Exclusive: Felicity Huffman speaks for 1st time about college-admissions scandal
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2023
- In an exclusive interview with ABC7, Felicity Huffman is speaking about her involvement in the college-admissions scandal. Huffman has also joined an organization that helps incarcerated women rebuild their lives. abc7.com/felicity-huffman-a-n...
She didn't have to break the law. Her daughter could have gotten into colleges she may have not picked first, but there are many other schools. Also her parents are millionaires, she would survive even without a degree. And she could also go and study abroad, like in the UK.
you don't have to rub it in. she admits she did the wrong thing. just stop. she paid for what she did (Jail time)
@@tomtom8786 didn't pay that much. Her and her daughter's lives will still be better than that of 99.9% of Americans who don't break the law.
No, you do not understand here. She obviously has not learned her lesson, she is just pissed off that she got caught (and paid for getting caught). She should have not said anything at all to the media, but if she is going to make a statement, at least tell the truth - I tried to cheat the system with money and I got caught. That's it, nothing more. This BS "explanation is exactly that - BS@@tomtom8786
@@tomtom8786um, did you watch the interview? Her responses are very telling. It’s very apparent that she’s sorry she got caught, not for what she did.
10 days in jail so cut the shit.she didnt pay for shit @@tomtom8786
What a joke. Give your child a future???? YOURE RICH AND FAMOUS!!! You could’ve had the best tutors in the world and your daughter could have earned her way in.
Her daughter could skip college and still have a great life.
That would involve believing nepo babies actually earning what they have.
11 days is jail time... not prison. Let's keep it real.
Ye but she paid with the neighbour's looking across and snickering every time she gets in the car 😂
@@chateaupig826Really? Her neighbors are probably saying..Damn thank God we didn't get caught!
@@tysmith2138 hence , the snickering 😒
I heard it was more like a resort with Lemonade served on Sundays and 24 hour spa built in.
That's called a holiday hotel jail time.. prison and jail are 2 whole different worlds
At the expense of other people's children. ZERO sympathy.
The main issue is that the system is available only for rich people. Normal people cannot afford the tuition fee or drown in a life long study debt. It's not like stopping these schemers suddenly makes higher education an equal opportunity system. It's corrupt to the core.
Completely agree. Talking about what Felicity Huffman does not even scratch the surface of a deeply unequal and broken education system. That's what we need to address. Huffman is just a useful scapegoat, as if a bunch of celebrity parents were the cause of this crisis. It is extremely funny though that a woman with her amount of privilege couldn't think of a smarter way to get her kid into college.. Jesus, lady!
My son worked hard to get into UCLA. Felicity should have spent that money on tutoring! I wonder who’s place her daughter took?
Exactly this. Congrats to your son for getting in on MERIT.
Congratulations to your son, but did you watch the entire video? As a result of her actions, her daughter was turned down by every college she applied to during the scandal. She eventually retook the SAT and got into a different school.
@@lakiiamccall3051 No, I didn’t watch the whole video. Thank you for letting me know. God bless
Correct. Carnegie Mellon. Poor kid....
Also, if she thinks her daughter is not smart enough to get accepted, didn't she think she wouldn't be able to finish her studies?
"I had to break the law so my kid could steal a spot away from someone who would have got in on merit" is a helluva take, ma'am.
Her daughter's future based on a criminal scheme is ok by her? She deserve a longer prison term.
Where in the interview did she say, it was Ok?
She talked about Undying shame.
A criminal screen.
And a debt she owes to schools and other family’s.
You might not like her but she’s not pleading innocent.
BIGGEST ACT in the history of acting .
Waste of tax dollars. She should have to do community service.
She felt like she HAD to knowingly break the law or she was a bad mother. What other laws has she broken to protect her huge ego? Rich people problems are so complex.
tax evasion?
This sounds like BS, blaming Rick Singer. Now comparing her experience to the black and brown community. All ridiculous.
I was thinking the same thing.
I actually couldn't believe she had the gall to front up and then when she started with the "wo is me" shit -Like WTF
lmao “not the black and brown community” GIRL BYE
yeah… I would have left that line out!
So freaking unnecessary 🤦♂️🤦♂️
How did black momma next to
Her not pipe up and scorn her ass for that one 😂
So these celebs are teaching their children to lie and cheat to get what they want!!?? You are a bad mother!! 😢
Shameful!!
Wrong .. she can teach them how to make license plates .
Done forget about 'these rich people ' and 'those politicians'. Because they are all doing it to varying degrees.
thats how the world works
Actually, she ended up teaching her daughter that breaking the law has consequences. I know 11 days is not a lot, but I think her daughter got the point.
Maybe instead of "GIVING" your daughter a future, as a mother you could nurture and teach her how to "BUILD" a future for herself.
"Give my daugther a future" wow this woman is ignorant beyond belief. Shes so out of touch with reality. Hard work is what makes people, no the school they go to.
True but to rich entitled people they think it's the school you go to and the car you drive and what your bank account says is what makes you lol
Wow, this woman has no ethics. Selfish as selfish can be. Apparently she thinks it is okay to buy a place for her kid, taking away a place from another kid who earned it on their own, deceiving her own kid, and that this equates to being a good mother!
gee relax already. she admits she did the wrong thing
I was waiting for the crocodile tears 😢 😂
not really! @@tomtom8786
@@tomtom8786how is it you can’t see how she only cares she was caught? And that she is still clueless. It’s great she is doing all this volunteer work but she is out of touch and didn’t pay for her crime.
'If I didn't I would be a bad mother'...you're a bad mother already if you're that wealthy and yet your child isn't capable of getting in to the ivy leagues. I'm Canadian and went to a super prestigious uni in nyc on full scholarship. It was shocking how many entitled, lazy brats roamed the halls. Equally shocking was how uninspired the education was for what those brats paid, but it made sense: my profs had lost hope. They realized they weren't teaching gifted and engaged learners, they were just teaching nepo-babies.
You went to Columbia university
She was applying to USC! Wonderful school, even better than Ivy League
This crook didn’t go to prison she went to summer camp. This proves that they are different laws and prisons for different types of people. She should still be in a real prison
Only 11 days of summer camp.
she paid for what she did and went to jail. and the public shame she got costs even more. so stop rubbing it in. she admits she did the wrong thing
@@tomtom8786she lied , not Even regretfull
@@tomtom8786 America is oh so merciful when it is a white person that commits the crime.
It’s a non violent crime equivalent to jailing someone for stealing a sandwich. Please. …. I take it you live in poverty. Normally the people who are super irritated by people with money are the poor. You could have made better choices yourself- so you aren’t living on welfare or living paycheque to paycheque.
Get back on her feet? She’s a celebrity, she’ll be ok. She’s just sorry she got caught
Go back to your Moms basement. Your liberal Biden supporter
She’s not learned her entitlement and privileged action was fundamentally wrong. You can imagine the other people there are like WTH is she talking about.
I so agree with u I am appalled at this woman she is beyond disgraceful and hasnt learned 1 thing
It's not wrong. And if you think it is wrong then your really lost.
Let’s be real, she didn’t want “Emmy Award Winner, Felicity Huffman’s daughter attends LA Community College” like a *GASP* NORMAL HARDWORKING AMERICAN
It’s LA city college babe
No she did not mention the black/brown community lady please!
She should have continued to stay silent. This just makes her look even worse.
I agree 100% The way she makes it sound like she had no choice, she was doing what her other rich friend's were doing.
It's embarassing to see Lynette Scavo in this state tbh
'Nothing new for the black and brown community' lol what
Still trying to be woke.
she's so entitled she still thinks she didn't do anything wrong and now she's trying to spin it like her children are coming from poverty and wouldn't get a shot, what with all that money her and her husband have... she's a liar, this is all part of her trying get back to her career, nothing more. she got her slap on the wrist and petty penalty, now she's crying victim.
Intresting, her daughter was smart enough to get into Carnigie Mellon. So she did all of that, and it turns out all her daughter had to do was study and take the test. She was greedy and had no confidence in her own daughter. Wonder how her daughter feels about that??
CMU drama program accepts only a class of student. The crime continues…
Wait? She didn’t tell her daughter of the illegal scheme? So how does her daughter think she got into the college? On her own merits + hard work studying? THATS the part that upsets me!!!
listen she paid what she did...she went to jail. no need to rub it in
@@tomtom8786 u obviously don’t have a child ur trying to raise as a HUMAN making it in this world Tom!
@tomtom o, get real! That was a lenient sentence!
Her daughter seems problematically stupid. She didn't give her the information because the girl's brain was full.
Agree totally. She is a failure as a parent. I worked 3 jobs as a single mother to pay for my children's education. One son got a scholarship but I still needed to pitch in to pay for extras. I taught my children about integrity and self respect. This actress has neither.
Just had to throw black & brown in there, didnt she?
She paid too little even after convicted for fraud. How disgraceful and abhorrent. Now talks like she is on a mission to save the world.! Why would anyone trust her to be part of a program where large donations are involved!
Yes. Her daughter might need a new Ferrari, so who could blame her.
She couldn't give a shit about anyone but herself and the way she "looks"
Being able to say her "indulged" daughter attends a top University will impress the ladies at lunch
If she’d just emphasized the work with A New Way Of Life - which is a genuinely worthy cause - and summarized her experiences as “I screwed up, but this is something good to come out of it,” this would have both been a solid step on the road to redemption and achieved the goal of getting the organization some decent publicity.
Instead, she looks even worse. I don’t think there’s anyone involved in this scandal who has fallen more from grace.
She should have put in more work teaching her daughter proper life skills and how to conduct oneself. She failed as a mother
Like her desperate housewives character.
Why didn't she go help the underprivileged BEFORE she fucked up
She makes me sick. Give her daughter a future…. What an insult to every average family. Boo hoo lady !
womp womp, get a life if ur offended by this shit lmao
Look at least she was one of the only ones who turned herself in and pleased guilty. kind of hilarious that she basically said look my daughters a complete moron so I had to try something to get her a place at college haha
Nah, not buying it .
Not good enuff .
Sounds like zero remorse to me....seems the jail time was too short.. isn´t it time to give her more time behind bars.....
So, her role in Desperate Housewives would do exactly the same... Soooo, in, the role
She and her husband are rich and famous, They really believed that their daughter would not have a future? . Did they believe they were the victims? 😬
Bro, this is not news😂
If the kids weren't smart enough to get accepted wouldn't you think why waste their money on college and get her on the job training for something she loves???
I hear maccas is hiring
being woken up at gunpoint by the FBI is nothing new to the criminal community, lady. If you put yourself in the situation that that type of thing could happens, you are just in the community that ends up facing that type of thing. Criminality is criminality.
Over rated college degrees, overpriced tuitions, and over the top charges for cheating in a corrupt system with brutal treatment. The entire system is fucked.
What a terrible role model she is for her daughter. Gross!
Some are born with silver spoons in their mouths but still find ways to get over. Those amount of days in jail is unbelievable. Different strokes for different folks. The MEDIA is at it again.
It sounds like something her Desperate Housewives character Lynette would have done.
literally something lynette would do
She was a bad mother for buying her daughters way into college. Her daught should of been studying to get into college just like all the other people do.
Still making excuses. She Did give her daughter a chance at a future, she had all the advantages a very wealthy kid has. This wasn’t about her daughter, this was about Felicity’s ego. No excuses.
She should have just apologized and shut up. She screwed another girl out of her earned opportunity. This brings an end to my sympathy for this situation.
The crime here isn’t that FH bought access to school and cheated other students; the issue is that she paid the wrong people and cheated the schools.
Schools have the right to admit students based on whatever factors they decide are most advantageous to their school and their goals. Academic excellence is one factor. Exceptional talent in music or sports are others. Exceptional financial generosity is another. If a school wants to admit a substandard student because doing their parents will pay for a new building or endow a new department schools have the right to make that choice.
Paying to get a kid into school isn’t a crime, but paying someone else (coaches and test takers, etc.) to cheat the school out of their ability to make those decisions is a crime. If you want to buy your way into school, you have to do the unfair thing in the legal way.
I was ready to say…she did her time, paid her fine, let her move forward. But not after this pathetic interview. 👎
Yes, what a joke. Wah Wah. Most of us work hard to get an education or a trade. My parents had morals and ethics and encouraged me to work hard. They didn't have to pay someone and I did not need to go to an Ivy League school to get a good education.
Unbelievable . HELLO , you fucked up .
Damn , why doesn't she just crawl back into the hole she crawled out of .
Kudos's to Susan Burtons organisation .
The real hero here ❤
put her back in jail her story will be better
Whenever a woman commits a crime, they blame others around them or attribute it to "Motherhood." I am surprised she only received 11 days.
Perhap she had latent post natal depression lol
Sorry, Felicity, I'm not buying it. You should just skip the "rehabilitation tour"-you're wasting your time.
I understand wanting the best for your daughter but seriously? You have wealth and even if your daughter had been accepted into college, she probably wouldn't use that degree anyway. Such a different reality and so out of touch. No sympathy here. Not one bit.
She seems clueless as to the biggest victims of her crime: her children! And she continues to seek publicity, which must be nothing but humiliating to them.
The rich, they keep getting less jail time then if it were someone else, and then they get to clean up their image by using someone else's work to do so. Our world just loves rewarding narcissists, specially privileged and rich narcissists.
that’s something lynette scavo would do 😂
She and her husband can financially afford their children's education. No sympathy vote for using very poor judgment and a sense of entitlement.
Ok so i have no sympathy for her whatsoever. What about the kids who worked hard to get into the colleges they wanted to? This is a slap in the face to all. And why did she get only 11 days, $30000 and community service? What a joke!! And there are other unuversities in the world. Why not study in Canada? Great colleges and universities here.
Still making excuses, I see. Her daughter is as fortunate as they come, yet all that privilege didn't stop her mom breaking the law to give her even more of a leg up than she already had. The obnoxiousness of saying this was the only way she could give her daughter a future is astounding. Does she think everybody else isn't out here trying to give their kid a future? Seems like she thinks the schools most kids go to are only for peasants and not worthy of her offspring.
Her daughter didn’t have a future unless she cheated….?! Dumbest excuse.
Bribery is American culture
So will she stay in the trenches with the org being hands on organizing closets and exercising alongside the women? Or will she just be another privileged member of the board of directors now that her community service is done and she's shared this "look I'm helping women to atone for my sins" news interview. I believe the latter, this interview is just PR to improve her image.
Shit sticks
Exactly. It's oooh I got caught, gotta play the victim, then the phoenix who rises from the ashes saint who doesn't really do that much apart from generating pr spin.
piece of work - totally f'd up her daughters future - no justification ever
waittt aint that the man from that "newscaster sketch fail" meme thing?
I am glad Ms. Hoffman has turned this regretful episode into an opportunity to do good. 👏
mmmm i don’t think so, she dint HAVE to. She made a decision. She had no faith on her kid, maybe she should’ve taken more interest in her learning…sorry but boo boo 😒 i don’t feel bad for her at all
What she is saying is, "I felt entitled as fuck, I used to, but I still do to"
Anything to stay relevant.
😢these schools did this all for money.
Agree with most the critical comments here. 1. She owes the FBI an big apology from her snarky comment that actually revealed they treated her the same as anyone else. 2. She and everyone like her actually assumes the privilege of wealth over the less wealthy who can’t afford to break the law…her daughter took the seat of someone who deserved admission by earning it. 3. The charity she is pushing has nothing to do with anything here except making victims out of those who are guilty of breaking the law. 4. USC and the other elects institutions should have faced criminal prosecution as institutions as well…their admissions programs are not clean.
The daughter is in the “drama” program. Fitting. Sadly, her parents made her a tv movie with all the drama.
The end they say she didn't get into the colleges she wanted and settled for Carnegie Mellon. CMU is still an elite college & very expensive school. So she broke the law and yet her daughter still got into a top college. I tell me children to strive to get accept into CMU since it's in our community, but we wouldn't be able to afford it.
When are people going to start admitting they screwed up and stop making excuses. OWN your mistakes and people will have more respect for you. Continuing to make excuses makes you even more vile.
Not me thinking she was still in prison ☠️
With a 15 yr old in an extremely good private school here in Nashville, I dont condone what she did BUT I do understand why she did it.
There's tons of free lectures on youtube from ivy league schools and professors. People don't actually give a crap about learning though, they just want the framed piece of paper for prestige and ego.
Give her a chance?? Well, what does that say about our education system and what does that say about "pay to play" financial systems?
As a black man i am here for Felicity. No one is perfect. I have seen her champion the black race wit heart in interviews. Everything isnt about tace
It’s giving desperate housewives
I need to know her publicist
I’d keep my mouth shut at this point if I was her.
How much did she pay the organization lady for her praise?
Why did she bring up the black and brown community?
Thousands and thousands of students deserve to go to college but parents do not have money to cheat.
You're trying to make money..girl you did 12 days..help the homeless.
Just feel like she is shifting the blame onto the Counsellor (who is obviously in the wrong too) but she is trying to side-step taking responsibility for what she did.
There’s no problem doing it. She has money, that’s how life it’s supposed to be. Peasants are always resentful
Say what you want about her, but unlike others involved in this, she readily admitted what she id, took her lumps, and did her time.
Yes, what she did weas stupid but she paid the price.
Did her daughter end up graduating and finishing school? If so, is that degree null and void?
No moral compass... Imagine what her daughter has to live with knowing what her mother did.
Hoffman has earned her hood credentials. ✊
Huh..why did she have to include us..im not understanding😅
Y’all act like you wouldn’t do the same for your own kid if you had that kind of money 😅
She knew the consequences of her actions , took the risk and got caught.
It sucks but she’s a human who makes mistakes, unfortunately for her due to her career, people make money for exploiting her.
Cut her some slack.
Disingenuous interview. You could have had your daughter attend a community college and transfer to a 4-year university. An option for many new students unless you think that was an option that is not the more traditional elitist route. Many parents are faced with the same dilemma but don't break the law. Interesting, your daughter took the SAT's over without help and still admitted to an elite college. Can you explain that? Maybe you didn't have trust in your daughter to begin with to score well on the SAT's? Appropriate community service would have been to counsel parents and students on what not to do and provide the best options to get into college.
Sooo was test prep not an option?
why did she have to include the part about “nothing new to the black and brown community” ???
Exercise class for women on LA streets, them women were probably asking if she had a sandwich in her 10,000 dollar handbag. I doubt they were doing yoga prior to her showing up.
Whaaaaaaat????? "The woke my daughter up at gunpoint."
Considering what the daughter was being accused of that is the craziest thing I have heard all week.
Good for her!
Is this a comedy routine, the rich and famous buy what they want including people. She didn’t save her daughter from some evil, she cheated to get her into college. The dull and the shallow will eat up this routine. What about the poor individual that may have gotten that spot except for poor Felicity?
Using your downfall to help others is the way to go. Heal and then help. This is a great organization. And good on Felicity
She'll be writting a book soon. This is interview is only beginning of the promo tour. Believe me, she's not going to be helping others.