Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20130221220310/@comment-6175354-20130306153217

Fractuared Fairytales wrote: I could see Rumple using her - but honestly, I think Cora probably will end up loving him (really loving him) and getting majorly hurt, because of it. There has to be an explanation for her bitterness and hostility towards love. Perhaps Cora did fall in love with Rumplestiltskin, but it was because of his power. From what Rose McGowan said, it sounds like Cora was a desperate social-climber. All she ever wanted was power, of some sort.

What I think actually broke Cora, and turned her evil, was loosing Regina. Her child was the price for Rumplestiltskin's "help", in the original fairytale.