Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26119997-20150219181955/@comment-24593592-20150220164149

LegionZero wrote:

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. All that happened was she let the power go to her head.

No, it's implied that the fruit messed with her mental state somehow. She randomly turned on her children after loving them for many years. There was clearly something wrong with her.