Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24304025-20150208220434/@comment-24936039-20150222041003

Hmcooper4 wrote: I like the idea of adoption in that theory, and I can see a way for it to happen. While the best guess is that Cruella is in LWM England (probably some manor outside of London), that would make getting her car to Storybrooke a bit difficult (and we have BTS shots of the car in SB).

If they twist it so that Cruella spent time in Minnesota back in the mid-late 90's, that might work. And it would explain why Lily hated her family (I'm sure that Cruella can be a real witch to live with). And we never did see the mother, only the father.

After the 101 Dalmatian fiasco near London in 1961*, Cruella became broke by all the lawsuits and eventually fled to America in the 1970's. There she...


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_and_One_Dalmatians lists 1961 when the animated Disney film was released. If 1961 doesn't work there is a live action version with Glenn Close in 1996.