Sopranos star blacklisted over vaccine stance signs memoir deal

Drea de Matteo is doing just fine despite her Hollywood banishment five years ago. The "Sopranos" star voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but refused the Covid vaccination a year later; industry friends distanced themselves, project offers dried up, and she turned to OnlyFans to make payments on her mortgage.

Fast forward five years, and de Matteo has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write a memoir that will cover her bohemian New York City upbringing, a sizzling "Sopranos" run, becoming a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stan and facing industry backlash for supporting Donald Trump.

She is staying mum about the book, but offered some perspective on why she supported Trump in 2024: "I was never political in my life. I was against the entire f–king system forever, both sides. I knew it was theater," she explains.

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