And as for the super clingy comment…yeah…that sorta thing happens when you’ve lost everyone in your life. You hold on so tight because you’re scared you’re going to lose them too.
Ah, there’s another instance of Regina having to deal with consequences…she’d have had her father, with whom she clearly had a loving relationship, if she hadn’t murdered him. She and Maleficent were sort of friends, but she turned her into a dragon and then a zombie or something. She still does have the love and blind devotion of Sidney (despite having been rather cruel to him), as well as Snow still seeing her as family despite having been terrorized and almost murdered by her. Just saying…it seems like she’s killed as many or more friends and loved ones as she’s lost. (And she really has no room to talk about anyone else not thinking of consequences. )