About Grazilda:
The story opens from a fairy tale land called Fantasia where the audience is introduced to the backstory of the family of Grazilda. Grazilda's mother, Matilda (Rio Locsin), falls in love with a man named Fernando (Joel Torre) who comes from the mortal world. The two elope and have two daughters, Fernanda and Anatalia. Fernando promises not to leave Matilda for the mortal world and past love, Veronme (Cherie Gil). This all changes however when the Fairy Godmother (Jolina Magdangal) banishes Fernando to the mortal world as this disrupted the peace in Fantasia.
Matilda is heartbroken and her parents tell her that Fernando left him. Angrily, Fernanda is effectively renamed Fernanda Grazilda (Glaiza de Castro) and a few years later, Matilda marries the father of Cinderella in order to forget about Fernando.
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Grazilda hoped to have a father figure in her stepfather but Cinderella was the only one he took care of, bringing Grazilda to long for her own father and treasures a tape recorder with her father's lullaby.
Matilda, upon learning of the tape recorder, reprimands Grazilda as Cinderella was never to see anything related to Fernando and his world. This, along with Grazilda's jealousy over Cinderella, leads Grazilda to maltreat Cinderella.
Cinderella's father later dies and the family inherits the father's debts. Grazilda takes charge and sells all of her stepfather's old belongings including a painting of Cinderella's true mother, much to Cinderella's dismay and . Cinderella is also made into the family's chambermaid.
Grazilda hears about the prince's ball and hopes to attend despite not being wealthy or royalty. She gains the opportunity, however, after saving the prince's life from a sink trap where the prince invites her personally. She brings along her mother and Anatalia but refuses to bring along Cinderella. The Fairy Godmother sees to it however that the Prince be destined to Cinderella and not Grazilda.
At the ball, Grazilda is asked to be the prince's first dance. Grazilda is however whisked away by Matilda to be groomed. However, upon Cinderella's arrival, Prince Charming forgets about Grazilda and falls in love with Cinderella. On the strike of midnight, Cinderella leaves with the glass slipper sealing her fate to the Prince whereas Grazilda is left disheartened.
She tries to disrupt Cinderella and Prince Charming’s wedding, reminding the Prince of how she saved his life and the promise he had given but as keeper of the peace and destiny, Fairy Godmother banishes her to the mortal world.
In the mortal world, she meets her long-lost father, Fernando, and ends up living with his evil wife, Veronme and mean daughters,Cindy and Tonette.
Grazilda will do demeaning works and will be caught in the same situation as her sister Cinderella in Fantasia.
Despite the cruelty of life bestowed upon her, Grazilda remains brave and steadfast in the hopes of staying close to her father with the help of none other than the Fairy Godmother.
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