Sheila Rosenberg was Willow’s neglectful hippy mother, seen only in Gingerbread, though we heard her voice in Lie to Me. She was a psychiatrist who was so wrapped up with her work and with various feminist issues that she paid little or no attention to Willow. She joined Joyce’s movement ‘MOO’ under the influence of a demon, and almost burned Willow at the stake. Willow revealed in The Killer in Me that her mother was delighted when Willow came out as she felt it was some kind of statement.
Appeared in: Gingerbread
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I didn’t really get the commet in Gingerbread, when Sheila comments Willow’s hair, that she cut for a great while ago.
I mean, Sheila might was wrapped up in her own life, but isn’t it a bit odd that she wouldn’t even notice that her daughter had cut her hair?
March 24th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I believe that was the main reason Willow’s Mom was in the episode. To show us some background on Willow. To paint her mother like that. Heck, she didn’t even know Buffy’s name. Willow pretty much raised herself. Good job Will.
March 25th, 2006 at 2:43 am
For the most part children in Sunnydale might have been better off being raised by wolves. Any parent worth the name should have packed up their family and moved just based on a death rate that made Washington D.C. look like Mayberry. None of the parents seemed to take much interest in their children. Buffy’s dad-MIA. Her mom has no idea what going on or avoids knowing which is just as bad. Willow’s mom. Xander’s homelife is the stuff of bad made-for-tv movies. Did anybody but Buffy’s mom even come to parent-teacher night in School Hard? When the giant snake attacks the graduation ceremoney, the few parents that bothered to show up run away leaving their kids to be eaten. And Family Services is going to put Dawn in foster care for missing some school.