Though Delia and Frank did eventually divorce (as they were both having affairs with Coleridge siblings), it wasn’t the last time Delia is involved with one of the Ryans. Delia reconnects with her first love, Frank’s brother Pat (Malcolm Groome), and after she seduces him and gets pregnant, the two marry. This marriage doesn’t last very long as Delia hides a miscarriage, fakes some mental breakdowns, and karma bites her when Pat pushes her down a flight of stairs (via IMDb).
After that disaster, Delia reconnects with her ex Roger Coleridge (Ron Hale). The two marry but eventually get divorced when Roger suspects Delia of cheating on him with her stock broker. Then, Delia sets her sights back on the Ryan family and begins dating Frank and Pat’s cousin Barry (Richard Backus). After discovering that Barry was having an affair of his own, Delia ran him over with her car, effectively ending their relationship.
Delia was then forced out of town after she lost her business to a local gangster and reappeared a year later, married to a wealthy oil magnate Matthew Crane (Harve Presnell). However, this relationship also falls apart when Delia is discovered having an affair with Steve Latham (Franc Luz). She relocated again, this time to California and didn’t appear on the show until two years later in 1986. In her final act of manipulation, Delia steals ex-husband Roger Coleridge back from his pregnant wife and the two are married a second time, just days before the final episode of “Ryan’s Hope” aired (via IMDb).
Considering Delia’s complicated romantic history, it’s no surprise that she might have given birth to a child that never appeared on “Ryan’s Hope” — even if writers had to cook it up decades later.
