Modern Family Star Ariel Winter's Mom Could Face Legal Problems Over Police Report

May 28 2018, Updated 10:07 a.m. ET
By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor
The mother of Modern Family star Ariel Winter could be in trouble with police if they determine she filed a false police report three days after losing custody of her daughter, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting exclusively. What's more, police are planning to question Ariel's mom about the timing of the report.
Chrisoula Workman filed a police report that she found her daughter in bed with her 18-year-old boyfriend just days after a court awarded temporary custody of Ariel to her older sister Shanelle Gray. That timing has raised suspicions and a source close to the family drama tells Breaking Celebrity News that the star's mother could face legal consequences if it's determined that she filed a false police report.
"This police report was filed three days after she lost custody of Ariel to her older daughter," the source told Breaking Celebrity News. "It's a misdemeanor in California to file a false police report, and cops are now looking at Chrisoula's initial complaint, and are going to be paying her a visit in the very near future to ask her about the timing of filing the police report.
"Cops were unaware that Chris had lost custody of Ariel at the time, and that certainly changes the course of the investigation."
Meanwhile, the family and legal drama is taking a big toll on Ariel.
"What is being lost in all of this is the utter hell that Ariel is going through right now," the source said. "She just wants to be very, very far away from her mother. Ariel just wishes her mother wouldn't fight the guardianship so they could move forward."
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Workman filed the police report on October 6, 2012, alleging that she had discovered the young lovers together on September 24. Judge M