FOUR YEARS AFTER Felicity Huffman found herself embroiled in a college admissions scandal, the actress talked about the ordeal for the first time in a new interview.

Huffman ultimately spent 11 days in jail and was sentenced to community service for her role in Operation Varsity Blues, in which she paid $15,000 to “college admissions consultant” Rick Singer to falsify her daughter’s SAT test results.

“It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future,” Huffman told Los Angeles’ KABC in an exclusive interview. “And so it was sort of like my daughter’s future, which meant I had to break the law.”

The actress admitted that she reached out to Singer without the intention of breaking the law. However, “After a year, he started to say your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to,” Huffman said. “And I believed him. And so when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seemed 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.”