Felicity Huffman didn’t want to be a ‘bad mother’ — but she ended up being terrible

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spoke to a local ABC affiliate in her first interview since being convicted of fraud and serving 11 days in jail in 2019, as part of the Operation Varsity Blues scandal.

In the scheme, wealthy parents, also including “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin, paid college admissions guru Rick Singer boatloads of cash to side-step standards and get their kids into elite universities, merit be damned.“It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future,” said Huffman, who is married to fellow actor William H.

Macy. “And so it was sort of like my daughter’s future, which meant I had to break the law.”One would have expected that sentiment to come from a mother raising her children on food stamps in the back of a station wagon, not in an LA mansion with her Oscar-nominated partner.But delusion and entitlement are as dense as the smog in those parts.Huffman served 250 hours of community service and thought she could trade a little insight into her law-breaking in exchange for flattering coverage of the organization where she ticked off the hours and later became a board member.

Efforts that deserved a big fat F. Initially, Huffman said, she hired Singer to help Sophia improve her SAT scores, but after a year, he delivered a grim diagnosis. “He started to say, ‘Your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to.’ And I believed him,” she told WABC. “And so when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seems like — and I know this seems crazy at the time — but that was my only option to give my daughter a future.”Huffman paid $15,000 for the privilege of having her daughter’s test scores falsified.