Sopranos star Drea de Matteo says she never played Hollywood celebrity game, made walking away easy

Drea de Matteo isn’t big on red carpets or hobnobbing with other celebrities. The “Sopranos” star, 52, told Fox News Digital that walking away from the industry was “no big deal,” because she never really felt like she belonged in Hollywood in the first place. “You know, a lot of people ask me about getting canceled or getting kicked out of Hollywood or shunned.That never happened to me,” she explained.

“I wasn’t in there to begin with.I’ve never been a Hollywood player.

I’ve done a few acting parts of it on a few TV shows.I’ve done a good job.

I even have, you know, some achievement awards and things.But like, I was never really in the industry.”De Matteo, who played Adriana La Cerva on “The Sopranos,” explained that she has “never played the celebrity game.”“I don’t own fancy purses and s— like that or walk red carpets.

I don’t mingle with famous people.I don’t, it’s just not my world.

So, for me to walk away from it, not a big deal.”Right now, Matteo is focused on her new jewelry collection, which is part of her ULTRAFREE clothing line, joking that the tombstones in her new Tombstone line have name plates on them “in case you forget who you are, just take a look down there.”She said that charms can also be added to them. “I mean, so a lot of people make nameplates, but ours have little protection symbols,” she explained.“You could put a cross on it, a gun.”Her Protection collection, she explained, has gun pendants.“What’s funny about that right now is I always wore a revolver, a little tiny revolver with a pearl handle,” she said.

“People would give them to me all the time, A, because my ex’s name was Shooter, and B, because I was on ‘The Sopranos,’ and I always wore a bullet hanging from my earring.”She continued, “For me, it’s more, it’s a symbol.It can be a cross, it could be the Star of David, but it could be a Hamsa.

It could be any symbol, any religious symbol....