Talk about a desperate housewife!
Felicity Huffman, who is apparently tired of sitting at home and nurturing her long-dead acting career, has tried her best I'm sorry face and tried to restart.
Here was Huffman, of Varsity Blues Scandal fame and former Hollywood C-lister, donning the mantle of “white guilt” as she broke her four-year silence on the college bribery debacle, describing to ABC the moment of her arrest in 2019 : '(The FBI) came into my house, they woke my daughters up at gunpoint – again, nothing new for the black and brown community – and put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me.'
Reader, don't be fooled by the perfectly shaped blow-dry, the freshly bleached hair, Felicity past during her eleven-day captivity – and she wants us to know about it.
'I asked (the researchers) if I could get dressed. I thought it was a hoax,” she says, her no-makeup makeup glistening under the TV studio lights. “I literally turned to one of the FBI people in a body armor and a gun and I said, 'is this a joke?'
When asked why on earth she felt compelled to pay fraudster Rick Singer $15,000 in 2017 to ruin her daughter Sophia's SAT score and boost her chances of admission to America's top universities – the answer is simple:
Talk about a desperate housewife! Felicity Huffman, apparently tired of sitting at home and nurturing her long-dead acting career, has put on her best I'm Sorry face and tried to make a fresh start.
Here was Huffman, of Varsity Blues Scandal fame and former Hollywood C-lister, donning the mantle of “white guilt” as she broke her four-year silence on the college bribery debacle, describing to ABC the moment of her arrest in 2019 : '(The FBI) came into my house, they woke my daughters up at gunpoint – again, nothing new for the black and brown community – and put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me.' (Photo: Huffman and Sophia).
Reader, don't be fooled by the perfectly shaped blow-dry and newly bleached hair that Felicity suffered during her eleven days in captivity – and she wants us to know about it. (Photo: Huffman and her husband William H. Macy outside court in 2019).
“I felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future,” she explained to painfully sympathetic interviewer Marc Brown. “And so it was kind of like my daughter's future, which meant breaking the law.”
You see, Huffman – a millionaire several times over – felt trapped. She was simply unable to give her daughter the opportunities that other Americans had without criminal intervention. Don't you feel sorry?
She didn't even feel able to give her daughter a place to study Actdespite the fact that both Hoffman and her husband are… world-famous actors.
Author: Kara Kennedy
Top class private lessons? That wouldn't be enough. Are you leaning on some of your Hollywood contacts to give Sophia an edge like any other shameless star? That's nepotism! Transfer a few million to support your daughter in another pursuit if university just wasn't her thing? Not really!
But as the prosecutor argued in court, “(Huffman's) efforts were driven not by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral ignorance, made possible by wealth and insularity. Millions of parents send their children to college every year. They all care about their children's fortunes as much as they do. But they don't buy fake SAT scores.”
I can't help but think of the real victim in all of this: poor Sophia.
This young woman – now 23, but then a teenager – knew it literally nothing from tampering with Huffman's numbers until it appeared in the global press. She also didn't realize that her mother thought she was so utterly incompetent that she didn't stand a chance.
In fact it was worse than that. Because, as we learned at trial, Huffman's deception involved using Sophia's learning disability to gain extra exam time and have her transferred to another testing center – one controlled by Singer.
Even though the whole sad story probably caused the young girl terrible pain, Huffmann reiterates, “I felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn't do it.” (I'm sure your daughter won't agree!)
And in any case, Sophia, having begun the process of rebuilding her life, retaking the SAT, and securing a place at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University to study drama, must once again face be an embarrassment to the world.
I can't help but think of the real victim in all of this: poor Sophia. It doesn't matter that now—after beginning the process of rebuilding her life, retaking the SAT, and getting a place at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University to study drama—she's reimagining to embarrass the world. (Photo: Huffman and Macy with their daughters Georgia, left, and Sophia).
I did it because I believed my daughter was hopelessmother-of-the-century Felicity protests against ABC.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall as the Huffman clan gathers around the Christmas table this year.
So is this really just a cynical bid for reputation repair?
No, says Huffman: “I want to use my experience, what I've been through and the pain to bring something good.”
She was joined on ABC by Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life – a non-profit organization that helps formerly incarcerated women get back on their feet after prison.
A noble cause, indeed. But by delving into Burton's good deeds, Huffman tries to suggest that she was the victim in all this, brutally imprisoned but now released and rebuilding her life while heroically supporting others like her?
Let's hope not, because that would be a scandal so sickeningly fraudulent and dripping with deceit that it would even surpass the Varsity Blues fiasco.