Drea de Matteo Saved Her Home From Foreclosure Within Five Minutes Of Joining OnlyFans

Drea de Matteo is crediting OnlyFans with saving her life.  The 52-year-old actress, best-known for her role as Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos, was down to her last $10 when she turned to the subscription-based platform in an attempt to get back on her feet.

The move did more than that.  She got back on her feet, saved her house from foreclosure, and has made enough to launch her own business.

Actress Drea de Matteo arrives at FX's "Sons Of Anarchy" Premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.  (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)

Shortly after joining the platform, Drea revealed that her refusal to play along with the COVID restriction and vaccine mandates put in place by Hollywood left her unable to work.  She lost her agent and came close to losing her home.

"I used to have a lot of money.  And then, all of a sudden, I went from being allowed to work to never being allowed to work again.  I was never the kind of actor that took jobs just to stay in the business.  I literally took jobs to feed my family," she told Fox News Digital. 

"So, when people make nasty comments about why I would have done that, my response is, 'Damn straight, I hope you're never in the f---ing position I'm in.  I take care of an entire family and a lot of other people who depend on me.'"

That was last year, after she reluctantly made the decision to join OnlyFans.  This week, Drea revealed just how bad things had gotten for her due to the ridiculous measures taken by Hollywood during the pandemic.

"It saved us," she told the Daily Mail.  "OnlyFans saved my life, 100 percent.  I can't believe I'm saying that, but it really did save us."

Drea de Matteo Saved Her House From Foreclosure Within Minutes Of Launching Her OnlyFans

Tearing up, she continued, "Anybody that wants to condemn me and put me down, go for it.  I just hope you never find yourself in the position I was in to take care of two little kids."

If the $10 in her bank account and her home being in foreclosure wasn't bad enough, she had other worries that included taking care of a parent with dementia.

"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," she revealed.

Within minutes of launching her OnlyFans page, Drea says she had enough money to save her house.  She just kept putting up content and the money kept coming in.

"I was like, holy sh*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 admitted.  "I got a lot of heat for doing it and it went f*cking viral and people went nuts."

While she had a different idea about launching a podcast on OnlyFans before deciding to go the more traditional content route on the platform, she quickly learned what works for her and what her subscribers want to see.

Riding on her link to The Sopranos is only going to get her so far.  That will attract attention and subscribers, but figuring out how to keep them coming back for more is where the skill comes in.

It sounds like Drea has figured that part out too.  She added about preparing for her photo shoots, "We're just carb loading.  I'm just being an Italian lady in the world, eating spaghetti and pasta and steak."

"You want your boobs to be big and your butt to be big.  Otherwise, the photos are a snooze fest!"

Nobody wants to hand over their hard-earned cash for a snooze fest, not even to an actress from an iconic TV series.  Drea gets that, and now she's making enough money to call her own shots.  Another OnlyFans success story in the books.