to open the OnlyFans was Robbie and I were gonna do a podcast on there that was controversial,” she explained. “We wanted to put it behind a paywall so to not be destroyed in the media for it.
“That was what it was going to be originally, you know, like with him rubbing my feet because you have to add a little something for OnlyFans in there.”
To her surprise, de Matteo loved putting out content — and plans to keep posting.
“It feels good to see those photos,” she said. “They might be touched up here and there but the truth is they videotape me going live when we do the photo shoot so fans can see the photo shoot happening in real time.”
The “Sons of Anarchy” alum has also cracked the code when it comes to looking her best in her content. She bulks up to “look better,” which involves “carb loading” and indulging in “spaghetti and pasta and steak.”
“You want your boobs to be big and your butt to be big,” she mused. “Otherwise, the photos are a snooze fest.”
