Felicity Huffman Breaks Silence on 2019 College Admissions Scandal

“After a year, he started to say your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to,” she noted. “And I believed him. And so when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seems like—and I know this seems crazy—at the time that was my 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. So, I did it.”

E! News has reached out to Singer’s attorneys for comment but has not yet heard back. 

The Academy Award nominee—who also shares daughter Georgia, 21, with Macy—also detailed the surreal evening she was arrested by the FBI in March 2019. 

“They came into my home,” she remembered. “They woke my daughters up at gunpoint. 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 literally turned to one of the FBI people, in a flak jacket and a gun, and I went, is this a joke?”

At the time, Huffman pleaded guilty to the charges, ultimately serving 11 days in prison—she had been sentenced to 14 days—and paying a $30,000 fine. Macy was never charged in relation to the scandal.