Why is ‘Desperate Housewives’ star Drea de Matteo on OnlyFans?

Desperate Housewives star Drea de Matteo has finally revealed the reason why she has joined the social media platform the ‘OnlyFans’. It was her financial straits that forced her to join it. 

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she simply said that she’s earning more money now than during her huge TV career. She also spoke candidly about her efforts on OnlyFans and disclosed that she has earned more from her pictures and videos on the site than she did appearing on screens for over a decade.

“I never got paid a lot to act, that’s the truth. I was always paid the lowest, to a degree, I would say,” she explained.

“There wasn’t a lot of money when I first started with Sopranos. I was a day player, then I became a recurring [character] – they were hard-nosed, the way they negotiated with us. It wasn’t until the end of the Sopranos that I was making a normal episodic pay,” she added.

She said that she lifted the show and went did joy and that was probably the most decent pay she had because she was on network TV for 21 episodes.

“FX didn’t really pay me at all [for Sons of Anarchy], that’s a known story … I went and did Desperate Housewives instead, but that was a one-year contract because I didn’t know if I would want to be there, too. So that’s a lower pay scale.

“I never really made a ton of money, so yes, I made more money on OnlyFans. It’s a true story. I know that sounds crazy but it’s not sustainable money for the long term,” she said during the interview.

Drea revealed that the career step ‘got her out of trouble’ and secured ‘money in the bank for the meantime’

The 52-year-old has been in some of the biggest shows of our time, commanding the screen in Desperate Housewives, the Sopranos, and Sons of Anarchy.

It is said that she was in dire straits before signing up for the platform and was worryingly close to losing her home after it went into foreclosure. Drea was unable to sell the property after it flooded, and she was also taking care of her family.

“I embraced it, because what was I going to do? At first, I was very nervous because of my kids, and I didn’t understand the site, I didn’t understand the app, I didn’t understand all of the things that come with it. It’s a lot of upkeep. It’s a lot of work to keep up with it, with messaging and all that stuff,” she said.

During the chat, Drea took a moment to clear up reports that she was able to pay off her mortgage in just a few minutes, clarifying that it wasn’t quite true – she instead made what she needed for her real estate company, joking that it was ‘more like 15, maybe even 30 minutes’.

She also shared that she can’t appear on the platform ‘much longer’ as she’s ‘getting old’, but until that day comes, she will continue embracing herself, and the freedom the platform has given her – both physically and financially.