Drea de Matteo is baring all her truth with no hesitation, but what she most recently revealed is coming at the cost of people questioning her parenting. The 52-year-old actress appeared on the Not Today, Pal podcast and revealed that her 13-year-old son Waylon “Blackjack” is her in-house editor. But here’s the catch — he edits her OnlyFans photos. That information sent the internet in an uproar. Here’s what Drea went on to say.
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Her kids know she has an OnlyFans account.
The Sopranos actress started by apologizing to her son and 16-year-old daughter, whom she shares with her ex Shooter Jennings. “Blackjack and Alabama. My kids are out there. I’m sorry guys. I’m really sorry. But they know,” she said.
Drea says they don't see her girl-on-girl content.
“Before you start, your son was outside saying he edits your OnlyFans photos,” podcast host Robert Iler said to the mom.
“Oh yeah. He’s like, ‘So what do you want me to do with the bikini line here?’” she replied, to which Robert said she likely didn’t need to apologize to her kids then.
“No. But they don’t see the girl shots. But I do go over that with them before I ever put them out,” Drea shared. “I was like, ‘Are you okay with this?’ Because it’s like, if I were to do it in a movie, because I would make out with girls in movies all day long before I’d even make out with boys.”
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People were astounded.
“At what point do we call cps,” one person commented on social media. “It’s fine to have OF but leave your kids, especially underage ones, out of it,” another user said. Many people described it as borderline child abuse.
Drea is used to the backlash.
This is not Drea’s first rodeo with backlash concerning her decisions with OnlyFans. Despite the negative opinions she got when she first decided to join the platform, she says her kids are the ones who encouraged her to do it. “My kids were the ones that were like, ‘Do it.’ She’ll [Alabama] edit the pictures, too, because they want certain things that we haven’t been able to do,” she explained.
She uses the platform to support her family.
“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,” Drea said. “I was never the kind of actor that took jobs just to stay in the business. I literally took jobs to feed my family. So, when people make nasty comments about why I would have done that, my response is, ‘D— 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.'”
