Actress embroiled in college admissions scandal talks shock at being arrested in wild rant

Actress Felicity Huffman is steadfast in her belief that college is everything, even after serving 11 days in jail for her part in the Varsity Blues admissions scandal.

He gave his first interview to ABC News after being released from prison for offering a $15,000 bribe to college officials, through the head of the admissions scandal, Rick Singer, to obtain his SAT scores. daughter She stated that she felt she had no choice but to break the law to secure her son's future. Singer had convinced her that her daughter would never get into the schools she wanted to attend unless the scores were forged.

“After a year, he started saying that your daughter won't get into any of the colleges she wants. And I believed him. And so when he slowly began to present the criminal scheme, it seems, and I know that This seems crazy at the time, but this was my only option to give my daughter a future,” Huffman said.

“And I know hindsight is 20/20, but I felt like I'd be a bad mother if I didn't. So I did,” she admitted.

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Singer paid a number of SAT test proctors to inflate students' scores after they completed the exam according to the daily mail.

On the day of the SAT test, Huffman said her daughter was nervous and asked if they could get ice cream after taking the exam.

“She was like, 'Can we have ice cream afterwards?'” the mother recalled. “I'm afraid of the test. What can we do to make it fun? And I kept thinking, turn around, just turn around. And to my eternal shame, I didn't.”

The FBI arrested Huffman and she ended up being found guilty of fraud in the bribery scheme dubbed Operation Varsity Blues in 2019 that involved 33 wealthy parents. Not only did he serve 11 days behind bars, but he had to pay $30,000 in fines.

He told ABC News he thought it was a “joke” when the FBI came calling at his mansion. It wasn't.

“They came into my house, woke up my daughters at gunpoint, again, nothing new for the black and brown community, then put their hands behind my back and handcuffed me,” she explained which brought racial politics into the mix for some reason. .

Felicity Huffman says FBI raided her home after college admissions scandal:

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“I asked if I could dress up. I thought it was a hoax. I literally turned to one of the FBI people with armor and a gun and said, 'Are you kidding me?'” he said. Huffman.

The actress says she now regrets being part of the plan.

Her daughter, Sophia, has a learning disability and she raised the money out of desperation to get her to a good school. Huffman's daughter is now studying theater at Carnegie Mellon in New York. The girl had no idea that her mother was involved in the scandal.

“I felt like I had to give my future daughter a chance. And so it was like my daughter's future, which meant I had to break the law,” she said.

Felicity Huffman Reflects on College Admissions Scandal:

“It was like my daughter's future, which meant I had to break the law. I know hindsight is 20/20, but I felt like I'd be a bad mother if I didn't. So I did. ” pic.twitter.com/FLCYn4wmAf

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“I think the people I owe and apologize to are the academic community and the students and families who sacrifice and work so hard to get where they are rightfully going,” Huffman stated.

The actress now promotes “A New Way of Life”, which is an organization that helps women who had been incarcerated to reintegrate into society.

“I want to use my experience and what I've been through and the pain to bring something good,” he stated during the interview.

Huffman was not the only one to be found guilty. Actress Lori Loughlin also served time to pay for her two daughters to be accepted at USC.

Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giuliani had their daughters pose as sports stars to falsify applications that presented them as athletes.

Singer, who masterminded the scheme, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in January.

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton is a constitutional conservative who researches and writes extensively on politics and current affairs.

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