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Hayley’s death on The Originals hit everyone pretty hard, but it’s especially upsetting for Klaus.

Speaking with TV Guide, Joseph Morgan opened up about what’s it’s like to lose her and becoming a single parent now that she’s gone.

“You know, he’d rather grown to like her,” Joseph shared. “I think they, in the beginning, were certainly at odds. They were two people who shared a night together and had a child because of it and would not be in each others’ lives if it weren’t for that child.”

He continues, “They’ve learned to live together to the point where they have become a family — a sort of dysfunctional, strange family, but a family nonetheless, and so losing her was definitely a blow. I think that it’s losing a family member. So yeah, it was very upsetting and made him rather angry, I think.”

As for the future on the series and becoming a single parent to Hope, it’s going to be difficult for him.

“He really feels the weight and responsibility of being the only parent,” Joseph adds. “That’s tremendously difficult for him to deal with. I feel like Hayley’s always been a much better parent than him, and she spent the time — she’s spent the last seven years, while he’s been away, with Hope.”

“For him to come back after such a long absence and then to be thrown into this situation where, ‘Hey it’s just you now with your daughter,’ it’s a very steep learning curve for him. So that’s tremendously upsetting.”

The Originals airs Wednesdays on The CW.

Hope was just dealt a massive blow on The Originals – losing her mom, Hayley.

Danielle Rose Russell talked with TVGuide after the episode, opening up about how this will impact Hope going forward on the series.

“[It's] going to have a massive effect on Hope and the rest of the family,” she shared. “It’s going to disrupt Hope’s kind of self-journey of figuring out who she is, and so she goes through a really drastic change midway through the season.”

EP Jeffrey Lieber added that “for Hope, to lose a parent is horrifying. And especially if you’re of a group of people to whom the death of people you love is not a given.”

“She is the daughter of everlasting creatures, right? Death is both all around her because they are creatures of death and also something that she’s not necessarily prepared for because there’s sort of a given of forever-ness with them.”

He continued, “From a human standpoint, anyone losing a parent just changes them. It forces them to deal with all sorts of things they didn’t think they had to as a child, but also there’s a specific color about this given the nature of her lineage.”

The Originals airs Wednesdays on The CW.

The Originals delivered on a character death that fans picked up on last year.

In last night’s episode, Hayley, played by Phoebe Tonkin, sacrificed herself to save her daughter Hope. Hayley ripped off Greta’s daylight ring and pulled them both into the sun.

Just before that, Hayley actually bound her werewolf side, meaning she was a full vampire.

“It was one of those things we knew from the beginning of the season,” EP Jeffery Lieber shared with TVGuide after the episode. “We were looking for a way to do it at a point in the season where it really resonated, where it changed all the other characters, but left us enough space to still be able to tell the rest of Hayley’s story.”

He adds, “That was what was really important…Being able to do it midseason, it causes an inflection point and it causes every single other character to change in a meaningful, primal way. It also again gives us space in the back half to finish telling the story in a really interesting, cool way.”

But is this the really the last time we’ll see Hayley? No.

“I don’t think I’m giving anything away in saying that she is in other episodes this season, so that her death is not nearly her end,” he adds, giving fans some kind of silver lining.

If you missed it, check out what Phoebe said about saying goodbye to Hayley.

Caroline (Candice King) talks with Klaus (Joseph Morgan) in this new still from tonight’s new episode of The Originals.

In “What, will, I, have, left”, after learning how she can get Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) back, Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) sets off on a dangerous mission to end the mess she started.

And Klaus is not happy about it. He turns to Caroline for help when he discovers her plan.

Meanwhile, Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) and Freya (Riley Voelkel) clash over whether to let Declan (Torrance Coombs) in on New Orleans’s supernatural secrets.

The Originals airs TONIGHT, May 30th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.

Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) has a talk with Roman (Jedidah Goodacre) in this new still from tonight’s all-new The Originals.

In “Don’t It Just Break Your Heart”, Hope is determined to make everything right again, so she takes matters into her own hands to fix the mess that she’s created.

Meanwhile, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) follows up on a mysterious clue that leads him one step closer to finding Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin); and Antoinette (Jaime Murray) opens up to Elijah (Daniel Gillies) after her past comes back to haunt her.

Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) makes a decision that puts him at odds with Klaus.

The Originals airs TONIGHT, May 16th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.

The CW is expanding its’ lineup to Sundays!

The network just announced today that it has picked up five new shows, including The Originals‘ spinoff, Legacies.

Danielle Rose Russell will star with Matt Davis in the third series of the franchise, centered on teenage Hope in Mystic Falls at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted.

So excited!

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Hope walks beside Freya in this new still from tonight’s The Originals.

In “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”, Freya (Riley Voelkel) goes to Mystic Falls to check on Hope (Danielle Rose Russell), who has been sent back to the Salvatore School, and finds she’s doing things that she shouldn’t be.

Meanwhile, Frustrated by the lack of progress made in the search for Hayley, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) turns up the heat by taking hostages from each of the three New Orleans supernatural factions; and Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) seeks guidance from Ivy (Shiva Kalaiselvan) after learning that Klaus’ erratic behavior is escalating.

The Originals airs TONIGHT, May 9th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.