Felicity Huffman on College Admissions Scandal, I Had to Do It for My Daughter

Felicity Huffman is lastly talking out concerning the faculty admissions scandal that landed her in jail, and she or he kinda sorta continues to be justifying what she did, within the title of her daughter’s future.

Felicity sat with KABC’s Marc Brown and defined she had employed a extremely really useful faculty counselor coach Rick Singer for a yr, making an attempt to safe a spot on the faculty of her alternative.

The actress says after a yr, he gave her dangerous information … she wasn’t in control and wouldn’t get into any of the universities. Felicity says Singer “slowly” rolled out a felony scheme which she in the end purchased.

Felicity ended up paying Singer $15k to bribe a proctor into altering her daughter’s incorrect SAT solutions. As for why, she says it felt like the one possibility to present her daughter a future.

At one level she says, “It was sort of like my daughter’s future, which meant I had to break the law.”

Huffman spoke of the FBI raid on her dwelling … “They came into my home, they woke my daughters up at gunpoint – again, nothing new to the Black and brown community – then they put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me.”

She continued, “I asked if I could get dressed. I thought it was a hoax. I literally turned to one of the FBI people in a flak jacket and a gun and I go “is that this a joke?”

Huffman served 11 days for the crime.

Her daughter, Sophia, was not conscious of her mother’s shenanigans. Sophia is now learning drama at Carnegie Mellon in NYC.