The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo took to societal media to denote that she voted for Republican statesmanlike candidate, Donald Trump, successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election.
On Tuesday, nan Emmy Award-winning actress, 52, shared a selfie that showed her wearing an 'I Voted' sticker arsenic she sat successful nan rider spot adjacent to her boyfriend, Michael Devin, who sported a reddish 'Make America Great Again' shot cap.
'Guess who we voted for?' she asked. 'We voted for ourselves. We nan people. You n maine pinch nan justness convention successful spot to drain nan fckn neocon/ firm swamp.'
She proceeded to uncover that she formed her ballot for Trump, who she referred to arsenic 'big daddy' connected her Instagram Story, and his moving mate, JD Vance.
The mother-of-two went connected to impulse her followers to alteration their position for illustration their 'life depends connected it.'
The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo took to societal media to denote that she voted for Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election
'Research your reality. Not connected Google's first 20 hits,' she wrote, earlier going connected to stock a photograph of herself successful a 'TRUMP 2024' t-shirt, which had 'F**K YOUR FEELINGS' written crossed her chest.
On Independence Day, de Matteo described herself arsenic a 'life agelong progressive liberal' but said she would beryllium 'damned if nan hijacked bluish aliases reddish party' put 'another 'puppet successful nan bluish spot to transportation retired nan heavy authorities agenda.'
'I cognize each these highly able aging celebs [are] telling you guys to ballot connected societal issues for illustration abortion rights- these are not nan matters astatine hand,' she claimed. 'You ballot for women's authorities while women's sports is nary longer theirs.. you ballot for my assemblage my prime arsenic agelong arsenic it fits your narrative.'
'If we want existent populist we must springiness decisions backmost to nan states truthful we nan group are really progressive successful determination making,' she stressed. 'I'm coming astatine this arsenic a woman, a mother, a pro prime and a pro life advocate. I've terminated pregnancies positive person 2 beautiful children. I situation each women conscionable this twelvemonth to look beyond abortion rights.'
A period prior, de Mateo boasted that her OnlyFans career, which she kicked disconnected past summer, helped her get distant from nan seedy underbelly of Hollywood and fixed her nan state to go her ain boss.
The retired character sewage precocious candid astir really trading racy images and video connected nan net contented subscription work has changed her life.
During an question and reply pinch TMZ, she maintained her stance connected nan shadiness of nan movie and tv manufacture and bragged that OnlyFans provides a safer abstraction for her.
Drea - who played Adriana La Cerva connected HBO's deed series The Sopranos - said: 'Hollywood nan existent manufacture itself, there's a batch of shifty s*** that goes connected successful Hollywood and we each cognize that. It's astir state and I don't person to reply to f***ing anybody correct now.'
On Tuesday, nan Emmy Award-winning actress, 52, shared a selfie that showed her wearing an 'I Voted' sticker arsenic she sat successful nan rider spot adjacent to her boyfriend, Michael Devin, who sported a reddish 'Make America Great Again' shot cap
'Research your reality. Not connected Google's first 20 hits,' she told her fans, earlier posting a photograph of herself successful a 'TRUMP 2024' t-shirt, which had 'F**K YOUR FEELINGS' written crossed her chest
The mother-of-two went connected to impulse her followers to alteration their position for illustration their 'life depends connected it'
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'Why did I subordinate OnlyFans? When we launched we had - I would opportunity - a mates 100 bucks near successful nan bank. I'm not kidding. My location was going into for foreclosure,' she said successful a clip, shared by TMZ.
She continued: 'Did I do it retired of desperation? F*** yes I did. Did I deliberation it would empower maine conscionable to beryllium connected OnlyFans? No, that wasn't nan f***ing constituent you cognize it empowered maine to return attraction of my f***ing family. So nan negativity that came pinch it, bring it nan f*** on.'
Back successful March, The Sopranos prima slammed Hollywood aft being blacklisted by nan studios for refusing to get nan Covid vaccine – revealing that it would return a batch for her to travel retired of retirement.
Earlier this year, she claimed she was forced to move to nan subscription work OnlyFans to make money aft her stance connected nan vaccination caused her acting activity to barren up and her supplier to driblet her, which quickly led her to being successful a perilous financial business and astatine consequence of losing her home.
Although Drea has since declared she was capable to make capable rate successful 5 minutes of launching her floor plan to salary backmost her owe foreclosure, she has now implied that she herself is cutting ties pinch Hollywood.
In August 2023, de Matteo joined nan subscription site, OnlyFans, to make much money and debar losing her home
Speaking exclusively pinch DailyMail.com, Drea blasted nan 'saturated' industry, and said: 'I mean, that spot [Hollywood] is simply a freaking cesspool. I'm not gonna lie. TV sucks.
'There's thing great. Sopranos opened nan doorway for [me] 100 per cent.'
Drea starred arsenic Adriana La Cerva successful The Sopranos for 7 years betwixt 1999 and 2006.
Referring to a caller gathering pinch nan HBO drama's showrunner David Chase, and executive producers Terence Winter and Matthew Wiener, she continued: 'They were doing a sheet and they fundamentally were like, "We don't moreover spot nan assemblage anymore because it's each of this worldly that societies cram down people's throats."
'It's like, I don't moreover cognize that it's nan audience. I deliberation it's much nan industry.
'The manufacture has just... everything that our procreation has pushed for, whether it beryllium amended television, whether it beryllium quality rights, assemblage sovereignty, each of these things, they took it and made an aberration retired of it.
The character is champion known for her starring domiciled arsenic Adriana La Cerva successful The Sopranos betwixt 1999 and 2006 (pictured supra successful character)
'And nan aforesaid point went for television. Television is truthful saturated. Streaming doesn't thief anybody isolated from for nan large corporations.'
Weighing up whether she would ever spell backmost to acting, Drea said: 'It would person to really beryllium thing that was meaningful to me.
'I don't request to conscionable jump connected conscionable to get a paycheck moreover though I had virtually $10 near successful my slope relationship erstwhile each this was happening, which is why I started nan OnlyFans page.
'I'd alternatively stake connected myself than stake connected nan man astatine this point.'
While Drea appears to beryllium disillusioned pinch Hollywood, she did stock that she starred successful a movie aft nan Covid mandates lifted connected May 12, 2023 and earlier nan SAG-AFTRA onslaught took clasp connected July 14, 2023.
In nan aforesaid question and reply pinch DailyMail.com, Drea said that her pivot to OnlyFans helped her prevention her location from foreclosure and motorboat her ain business, a manner marque she's called ULTRAFREE.
She admitted: 'OnlyFans saved my life, 100 per cent. I can't judge I'm saying that, but it really did prevention us.'
Tearing up, she continued: 'Anybody that wants to condemn maine and put maine down, spell for it. I conscionable dream you ne'er find yourself successful nan position I was successful to return attraction of 2 small kids.
'It saved my location of galore years that was very important to us. And beyond each that, it has fixed maine capable money to commencement up and finance ULTRAFREE.'
Drea had conscionable $10 successful her slope relationship erstwhile she started her OnlyFans account.
In 2004, nan prima won nan Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Drama Series; seen above
She had recovered herself successful a perilous financial business aft taking a forbearance to thief pinch her owe repayments, but yet couldn't spend nan astronomical sum that she owed collectors.
'They put maine into foreclosure and my location had flooded, truthful I was trying to waste nan location quickly,' she said. 'I wanted to effort and waste it earlier they took it.
'At nan aforesaid time, I mislaid my mom, and my different mom, who has dementia, had tally retired of money for her caregiver. I didn't cognize which measurement was up.'
Turning to nan level was initially not thing that Drea wanted to do. And successful fact, erstwhile she first toyed pinch nan idea, it was because she and her fellow had thought astir starting a podcast.
'I did it, but I didn't want to do it,' she continued. 'I sewage a batch of power for doing it and it went f*cking viral and group went nuts.
Back successful March, The Sopranos prima slammed Hollywood aft being blacklisted by nan studios for refusing to get nan Covid vaccine; seen successful 2019
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