Realising a basket isn’t the best hiding place after all, Gothel decides to confine the newly-named Rapunzel to a tower in the middle of the woods for the rest of her life. After a certain age she only visits the girl a few days at a time, shouting out for her to throw her long hair out of the window so she can use it as a ladder, with a clear disregard for hygiene. Her visits are fleeting; she only stays long enough to humour Rapunzel and replenish her youth.