Seranella was born in Santa Monica, California and then grew up in Pacific Palisades.
Seranella raised Michera as her own, often picking up the slack where Michera's biological mother's addiction paired with Walt's psychological instability left Seranella to pick up the pieces.
Not wanting to create a wedge between two sisters being raised by a single mother with two different fathers, Seranella made the decision to take in Maryann Colella as well and raise her as her own too, just to avoid the confusion of separating the two girls.
In the worst of the girls' mother's addiction, Seranella would come to bring clean pillowcases and basic food supplies even years after her divorce from Michera's biological father.
[citation needed] She had homes in La Quinta and Laguna Beach, California.