'I keep asking myself, why did I do this?' That's what Felicity Huffman wrote to the judge in her case ahead of her sentencing:
Ahead of her sentencing Friday in the far-reaching college admissions cheating case, actress Felicity Huffman wants the judge to know she slipped into the scandal because “desperately” wanted to be a good mom.
Prosecutors want Huffman to spend one month in prison for her crime, and said her daughter was not aware of the crime. She pleaded guilty last May. The case sparked “a national conversation, a kind of Rorschach test for middle-class angst about college admissions,” they said in court papers. But first let me say, I am concerned that in giving you context it will seem like I am offering you a justification. Please, let me be very clear; I know there is no justification for what I have done. Yes, there is a bigger picture, but ultimately it doesn’t matter because I could have said “No” to cheating on the SAT scores. I unequivocally take complete responsibility for my actions and will respectfully accept whatever punishment the court deems appropriate.
‘My own fears and lack of confidence, combined with a daughter who has learning disabilities often made me insecure and feel highly anxious from the beginning.’ In High School my daughter went to a public school for the performing arts. At this school, which remains very underfunded, there is one college counselor for 300 students. many mothers, whose children had graduated, warned me not to leave the college process in the hands of the administration as they were overworked and understaffed.
I was shocked that such a thing existed and after he made the initial suggestion, it remained on the table. I couldn’t make up my mind for six weeks. I kept going back and forth while avoiding a final decision. I felt an urgency which built to a sense of panic that there was this huge obstacle in the way that needed to be fixed for my daughter’s sake. As warped as this sounds now, I honestly began to feel that maybe I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do what Mr. Singer was suggesting.
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