Remember, it was in 2019. One of the star actresses of the series Desperate Housewives had been put in the media spotlight, and for reasons far removed from the star system. Felicity Huffman, who played the character of the pugnacious Lynette Scavo on screen, was arrested at her home by the FBI, and sentenced by American justice to serve a fourteen-day prison sentence. The reasons for her stay behind bars were the result of a corruption investigation in which she was involved. According to authorities, she had paid $15,000 to have the college entrance tests of his daughter, Sophia Grace Macy, falsified to guarantee acceptance. This maneuver was carried out by around thirty other parents who had also been charged. Friday December 1, 2023, the person concerned returned to this period with our colleagues from the American channel ABC7. For the first time since this judicial and prison episode, Felicity Huffman publicly delivered her version of the facts. “It was my only option to give my daughter a future”she professed during this sequence of confidences.
Felicity Huffman: “For my daughter’s future, I had to break the law”
In addition to his prison sentence, the 60-year-old actress also completed 250 hours of community service and paid a $30,000 fine. Despite everything, she denies today that she did not act with bad intentions. “People assume I got into this business looking for a way to cheat the system and make criminal deals in back alleys, but that wasn’t the case.”, she explained. And to add: “I worked with a highly recommended college advisor named Rick Singer […] and I trusted him implicitly, he recommended programs and tutors to me and he was the expert.” According to her, he assured her that her daughter would not be admitted without him giving her this illegal help, in return for money. “I felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do it. So I did it”she continued. “And it kind of felt like, for my daughter’s future, I had to break the law.”, she concluded. This is what is said.