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.

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.

11 days is jail time... not prison. Let's keep it real.

At the expense of other people's children. ZERO sympathy.

"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.

This sounds like BS, blaming Rick Singer. Now comparing her experience to the black and brown community. All ridiculous.

My son worked hard to get into UCLA. Felicity should have spent that money on tutoring! I wonder who’s place her daughter took?

So these celebs are teaching their children to lie and cheat to get what they want!!?? You are a bad mother!! 😢 Shameful!!

Maybe instead of "GIVING" your daughter a future, as a mother you could nurture and teach her how to "BUILD" a future for herself.

'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.

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!

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.

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

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.

"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.

lmao “not the black and brown community” GIRL BYE

Get back on her feet? She’s a celebrity, she’ll be ok. She’s just sorry she got caught

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.

She should have continued to stay silent. This just makes her look even worse.

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

No she did not mention the black/brown community lady please!

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!

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??

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!!!

She should have put in more work teaching her daughter proper life skills and how to conduct oneself. She failed as a mother

She makes me sick. Give her daughter a future…. What an insult to every average family. Boo hoo lady !

It's embarassing to see Lynette Scavo in this state tbh

Just had to throw black & brown in there, didnt she?

Sounds like zero remorse to me....seems the jail time was too short.. isn´t it time to give her more time behind bars.....

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? 😬

So, her role in Desperate Housewives would do exactly the same... Soooo, in, the role

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???

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

Whenever a woman commits a crime, they blame others around them or attribute it to "Motherhood." I am surprised she only received 11 days.

It sounds like something her Desperate Housewives character Lynette would have done.

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 ❤

Bro, this is not news😂

What a terrible role model she is for her daughter. Gross!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She and her husband can financially afford their children's education. No sympathy vote for using very poor judgment and a sense of entitlement.

'Nothing new for the black and brown community' lol what

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.

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.

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

Her daughter didn’t have a future unless she cheated….?! Dumbest excuse.

I was ready to say…she did her time, paid her fine, let her move forward. But not after this pathetic interview. 👎

Sorry, Felicity, I'm not buying it. You should just skip the "rehabilitation tour"-you're wasting your time.

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.

put her back in jail her story will be better

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.

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.

piece of work - totally f'd up her daughters future - no justification ever

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.

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 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.

Using your downfall to help others is the way to go. Heal and then help. This is a great organization. And good on Felicity

You're trying to make money..girl you did 12 days..help the homeless.

What she is saying is, "I felt entitled as fuck, I used to, but I still do to"

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.

The daughter is in the “drama” program. Fitting. Sadly, her parents made her a tv movie with all the drama.

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.

Anything to stay relevant.

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.

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.

It’s giving desperate housewives

Bribery is American culture

I am glad Ms. Hoffman has turned this regretful episode into an opportunity to do good. 👏

😢these schools did this all for money.

Give her a chance?? Well, what does that say about our education system and what does that say about "pay to play" financial systems?

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.

At least she seems genuinely contrite. Have to respect the fact she did proper work for the charity and continued to help them after completing her obligations. Don’t think many of the other parents involved in this scandal have done this!

waittt aint that the man from that "newscaster sketch fail" meme thing?

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

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.

Not me thinking she was still in prison ☠️

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.

How much did she pay the organization lady for her praise?

Why did she bring up the black and brown community?

I need to know her publicist

You thought you'll be a bad mother if you didn't break the law? How about you are a bad mother FOR breaking the law. You sugar-coated your daughter's world. I'm sure she never suffered a disappointment a day in her life. Shame on you. Someday when she commits an angry, hateful crime she'll get off on the entitlement defense or you'll simply bribe her way to freedom. I feel sorry for your kid.

Why did she say, “normal in the black and brown community?” What was that all about? Did she forget she wasn’t on set???

What? Her daughter’s future was set from the day she was born. Is KCAL really that desperate for revenue that they let her do damage control on the show? Shame on you KCAL.

There’s no problem doing it. She has money, that’s how life it’s supposed to be. Peasants are always resentful

Did her daughter end up graduating and finishing school? If so, is that degree null and void?

You all understand with all your outrage and whining that this has been going on since the beginning of humanity and will continue to go on until we cease to exist. Things will NEVER change. Just accept this is the world you live in and stop whining about it. I have ZERO outrage

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?

I want to have parents like Felicity! Paying for my future!!

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.

I know Felicity was scared because her daughter had learning challenges but she didn’t have to break the law. She chose to. She and her husband are white, rich, and famous. The last thing they needed to be worried about were their children having a future. There’s a right college for anybody who wants to go, and a lot of schools have gotten away from looking at SAT scores because they know they don’t reflect students as a whole. Rick Singer also couldn’t dictate her daughter’s future. He’s not God. Anyway, I’m glad Felicity at least took responsibility right away and showed genuine remorse for her wrongdoings. She’s better than Lori and Mossimo in that respect.

Sooo was test prep not an option?

Huh..why did she have to include us..im not understanding😅

So another bribe

that’s something lynette scavo would do 😂