Ariel Winter’s mother blasted her estranged daughter, saying the 19-year-old starlet knew she lived in a storage unit and that she wears revealing clothes for attention.
Winter legally emancipated from Crystal Workman in 2015, citing physical and emotional abuse.
Workman told Inside Edition after the emancipation she became homeless and has been living out of a cluttered storage facility for over a year and a half. Her bathroom was a 4-by-6-foot space.
Workman said: ‘I lived in a storage space. There was no heat, no air for over a year-and-a-half.’
Ariel Winter’s mother Crystal Workman (pictured) said her daughter knew she was living out of a storage unit after she emancipated herself in 2015
Ariel Winter claimed her mother physically and emotionally abused her as a child. Her mother said she wanted to reconnect with her daughter
‘What was difficult was that my daughters knew I was living there’
Winter reportedly earns $100,000 per Modern Family episode.
Though Winter has made no indication that she wants to reunite with her mother, Workman said she wants to be back in her life.
She said to her daughter via the interview: ‘It’s time to fix your relationship with your mom,’ she said. ‘Every girl needs her mom and every mom needs her daughter.
Winter recently opened up about her ‘really rough’ upbringing, during which she claimed to have been highly sexualized as a child.
Speaking in an in interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress – who shot to fame as a child on ABC hit comedy Modern Family – claimed her mother would force her to wear inappropriate outfits and even restricted her diet.
Workman said she lives in this storage unit that is cluttered with boxes that remind her of memories with her daughter
Winter said her mother sexualized her starting at the age of seven and would dress her ‘in the smallest miniskirts, sailor suits, low-cut things, the shortest dresses you’ve ever seen.’
Winter has defended her choices of clothing and recently went on a rant on Instagram defending her wardrobe writing in part: Who gets to decide what is appropriate or fashionable???’
Her mother, however, said Winter wears revealing clothing to get attention.
Workman said: ‘I feel that Ariel is starving for attention. I feel this is a cry help from my child.’