{"id":22394,"date":"2024-05-17T12:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=22394"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:27:27","slug":"drea-de-matteo-says-belief-in-god-freedom-have-become-reasons-for-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/05\/drea-de-matteo-says-belief-in-god-freedom-have-become-reasons-for-discrimination","title":{"rendered":"Drea de Matteo Says Belief in God, Freedom Have Become &#8216;Reasons for Discrimination&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22403\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/05\/drea-de-matteo-credit-kathy-hutchins-shutterstock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22403\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/05\/drea-de-matteo-credit-kathy-hutchins-shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"drea de matteo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Hutchins\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a recent interview, \u201cSopranos\u201d star Drea de Matteo said that leftists \u201cown Hollywood\u201d and have made beliefs in \u201cGod\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u201d reasons \u201cfor discrimination\u201d in the United States. While de Matteo has a checkered past, she created an OnlyFans account to make money after she was allegedly blackballed in the entertainment industry for refusing to take a COVID vaccine, her criticism of President Biden and the left is resonating with many.<\/p>\n<p>In the HBO series \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d de Matteo played Adriana, who Silvio Dante, a consigliere of crime boss Tony Soprano, ultimately killed. She\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/sopranos-star-says-biden-presidency-vessel-divide-us-comments-hollywoods-fear-roil-critics?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-foxnews&amp;utm_content=later-42816985&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkin.bio\">told Fox News<\/a>\u00a0that she now sees how life imitates art, as she\u2019s used her platform to speak out against Biden, whom she sees as a divisive leader. She said, \u201cLife imitating art, just for speaking out to the feds or whatever, you know? But yeah, I\u2019m sure that it was hijacked a long time ago. It\u2019s new to me in the last three years to not be able to have a voice \u2014 not that I even tried to. I accidentally fell into this big-mouth role that I have now, and, man, the far-left is going to own me soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vPs8mK5E3P8?si=hvO06-GQpueTMTcn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While she doesn\u2019t believe Biden has the mental acuity necessary to serve as commander-in-chief, she thinks the president\u2019s administration has been intentionally \u201cused to divide people.\u201d She added, \u201cI think that the division in America is beyond \u2014 and I don\u2019t think that we know really where it\u2019s coming from,\u201d de Matteo said. \u201cI doubt that it\u2019s just an old man who doesn\u2019t even know he\u2019s reading half the time. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s making any of these executive decisions on social issues.\u201d Because of the culture the left has created, she argued, words like \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cGod\u201d have become akin to curse words in modern society.<\/p>\n<p>De Matteo said, \u201cI\u2019ve been called every name under the sun. White nationalists \u2014 like, crazy things, but, you know, we forget about Guns n\u2019 Roses, the Sex Pistols, Velvet Revolver. Madonna wore crosses on everything. I don\u2019t know why the words \u2018freedom\u2019 and \u2018God\u2019 are sort of reasons for discrimination.\u201d She added, \u201cNow, these are four-letter words somehow, and I don\u2019t know how we got here. It\u2019s too much. There\u2019s no balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that de Matteo did recently appear\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1782853584389840995\">on Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s podcast<\/a>, \u201cTriggered,\u201d where she told the former president\u2019s son that she does not explicitly identify as a conservative. She did, however, joke, \u201cI\u2019m just so liberal that I\u2019m a conservative at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, \u201cSopranos\u201d star Drea de Matteo said that leftists \u201cown Hollywood\u201d and have made beliefs in \u201cGod\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u201d reasons \u201cfor discrimination\u201d in the United States. While de Matteo has a checkered past, she created an OnlyFans account to make money after she was allegedly blackballed in the entertainment industry for refusing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":22403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2444,32,2140,184,8],"tags":[2055,3905],"class_list":["post-22394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-christian","category-election-center","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-america","tag-drea-de-matteo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drea de Matteo Says Belief in God, Freedom Have Become &#039;Reasons for Discrimination&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Drea de Matteo said that leftists \u201cown 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