[1] Winston later played Cindy in four of the series reunion TV movies from 1982 to 1993.
[2] While filming The Waltons, television series and reunion made-for-TV films, Winston became a close friend of her TV family: Judy Norton ("Mary Ellen Walton Willard") and Mary McDonough ("Erin Walton"), who played two of her sisters-in-law; the trio were known on the film set in California as "The Three Musketeers.
"[3] Winston effectively retired as an actress a decade later in 1993, partly because of a broken elbow which incapacitated her for a year but mainly because she started her own family and wished to devote her time to raising her two daughters.
Her husband is Bob Yannetti, an assistant TV director.
She turned to the less demanding role of dubbing and looping and has worked on shows like Ally McBeal (1997-2002 on Fox) and Boston Legal (2004-2008 on ABC-TV).