Felicity Huffman breaks her silence on the college admissions scandal: ‘My undying shame’
nypost.comABC-7 Eyewitness News that aired Thursday, Huffman, 60, broke her silence about her role in the wide ranging criminal conspiracy, which was dubbed “Varsity Blues.”In it, wealthy parents of high school students — including celeb moms Huffman and Lori Loughlin — were charged with using bribery, cheating and fraud to fake their kids’ way into elite colleges. “People assume that I went into this looking for a way to cheat the system and making proverbial criminal deals in back alleys, but that was not the case.
I worked with a highly recommended college counselor named Rick Singer,” Huffman said, referring to the ringleader of the scheme, who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison in January. “I worked with him for a year and trusted him implicitly,” the Oscar nominated actress said. “And he recommended programs and tutors and he was the expert.
And after a year, he started to say, ‘Your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to. And so, I believed him.”The “Desperate Housewives” star, who paid $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT answers falsified, served 11 days in jail for the scheme in October of 2019.
Huffman’s husband, William H. Macy, was not charged for any wrongdoing. Huffman laid the blame at ringleader Rick Singer’s feet. “When he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seemed like — and I know this seems crazy at the time — that that was my only option to give my daughter a future,” she told the outlet. “I know hindsight is 20/20 but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do it.
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