The Sopranos’ Drea de Matteo took to social media to announce that she voted for Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in the 2024 presidential election.
On Tuesday, the Emmy Award-winning actress, 52, shared a selfie that showed her wearing an ‘I Voted’ sticker as she sat in the passenger seat next to her boyfriend, Michael Devin, who sported a red ‘Make America Great Again’ baseball cap.
‘Guess who we voted for?’ she asked. ‘We voted for ourselves. We the people. You n me with the justice league in place to drain the fckn neocon/ corporate swamp.’
She proceeded to reveal that she cast her vote for Trump, who she referred to as ‘big daddy’ on her Instagram Story, and his running mate, JD Vance.
The mother-of-two went on to urge her followers to change their perspective like their ‘life depends on it.’
‘Research your reality. Not on Google’s first 20 hits,’ she wrote, before going on to share a photo of herself in a ‘TRUMP 2024’ t-shirt, which had ‘F**K YOUR FEELINGS’ written across her chest.
On Independence Day, de Matteo described herself as a ‘life long progressive liberal’ but said she would be ‘damned if the hijacked blue or red party’ put ‘another ‘puppet in the blue seat to carry out the deep state agenda.’
‘I know all these extremely wealthy aging celebs [are] telling you guys to vote on social issues like abortion rights- these are not the matters at hand,’ she claimed. ‘You vote for women’s rights while women’s sports is no longer theirs.. you vote for my body my choice as long as it fits your narrative.’
‘If we want true democracy we must give decisions back to the states so we the people are actually involved in decision making,’ she stressed. ‘I’m coming at this as a woman, a mother, a pro choice and a pro life advocate. I’ve terminated pregnancies plus have two beautiful children. I challenge all women just this year to look beyond abortion rights.’
A month prior, de Mateo boasted that her OnlyFans career, which she kicked off last summer, helped her get away from the seedy underbelly of Hollywood and given her the freedom to become her own boss.
The retired actress got recently candid about how selling racy images and video on the internet content subscription service has changed her life.
During an interview with TMZ, she maintained her stance on the shadiness of the film and television industry and bragged that OnlyFans provides a safer space for her.
Drea – who played Adriana La Cerva on HBO’s hit series The Sopranos – said: ‘Hollywood the actual industry itself, there’s a lot of shifty s*** that goes on in Hollywood and we all know that. It’s about freedom and I don’t have to answer to f***ing anybody right now.’
The reason that the former actress joined the premium subscription service has been well documented as it helped save her from losing her home.
‘Why did I join OnlyFans? When we launched we had – I would say – a couple hundred bucks left in the bank. I’m not kidding. My house was going into for foreclosure,’ she said in a clip, shared by TMZ.
She continued: ‘Did I do it out of desperation? F*** yes I did. Did I think it would empower me just to be on OnlyFans? No, that wasn’t the f***ing point you know it empowered me to take care of my f***ing family. So the negativity that came with it, bring it the f*** on.’
Back in March, The Sopranos star slammed Hollywood after being blacklisted by the studios for refusing to get the Covid vaccine – revealing that it would take a lot for her to come out of retirement.
Earlier this year, she claimed she was forced to turn to the subscription service OnlyFans to make money after her stance on the vaccination caused her acting work to dry up and her agent to drop her, which quickly led her to being in a perilous financial situation and at risk of losing her home.
Although Drea has since declared she was able to make enough cash in five minutes of launching her profile to pay back her mortgage foreclosure, she has now implied that she herself is cutting ties with Hollywood.
Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, Drea blasted the ‘saturated’ industry, and said: ‘I mean, that place [Hollywood] is a freaking cesspool. I’m not gonna lie. TV sucks.
‘There’s nothing great. Sopranos opened the door for [me] 100 per cent.’
Drea starred as Adriana La Cerva in The Sopranos for seven years between 1999 and 2006.
Referring to a recent meeting with the HBO drama’s showrunner David Chase, and executive producers Terence Winter and Matthew Wiener, she continued: ‘They were doing a panel and they basically were like, “We don’t even trust the audience anymore because it’s all of this stuff that societies cram down people’s throats.”
‘It’s like, I don’t even know that it’s the audience. I think it’s more the industry.
‘The industry has just… everything that our generation has pushed for, whether it be better television, whether it be human rights, body sovereignty, all of these things, they took it and made an aberration out of it.
‘And the same thing went for television. Television is so saturated. Streaming doesn’t help anybody except for the big corporations.’
Weighing up whether she would ever go back to acting, Drea said: ‘It would have to really be something that was meaningful to me.
‘I don’t need to just jump on just to get a paycheck even though I had literally $10 left in my bank account when all this was happening, which is why I started the OnlyFans page.
‘I’d rather bet on myself than bet on the man at this point.’
While Drea appears to be disillusioned with Hollywood, she did share that she starred in a film after the Covid mandates lifted on May 12, 2023 and before the SAG-AFTRA strike took hold on July 14, 2023.
In the same interview with DailyMail.com, Drea said that her pivot to OnlyFans helped her save her home from foreclosure and launch her own business, a fashion brand she’s called ULTRAFREE.
She admitted: ‘OnlyFans saved my life, 100 per cent. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but it really did save us.’
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.
‘It saved my home of many years that was very important to us. And beyond all that, it has given me enough money to start up and finance ULTRAFREE.’
Drea had just $10 in her bank account when she started her OnlyFans account.
She had found herself in a perilous financial situation after taking a forbearance to help with her mortgage repayments, but ultimately couldn’t afford the astronomical sum that she owed collectors.
‘They put me into foreclosure and my house had flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly,’ she said. ‘I wanted to try and sell it before they took it.
‘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.’
Turning to the platform was initially not something that Drea wanted to do. And in fact, when she first toyed with the idea, it was because she and her boyfriend had thought about starting a podcast.
‘I did it, but I didn’t want to do it,’ she continued. ‘I got a lot of heat for doing it and it went f*cking viral and people went nuts.
‘I mean, the original premise to open the OnlyFans was Robbie and I were gonna do a podcast on there that was controversial. 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.’
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