"We did an intervention with him at my apartment in New York," Albrecht recalled in the new Max docuseries Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos. "That was to try to get him to go to a facility for rehab. We'd had a lot of friction by that point, and the ruse was that I was inviting Jimmy over so we could talk things through and kind of clear the air."

Attendees included Gandolfini’s sisters and several of his castmates, said Albrecht, so the star was quick to figure out the situation. "He walked in, and he saw everybody sitting there, and he went, 'Aw, f--- this.' And he walked out," Albrecht said. "Everybody went, 'Jimmy, Jimmy!' And he turned to me and he went, 'Fire me,' and he left."