Fans of 'The Walking Dead' have all witnessed some of the show's most cringeworthy hardships the characters are forced to face. However, creator Robert Kirkman has confirmed some upcoming hard times for a few select characters in an interview with EW.

The show has recently returned to AMC from its midseason finale in which the cast loses one of its most innocent characters. Viewers have not yet seen how this has affected the characters in the group closest to the deceased one, namely her sister Maggie.

Kirkman states:

"Maggie to a certain extent is adrift. I mean, she's got Glenn-that's somebody who's certainly a big part of what provides stability to her life. But one by one she has slowly lost her family, the Greene family-the family that the writers of The Walking Dead hate because we systematically kill everyone in that family. So look out!"

"But anyway, she's definitely got a lot to deal with when we come back, and for her it's kind of a two step grieving process because she thought that she had lost Beth when she lost her father. And it was kind of like a one-two punch of, "Oh my gosh, I've lost this person." And it was an uplifting moment and a moment of hope when she was told that Beth was out there and Beth was actually alive, but then she immediately found out the opposite. And so it was really kind of a gut wrenching series of events that she's had to experience, and that'll weigh on her tremendously."

When asked how Daryl would react to the situation, another character that shared a close relationship with Beth, Kirkman added:

"To a certain extent this might send Daryl on a spiral that leads him back into his old behavior. We've seen Daryl integrate into the group in ways that he hasn't done in the past and grow much closer to Rick and much closer to Carol than he ever was. And seeing him interact with these characters and be included in ways that he's never really been in his entire life has been something that we've been exploring. But coming out of Beth's death and how he opened up to that character and really cared for her and then ended up losing her-that might lead to him being a little bit more distant, which is going to lead to some other things that I can't talk about. So I think we'll definitely see a big shift in the way he interacts with everybody moving forward."

The full interview can be found at EW.