Overview

• Winter says she was preyed upon by older men after starting her Hollywood career at age four, receiving inappropriate messages via laptop and cellphone.
• The in-person and digital harassment led her to seek professional therapy to address lasting emotional scars.
• She appears in YouTube’s SOSA Undercover docuseries, collaborating with Safe from Online Sex Abuse and law enforcement to expose predators.
• Winter personally took part in a sting operation posing as a teenage girl to help law enforcement apprehend an alleged abuser.
• Her revelations echo similar accounts from young actors like Jenna Ortega and highlight systemic failures to protect child performers.