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Ariel Winter Reveals She Received “Inappropriate Messages From Older Men” As A Child Working In Hollywood
'Modern Family's Ariel Winter recently opened up about the traumatic experience of being preyed upon by older men as a child actress in Hollywood.
The Modern Family alumna discussed her experience while promoting the YouTube true crime docuseries SOSA Undercover in which she appears; the online show follows members of the Safe from Online Sex Abuse nonprofit organization as they work with law enforcement to uncover and apprehend perpetrators of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She continued, “I don’t wanna say too much about it, but by the time I was on a laptop and cell phone, I was getting inappropriate messages from older men, and it caused trauma.” Winter first rose to fame portraying brainiac middle child Alex Dunphy in the popular ABC mockumentary-style sitcom about a chaotic yet loving extended family, a part she landed at just 11 years old.
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