Felicity Huffman says she had to break the law to give her dumb daughter a future!
Felicity Huffman speaks out about the college admissions scandal and serving 11 days in prison.
“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.” https://t.co/owDuDFBah3
- Variety (@Variety) December 1, 2023
Felicity Huffman is speaking out for the first time about her role in the high-profile college admissions scandal Operation Varsity Blues which, after being revealed to the public in 2019, resulted in her serving 11 days in prison. Promotes women's rehab group while doing so.
- "After a year, he started to say your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to. So when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seems like that was my only option to give my daughter a future."
- "I know hindsight is 20/20, but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do it. So I did it."
- "She was going, 'Can we get ice cream afterwards? I'm scared about the test. What can we do that's fun?' And I kept thinking, turn around, just turn around. And to my undying shame, I didn't."
- “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 and I asked if I could get dressed. I thought it was a hoax.”
-"I think the people I owe a debt and apology to is the academic community. And to the students and the families that sacrifice and work really hard to get to where they are going legitimately."
-"I want to use my experience and what I've gone through and the pain to bring something good, which is to shine a light on Susan Burton's organization called A New Way of Life."
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