Felicity Huffman says daughter Sophia would never have been accepted into college unless she bribed admissions and thought it was 'a joke' when FBI arrested her at gunpoint - as she breaks her four-year silence on scandal that landed her in prison

"It was sort of like my daughter's future, which meant I had to break the law."

She claims the scheme was not obvious at first, but became plain when Singer told them Sophia would not be accepted into any schools without greasing the wheels.

'After a year, he started to say your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to.

'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 - but 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,' she said.

Sophia was unaware that her parents had paid for someone to alter her test answers after she completed the SATS.