Adriana: Dead or alive?

The door is open for her character to come back.
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As soon as it was announced that actress Drea de Matteo had signed on as a series regular for NBC's "Friends" spinoff, fans of "The Sopranos" began counting the episodes until her character -- the well-meaning, but ultimately in over her head Adriana La Cerva -- would be whacked.
However, even when her foregone demise came, it was not with the same finality as say Ralph Cifaretto's (Joey Pantoliano) dismemberment. Instead, when henchman Silvio (Steve Van Zandt) took her into the woods, Adriana's attempt to crawl away was shown, but whether the gunshots met their mark was not.
"I just kept crawling," De Matteo laughs. "I crawled all the way to NBC."
She says that the fate of the mobster moll is even unknown to her.
"Some people still aren't sure if I'm dead or alive, only (writer/producer) David Chase knows the answer to that question."
Although she's still signed on for the next season of HBO's hit drama, don't put much stock into that meaning she'll make a miraculous recovery.
"You all know how that works. We have a lot of dream sequences."
Joining 'Joey'
Come fall, de Matteo can be seen weekly on NBC as Joey Tribbiani's (Matt LeBlanc) sister, Gina -- a Los Angeles hairdresser and single mother to a genius son she had when she was 16.
"I was sick and tired of crying every single week," she admits, "so I'm real excited just to have some fun and have a break from all that insanity and all those beatings and choking and hair pullings."