She served 11 days and Tanya McDowell, a homeless black mom, served 5 years for lying about her address to get her kid in school. I couldn’t care less about Felicity and her rich person’s problem.

I’m surprised that no one mentioned some of the cases where low income mothers lied about address to get into a different school district ( to get their kids into a better school district) and are serving years of jail time, versus this case.

No it’s terrible what she did, her kids had plenty of options being rich anyways, plenty of good colleges for them to go to without cheating

11 days?? Are you kidding me? Privilege indeed. It was a crime, not a mistake

Felicity Huffman was on an abc drama for over five seasons... she made multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars an episode, over twenty episodes, times five. Zero sympathy. There are MANY great actors who can't book jobs and are also ethical people, so maybe one of them will land the roles that are no longer going to her. Bless x

She's still rich and will do just fine. Her career was already on the decline before the scandal. Its hard to have empathy for her.

If I broke the law and had a criminal record. I’d struggle to get work. Why because she is an actor should she not face the same challenges?

I would have that sympathy if black mothers who committed even less are getting days rather than 5 years imprisonment. I believe the justice system needs to to be more merciful across the board. Why give felicity days in prison but give that other black mother 5 years for the same or similar crime

IT was a CRIME!! Not a mistake wth

She is going through what many ex inmates experience. Maybe she should develop a show where she helps other ex inmates re-enter society. Help them get jobs, use her platform and this experience for good!

Her career was already in decline before the scandal. Months before it, she was talking about optioning a crime novel as a vehicle for a TV series where she was the lead.

She wasn’t high in demand before but I don’t think she’s owned anything now. She served her time and that’s great now comes the natural consequence of her actions and you can’t avoid those even when sorry.

Yes, it should have affected her career. It's not about being judgemental like they just said, it's about having real consequences.

Sorry Sunny, just because Felicity Huffman loves her children and tried to help them, it still does not justify what she did. Sorry!!

I agree with Sarah. She was caught. She knew, as an actor, there was a brand to protect. She ruined her brand. I was a big fan once!!

I totally disagree she didn’t make a mistake she made a choice to be dishonest. She committed a felony and got a slap on the wrist for it if we’re being honest. If she was black she’d still be in jail. There is a mom that got three years for using an address they don’t live at just so her kid could attend a better school where is her acknowledgement of a mistake and slap on the wrist smh. She did something wrong and she is paying the price for it. These are the results. I don’t get how everyone else has to live with their choices but she gets a pass🤔 I call bs 11 days in jail for a felony charge c’mon now

Part of the problem is that because of actions like this actual disabled kids who need fair accommodation are going to find it much harder. No one is talking about that.

Joy said people are very judgmental as if she isn’t 🤣

Consequences are inevitable. She’ll be alright. Her privilege and wealth will get her by. Don’t cry for Felicity Argentina.

Oh please Whoppie?! A mistake?!

She is an excellent actress.

Just because she served her time does NOT mean she gets to be right back on top like she was.

Joy, honestly. Just go through ONE topic without bringing up Trump! 🤦🏾‍♂️

She’s not remorseful. She’s still rich. She’ll be fine.

Save the tears, Felicity, for someone who cares! She and her husband are sitting on at least $50 million dollars.

Awww, poor little rich girl 😢

She can be a SAT tutor

I think this should have been a larger conversation- in the real world if someone goes to jail it harder for them to find employment and housing. Since she has money she would not feel the consequences of her actions as much as a working class person but I’m not sure why the hatred of cancelling is not tied to level.

I have always respected how Felicity Huffman took responsibility and she went to jail. She took responsibility and has been honest. She served her time. As noted on this television, there are so many people who have committed greater crimes and had no consequences or remorse I hope she find forgiveness and hold her head up high. I don't believe her sins are any greater than mine or most people on this earth. One can hear the pain and regret in her voice. How long does she have to carry shame and humiliation? I do love that she noted she has people who love her and can abide in the love of her friends and family. I will support any acting project she pursues. Let's all send her love and forgiveness. Much of bitterness from other comments seems focused on the wealth and celebrity status. I definitely can identify such resentments in my own heart, but they are just human and her suffering is just real as our own. And she is continuing to work with the organization, New Way of Life to help previously incarcerated.

Whoopie always gonna stick up for her fellow rich Hollywood friends

Perhaps it’s off topic, but what about ‘legacy’ admissions? A parent went there so a child automatically gets admitted regardless of academic record. Not fair either, but it happens

I think the Mom should pay the price. What she had gotten away with it and all the people she have directly hurt by keeping them out of University when they qualified.

There's lots of celebrities who aren't working... Doesn't mean they're "cancelled" ... Lol

I have little sympathy for the very wealthy/powerful who choose to cheat to get ahead and who had plenty of resources to understand and proceed on the legitimate path. It was heartening to see the justice system make sure to punish these perpetrators. Esp. when so many in wealth/power suggest that the system is fair and the primary reason for commoners struggling to make it is some personal failing. It was also surprisingly helpful to those of us who had none of these "legacy", network, test-fraud, and other ways the wealthy/powerful cheat to get ahead: The Varsity Blues scandal totally cured our imposter syndrome! We KNOW now we totally earned our degrees and our jobs. 🙂

Love that Whoopi. Put her in Sister Act 3! She’s an incredible actress like you ❤

Joy..please, don't rationalize what she did. Her kid(s) took somebody else's spot..someone who would've gone in on their merit. 11 days is a cakewalk for a rich lady like Felicity Huffman

A Mother who lived in a homeless shelter with her daughter, gave another address for her daughter go to a better school. She had to serve 5 years in prison.

what about the harm that caused other kids who didn't get in to that school? She's not the victim...

It's mind blowing how Americans hold actors to a higher standard than politicians.

That’s so lovely of Whoopi to invite Felicity to work on a future project with her

Joy is funniest when she isn’t trying to be. 🤣🤣🤣

Best answer Woop

Sunny really thinks the daughter didn’t know? lol that makes no sense. She had a heads up even if she may not have been responsible for the negotiations

isn't there a (black) woman still in prison just for using a different address to get her kid into a better school? Correct me if I'm wrong because she may have been released. I think about her.

Although I agree with what they’re saying, I think when it comes to actors with public profiles, reputation and celebrity is tied into the job and so association becomes important, so it kinda makes sense she’s not finding work I think

This is why l love Whoopi!! You're the best!

The issue is that other people were affected by her “mistake”. At this point, it's above her now. Many of her colleagues were scholarship students who had to earn their way through school-and that isn’t necessarily a good look for her around them.

Compared to Aunt Becky, Felicity was humble and diligently did her time. I don't think her career should end. But someone made the point that parents serve longer sentences for sending their kids to outside districts. In that case, Felicity had a "good" problem and shouldn't complain.

She was trying to help herself. Her child didn't even know she was doing it. She wanted to make herself look good.

Whoopi, that was sweet. ❤

This was Not a stupid mistake. It was illegal and would have hurt other students!! Changed their lives for the worse.

Joy is hilarious effortlessly 😂😂😂

This is disappointing. Regular people have to deal with much harsher, much longer reaching consequences. Their Hollywood is showing. Besides Sara, who is the voice of reason as usual

Let's remember, Martha Stewart did 5 months in jail. In 2005 she got out smelling like roses and picked up her career where she left off

Rich people problems

she is a fantastic actor - independent of her mistake

The View: "If someone gets their consequences they should be allowed to move on" Also The View: "She spent 11 days in prison"

11 days and $30,000 with community service, what a joke….. If it were an everyday person without millions and a big luxury home with a very comfortable lifestyle, they would have gone to prison for years… And that's a fact!!

Was she working before the scandale ? I feel like I haven't seen her in something in a long time.

11 days in jail and she's complaining. 😂

What about the students she cost an opportunity? I want her to work, but I also want her to acknowledge that she was wealthy enough to have her child go to another school, and not take the opportunity from someone with fewer options!

We are a country that in theory supports rehabilitation through our prison system. The reality is, the majority of society is not warm and welcoming to people who have been convicted of a crime, even if they have served their time. It’s an attitude that needs to change. People make mistakes. If they own up to them and they face the consequences, life goes on.

The irony with Sunny’s cancel culture statement she was for it when Roseanne was cancelled after her supposed racisim comment Valerie chocolate

I think the public resents wealthy people taking actions that harm the middle and lower classes, not for 11 days, but possibly a lifetime. It’s disgusting and these are the consequences.

We are not obligated to be forgiven. When we do wrong we need to forgive ourselves. However, we also need to prepare to move forward without some people also.

sara being the voice of reason, as always.

As a mother of four who couldn't afford college for my kids, PLEASE.....

To Sunny - the worst fallout of Felicity Huffman’s offence, is that her daughter took a place in college that should have gone to someone who actually did the work and had the grades. Felicity Huffman has proven that she is not trustworthy, and that will affect her life forever. No one will forget what she did. She should have thought of that.

I love you down, Whoopi!

When you have take what judge say......then your life can go on as long you not do it again

So long as the comments she makes sound more like getting caught for her crime is some misfortune inflicted upon her and less like "I gambled on getting caught and lost" a comeback will allude her.

I guess I am confused as to why William Macy was not affected or talked about. Do we really believe Felicity didn't tell him hey I need to help our daughter to get in college etc. He got a free pass on this

Joy: "She can't vote?" 😂

Those rich kids ended up taking spots in Colleges they didn't earn. They have money for tutors. A poor child with straight A's trying to better their status can't now cause of these situations

I wonder if sunny will be saying this about Yolanda Saldivar 🤔🧐

She also owned up to it unlike Full House lady

I agree a felon should be allowed after serving their time vote, applying for jobs, applying for housing, applying for education and a few others!

🤔Is it just me who thinks Sunny would be capable of doing something like this? I'm not implying anything. I'm just saying if it were to ever happen, I wouldn't be SHOCKED. 😮

I agree some of the worse ppl be getting off or don't face consequences. But in the same breath, I don't feel bad for her either.

I’m sure she’s crying all the way to the bank. Thank you, Sara.

Why not? Martha never missed a step when she got out of jail

Good for you Whoopi.

The problem is how entitled and elites what she did was. The average person hates what her actions represents. I wouldn’t hesitate to go see her in a movie, many people probably believe she has paid for her actions, but the industry is very gun shy about offending. Also, her child was embarrassed, but that’s because she did not put in the effort to get the score she needed to go to a good school, and now everyone knows it.

if she never works in show biz again, it will be too soon. STOP AUTOMATICALLY FORGIVING actresses from hit shows just so you get to see them again in new shows and have more guests to interview. This sounds like people who are just preparing a future interview with good ratings.

The system which allows students' scores to be manipulated in favor of admission, does it then allow for the grades of these students to be manipulated as well? There's more to this, clearly.

Love all of Felicity's roles. I agree, she done her time, but, not everyone is a Martha Stewart or a famous musician, and have deals ready upon release from custody. Also, Felicity is a woman of a particular age, so, of you're a Meryl Streep, the phone calls start slowing down. I do hope to see her land a tv or movie roll. She's a fantastic actress

I can't believe that she did this behind her daughter's back.

What about Aunt Rebecca? She got her job back on Hallmark channel

She paid the price! For a non-violent crime! Let her go forward in her life.

Some of these ladies were singing a different tune when this first occurred

Lori Loghlin is still getting jobs even though what she did was worse however I don't get why Huffman should be entitled to work in the movie/tv industry again.

I wish they played the interview with her and what she said about her daughter....she basically said she didn't want her daughter to end up like those people...those people meaning black and brown so no she needs to be canceled

Oh, fuckin’ spare me.

Speaking a point of view of someone who doesn’t have kids of my own, but has plenty of nephews and nieces… Your responsibility as a parent is to prepare them for the world the best you can. If you have a name/platform/connection, sure. Go ahead and use that to get them in the door. Get them that interview. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s like being a referral for your friend to get a job. But you do not do the work for them. If they don’t make it, it sucks, but there will be other opportunities. I can sympathize with her, but I don’t agree with her.

I truly believe that Felicity stepped up and took responsibility for her actions.

She could play the villain.

Agree with Sarah.

Yeah, she could run for President! I think the panel got this wrong.

If you can get in college by your race, you should be able to pay your way in.

Whoopi....there are " mistakes" and then there's breaking the law "mistakes"... learn the difference