Drea de Matteo credit OnlyFans with saving her from her money owed

Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo has praised OnlyFans for ‘saving her life’ after her refusal to have the COVID vaccine price her performing gigs and left her with simply $10 in her checking account. 

While Drea, 52, was initially reluctant to be a part of the grownup subscription service final 12 months, she has now revealed her racy uploads proved so profitable that she paid off her mortgage money owed inside 5 minutes – and has even launched her personal enterprise.

The actress, who has been carb-loading to get in form for the cash pictures, additionally revealed how, in addition to almost shedding her home, she had run out of cash to help a guardian with dementia.

‘It saved us,’ she instructed DailyMail.com completely. ‘OnlyFans saved my life, 100 per cent. I am unable to imagine I’m saying that, nevertheless it actually did save us.’ 

Tearing up, she continued: ‘Anybody that desires 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 deal with two little children.

‘It saved my residence 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.’

Drea had simply $10 in her checking account when she began her OnlyFans account.

She had discovered herself in a deadly monetary scenario after taking a forbearance to assist together with her mortgage repayments, however finally could not afford the astronomical sum that she owed collectors.

‘They put me into foreclosures and my home had flooded, so I used to be making an attempt to promote the home rapidly,’ she stated. ‘I needed to attempt to promote it earlier than they took it.

‘At the identical time, I misplaced my mother, and my different mother, who has dementia, had run out of cash for her caregiver. I did not know which approach was up.’

But it did not take lengthy for Drea to start out raking in massive, life-saving cash on OnlyFans.

‘I saved placing extra footage up,’ she recalled. 

‘I used to be like, holy sh*t. In 5 minutes, I used to be capable of pay again compass actual property who saved the sale of my home.’

But turning to the platform was initially not one thing that Drea needed to do. And actually, when she first toyed with the thought, it was as a result of she and her husband had thought of becoming a member of to create a quasi-podcast.

‘I did it, however I did not need to do it,’ she admitted. ‘I obtained a number of warmth for doing it and it went f*cking viral and folks went nuts.

‘I imply, the unique premise to open the OnlyFans was Robbie and I have been gonna do a podcast on there that was controversial. We needed to place it behind a paywall so to not be destroyed within the media for it.

‘That was what it was going to be initially, you already know, like with him rubbing my toes as a result of it’s important to add a bit of one thing for OnlyFans in there.’

Although Drea joined OnlyFans out of sheer necessity, she has grown to find it irresistible and has discovered a brand new sense of an empowerment – and she or he is not planning on giving it up anytime quickly.

‘It feels good to see these images,’ she enthused.

‘They is perhaps touched up right here and there however the reality is that they videotape me going reside once we do the photoshoot so followers can see the photograph shoot occurring in actual time.

‘For probably the most half like I look good, and the perfect half about it’s I get to be heavier. I do not look good within the footage if I’m skinny. Before photograph shoot, I get to eat and eat. I get to bulk as much as look higher.’

Revealing her shocking pre-photoshoot eating regimen, Drea shared: ‘We’re simply carb loading. I’m simply being an Italian woman on this planet, consuming spaghetti and pasta and steak.

‘You need your boobs to be massive and your butt to be massive. Otherwise, the images are a sleep fest!’ 

Besides gaining an abundance of confidence and clearing her money owed, Drea has additionally been capable of launch her very personal streetwear model, ULTRAFREE.

The type of clothes was impressed by her 12-year-old son Waylon.  

‘He’s a hype beast lunatic, and it really works for us as a result of we will be doing a number of restricted run stuff, as a result of a few of its handmade in our yard,’ she shared. 

Drea explains that the idea behind the clothes is about making ‘freedom cool once more.’

‘Freedom from something that makes you’re feeling caged in, whether or not that could be a psychological sickness or bodily sickness or an ideology,’ she stated. 

‘God is aware of ideologies have been pushed ahead within the final three years haven’t helped society.

‘The merch is all about like, do not allow them to let you know who you might be, you already know who you might be it doesn’t matter what.

‘Don’t let anyone hold you small, you do not want a motion, you simply should be free.’