By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Abuse allegations against the mother of Modern Family’s Ariel Winter have split the teen star’s immediate family, pitting relatives against each other, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

After the National Enquirer reported that Ariel is seeking legal emancipation from her parents, Glenn and Chrisoula Workman, the family’s dark secrets quickly spilled into the public spotlight.

Ariel, 14, was removed from Chrisoula’s home by an October court order after allegations of physical abuse that included “slapping, hitting and pushing”, according to one report. The child star is living with her older sister, actress Shanelle Gray.

Shanelle was given temporary custody of Ariel, says a report that has not been refuted, and the older sister was also removed from the mother’s home two decades ago, according to that same report.

But as Breaking Celebrity News reported, Chrisoula denies all the allegations and tells People, “It’s all untrue, it’s all untrue.”

Chrisoula claims to have a doctor’s letter that Ariel has never been abused and bizarrely added, “I have stylists’ letters that she’s never been abused.”