Ariel Winter Workman is an American actress. She starred as Alex Dunphy in the ABC comedy series Modern Family, for which she and her co-stars won four consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
What happened between Ariel Winter and her parents?
Ariel was legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 17, three years after her mom was publicly accused of physically and emotionally abusing her.
What happened with Ariel Winter’s parents?
In 2014, the court awarded guardianship to Workman and permanently removed Winter from her mother’s guardianship. Their mother later released a statement saying that “the family has moved beyond the conflict”.
In 2015, when she was 17 years old, Winter declared on Twitter that she was officially emancipated.
In 2017, Ariel opened up about the alleged abuse she faced from her mom, telling the Hollywood Reporter that her food was “very, very restricted” from the moment she began acting and that her education was totally neglected.