After being briefly banned from Instagram, “Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo is back with a vengeance to launch her new podcast, “Ultrafree,” on Monday, February 9. The series will feature “unscripted conversations with artists, dissidents, whistleblowers, and independent thinkers.”
The Emmy Award-winning actress teased the project with an Instagram post on Friday. “No script. No filter. No leash. Just this ol b!tch barkin up the wrong trees as usual,” de Matteo wrote in the caption.
The Ultrafree podcast grew out of the actress’ popular, non-conformist clothing line by the same name that captures the spirit of rebellion and brutal truth-telling that de Matteo has become known for. Per the podcast description, “Each episode examines power, culture, and the narratives we inherit—questioning who benefits, who is silenced, and what is deliberately left unseen.”
“Drea has created a space for curiosity over conformity, unity over division, and inquiry over performance. The conversations are intimate, deliberate, and unafraid to go where others wouldn’t dare,” it says.
The “Sons of Anarchy” alum was once a self-described “hardcore liberal” who, like so many others, started identifying more with conservatives during the wild times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I had Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she told The Daily Wire during a 2024 interview. “I believed the hype. I listened to the real news! I didn’t do my own research.”
At the time, de Matteo said most celebrities are influenced by peer pressure and groupthink.
“It feels sad to see how misinformed [celebrities] are,” she said. “We’ve been watching them try to dismantle anything from God to country to human sovereignty.”
That’s why she opted to launch a clothing line for true free thinkers like herself. To de Matteo, it was because neither party represented her fully.
This realization led to the creation of Ultrafree, a streetwear line she launched in 2023 to “make freedom cool again.” She said Ultrafree is not another brand geared at conservatives, but rather caters to any American who feels as she does: adrift, frustrated, but still hopeful about what this country can be.
“The pronoun for the whole movement is ‘we, the people,’” she told The Daily Wire. “It’s not red, it’s not blue, no more labels … Ultrafree is really about critical thinking and not allowing your mind to be hijacked.”
The actress said liberals are welcome to embrace this concept of freedom for all.
“This isn’t just a conservative movement,” she said of the clothing brand at the time. “This is a movement by hippies and wild cards and lunatics like us as well. We wanna be free.”
The podcast officially premieres Monday, February 9, 2026, and will be available on all major platforms.
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