It’s been greater than 5 years since Fashionable Household led to 2020, and Ariel Winter, who performed Alex Dunphy on all 11 seasons of the present, has largely retreated from the highlight. The actress moved from Los Angeles to Nashville together with her boyfriend, Luke Benward, in 2022, and spoke to Individuals in a uncommon interview about what she’s to this point.
“I didn’t depart the trade,” she confirmed. Winter has had just a few voice roles since Fashionable Household and has additionally began stepping into producing, along with performing. Actually, she’s the producer on a movie she’s starring on this yr known as Don’t Log Off.
For essentially the most half, she and Benward dwell a quiet life with their six canine. She has taken up cooking as a pastime and fervour and stated she’s at the moment creating a cooking present.
Winter additionally works with the group SOSA (Protected From On-line Intercourse Abuse) and works to catch on-line sexual predators. She beforehand claimed to be a “sufferer of grooming on-line and [in real life],” and has publicly accused her mother, Chrisoula Workman, of abuse, which Workman has denied (when Winter was 14, her older sister turned her authorized guardian.)
Since Winter grew up in Los Angeles, and he or she didn’t have good childhood recollections, she was impressed to go away town as soon as work was not tying her there.
“I simply left town of L.A. It holds some not-great recollections for me, and I’m younger and by no means lived anyplace else, and thought, ‘Why not?’” she defined. “When you’re not on a community present that shoots there, you don’t actually need to be there, and if I get a community present, I can simply return.”
Now, by her work with SOSA, Winer hopes to “assist others and shine a highlight on people who want it.” She added, “Greater than something, I would like my story to be that she makes use of her platform for good. My journey to figuring issues out and therapeutic is now by serving to different individuals. That’s all I care about.”