Who is Hope’s mother on Days of Our Lives? Explained

Hope Williams Brady is back on Days of Our Lives to the delight of fans. Fans are also hoping to see the other half of the Hope-Bo super-couple, Bo Brady, in the future.

Hope played by Kristian Alfonso has had a long storyline on the soap. While she is Doug Williams's daughter, Doug's wife, Julie, is her stepmother. Recently introduced fans may not know about her real mother, Adelaide Horton, who died after Hope's birth in 1974.

New fans of Days of Our Lives may not be aware of past characters like Adelaide in the long-running daily soap, that premiered in November 1965 on NBC. The soap's plot follows the associations among a few influential families in the fictional Salem city. One of the families is the Hortons, while the others are the Kiriakis, the Bradys, and the DiMeras.

Hope's mother, Adelaide belonged to the Horton family, while Hope married Bo of the Brady family.

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More about Hope's mother Adelaide on Days of Our Lives

Hope was born to Doug Willaims and Adelaide Horton Williams in 1974. Actors Patricia Huston and Patricia Barry portrayed Adelaide at different times. However, Adelaide's back story revealed she was the eldest daughter of Alice and Tom Horton. She married Ben Olson in 1949 and proceeded to have two children from the marriage, Steven and Julie.

After Ben's death, Adelaide Horton returned to Salem and her daughter, Julie Olson, started an affair with a crook Doug Williams. In an attempt to break up her daughter's romance, Adelaide befriended Doug. Following an argument between the engaged couple, Julie walked out of the relationship.

Adelaide, who had fallen for Doug by that time, offered to marry him. In a convoluted love triangle, Adelaide became the wife of her daughter's fiancé. Her second marriage led to a pregnancy while being diagnosed with cancer. Adelaide pushed off her treatment till baby Hope was born.

Adelaide's treatment put her cancer in remission as she started caring for her newborn daughter. However, she died in June 1974 after throwing herself before an oncoming truck to save baby Hope's carriage from the accident. As a heartbroken Doug started raising Hope, Julie Olson returned to their lives.

Hope's half-sister, Julie, married her father and became her stepmother, while Hope was sent off to a boarding school. Growing up, Hope never knew her biological mother.

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Is Hope Williams-Brady back in Days of Our Lives?

2024 Thanksgiving will be a sad affair on Days of Our Lives as the storyline weaves in the exit of Doug Williams, played by the late Bill Hayes. Thursday, November 28, 2024, saw Jack unsuccessfully trying to wake Hope's father, Doug. While he broke the news to Doug's wife, Julie, others in the family came to know.

The episode that aired on Friday, November 29, 2024, found Jennifer calling up Hope to inform her about her father's death. A shocked Hope promised to be in town to be with Julie. She also lamented not being able to say her final goodbye, when Jennifer reminded her how Doug used to call her his "princess."

She sobbed as she told her son, Shawn, about the sad news and they discussed Grandpa Doug. After that Hope went to the hospital to sit with Bo. She told Bo the distressing news and urged him to wake up as Bo's thumb moved.

Hope will be back in town for Doug's funeral and may stay back. If Bo Brady wakes up from his coma, the super-couple may be back on the soap for another story arc. Stay tuned to Peacock every weekday to catch the upcoming drama on Days of Our Lives.