 A Holy Soap writer stated that Cassandra acted like "a jealous big sister" towards her children, rather than being their parent.Goldsmith elaborated on this further during an interview with "Inside Soap's" Jason Herbison, saying that "Sass isn't a maternal person and has never been able to connect with her kids".She explained that Cassandra was very young when she had Donna and did not have the maturity to deal with motherhood.