I'm not going to criticise her if she did sleep with him or not come forward...she was only like 17/18 during Winter's Bone so could've easily been manipulated, like I'm sure a lot of actresses are (or were before the #MeToo stuff came about). I wouldn't be surprised if its just hearsay with him being all 'I slept with ___, look at her career!' as its a good way to manipulate someone. Wasn't Winter's Bone an indie movie so not sure if he would've even done much in terms of funding/promoting it? (As that was kind of her big break)
I do side eye her for constantly hanging out with him before though...I mean there's been rumours about him for years and I always got a sleazy vibe from him.