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Felicity Huffman Opens Up About Why She Broke The Law

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Bert Show.

0:01.0

Time to get buzzed on the hot goss from Hollywood with Abby.

0:05.0

It's the Bert Show's entertainment bus.

0:08.0

Felicity Hoffman is finally talking about the college admission scandals.

0:12.0

But how long ago did that happen?

0:14.0

A couple years ago, I mean it was pretty recent and if you need a quick recap on what actually went down,

0:19.0

so Felicity, along with other parents like actress Lori Laughlin, used college admissions consultant Rick Singer to get a leg up essentially for their kids getting to college and by leg up I mean fudging their SAT scores.

0:32.0

So Felicity is finally talking about it.

0:35.6

With LA's K-A-B-C, she explained why she felt like she had to do this.

0:42.4

I had to give my daughter a chance at a future.

0:45.8

So it was sort of like my daughter's future,

0:49.1

which meant I had to break the law.

0:51.5

Yeah, that's one way to go about it.

0:53.0

So she ended up spending 11 days in prison and she explained how Rick Singer, this college admissions

0:59.0

consultant, pretty much pitched this idea to everyone to be able to give their kids this chance at, you know, getting an education somewhere.

1:06.0

He started to say your daughter's not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to.

1:10.5

So when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme it seemed like that was my

1:18.1

only option to give my daughter a future and I know hindsight is 20-20 but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn't do it.

1:29.0

Yeah, she's really pulling the pity cart here. But I think when you're,

1:33.6

when you exist in that level of privilege,

1:36.4

I think sometimes you think the rules don't apply to you

1:38.6

and that you are the exception to every rule

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