Nearly one year after former “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman plead guilty to federal counts of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud for her role in the college admissions scandal, her oldest daughter has been accepted to the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
Daily Mail reported that Sophia, 19, shared the news on Instagram by posting “CMU Drama 24,” implying that she had been accepted as a member of the school’s class of 2024.
This came after her mother plead guilty to charges related to her paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to have a proctor correct Sophia’s answers on the SAT. Huffman had admitted in a letter to the judge that she had decided to do this after Sophia’s low math scores on the exam threatened her dreams of going to college and pursuing an acting career. The Emmy-winning actress told the judge that she “betrayed” her daughter, who she said was not aware of the plan at all.
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“This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty,” Huffman wrote.
Huffman added that Sophia only found out what had happened when the rest of the world did, and that the furious teenager then asked her mother, “Why didn’t you believe in me?” Huffman was eventually sentenced to 14 days in jail, one year of supervised release, a $30,000 fine and 250 hours of community service.
Sophia is one of two daughters that Huffman shares with her husband, “Shameless” actor William H. Macy. Sophia has tried to put the scandal behind her in the past few months by launching her own acting career, appearing in an episode on Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s anthology series “The Twilight Zone.”
Other parents involved in the college admissions scandal include “Fuller House” actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli. Unlike Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli are fighting the charges against them and claiming that they did nothing wrong. They are each facing 45 years in prison if convicted on all charges, and they are due to go to trial later this year.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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