'Sopranos' star Drea de Matteo claims celebrities hate Biden agenda: 'People in Hollywood are petrified'
Emmy winner says Democrat has 'used social issues as pawns to further their administration'
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Drea de Matteo thinks many of her fellow actors are not in favour of Joe Biden’s leftist agenda, but are afraid to speak out against the president over fears they’ll be ostracized by Hollywood.
De Matteo, 52, told the Daily Mail earlier this year that she was down to her last $10 and was close to losing her home before she made the decision to join OnlyFans, an adults-only subscription site.
While appearing on a recent episode of Triggered with Donald Trump Jr., The Sopranos actress said that after voting for Biden in 2020, she thinks the Democrat has done “nothing but divide people.”
“They took every social agenda and used that and used these social issues as pawns to further their administration, (and) did nothing but divide people,” she said.
“And people in Hollywood are petrified. What, are you going to speak out against race and sex, and all of that stuff? People are afraid to have those conversations, because first of all, you never win with a (liberal), you’re just never gonna win.”
The Emmy winner said that unchecked illegal immigration was part of what changed her mind about liberal policies.
“When you let that many able-bodied men come over here in that way, with things on their ankles,” de Matteo said. “I just don’t know that they’re here to support the American people.”
Trump Jr. then asked if there are more conservatives in Hollywood that feel “they have to shut up.”
“Are there people that have your thoughts on the vaccine or the shutdowns or the oppressive government regimes, but they’re like, ‘You know what, it’s easy, I have a good life in Hollywood. I don’t want to challenge that.’ … I feel like (if) those people (spoke up) … that could wake up so many more people if you had more people who had the guts to do what you’re doing.”
De Matteo said that as Democratic policies shifted to the far-left in recent years, she “really did want to fight.”
“But I didn’t think I had, A, the voice, B, the balls,” de Matteo said. “I just didn’t.”
After her refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine led to her losing acting jobs, she said and she became outspoken against the government because she “kind of got thrown to the wolves.”
“Once I was out there. I was like I’m out here, what am I going to do? I’m out of my cage. Like, I may as well, you know, do what I got to do,” she said.
She says her family supports her and she believes in America finding common ground “the right way … not unity the way this administration is trying to push. That was bulls***.”
Under Biden’s leadership, she claimed, America is more divided than ever before but people with big profiles are reluctant to speak out against it.
“This administration just has been hammering all of these things … Liberals are supposed to be open-minded.”
As Hollywood emerged from the pandemic, major studios mandated actors and crew working on film and TV productions be vaccinated against the coronavirus. In an interview with Fox News last summer, de Matteo said she was forced to “switch careers and figure new things out because my own industry thinks I’m a savage” after she refused to get the vaccine.
“I guess you could say I was a bad girl because I did not follow the rules a couple of years ago. So, I don’t want to be at the mercy of mandates or strike or anything like that ever again,” the Shades of Blue star said.
The actress went on to add that her agent dumped her and her family “almost lost our home over” her decision not to take the vaccine.
De Matteo joined OnlyFans last August making her announcement with a nude photo on her Instagram posing in a pair of animal-print boots, smoking a cigarette while sitting on a bed. “OnlyFans is live now,” she wrote in a follow-up post that showed her in a black two-piece swimsuit.
For $15 per month, subscribers get access to uncensored shots of the Golden Globe nominee.
Other celebrities who have embraced the platform include Iggy Azalea, Denise Richards, Carmen Electra, Cardi B, Bella Thorne, Tyga, and Chris Brown.
De Matteo told the Daily Mail in February that signing up for OnlyFans was a way to help re-establish her financial footing.
“I kept putting more pictures up,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Holy s***.’ In five minutes, I was able to pay back Compass Real Estate, who kept the sale of my house.”
She continued, “I did it, but I didn’t want to do it. I got a lot of heat for doing it and it went f***ing viral and people went nuts.”
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