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"Justified creator Graham Yost has responded to the recent mixed reaction to the character Winona Hawkins. Raylan Givens&amp;#039;s ex-wife, played by Natalie Zea, started to attract criticism as she became romantically involved with the marshal again. Yost told Entertainment Weekly that he understands people&amp;#039;s point of view, explaining: &amp;quot;As much as we love Raylan, I think Winona reminds us that being married to someone like that would have incredible costs. &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s difficult to - at times - like the character who&amp;#039;s saying about your hero, &amp;#039;You shouldn&amp;#039;t be doing this&amp;#039;, because we want him to keep on doing it.&amp;quot; However, he moved to defend the character, adding: &amp;quot;But we wanted to make sure that her point of view was clear and it had nothing to do with her love for him.&amp;quot; Yost recently revealed that Modern Family&amp;#039;s Eric Stonestreet was lined up to guest star on the drama but scheduling conflicts prevented it from happening. Justified airs on Tuesdays at 10pm on FX. &amp;gt; Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s recap of the Justified episode &amp;#039;Thick as Mud&amp;#039; Watch a promo for next week&amp;#039;s episode below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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