Nick Cordero's widow Amanda Kloots opens up about her 'different type of grief' following his death

'I will continue as much as I can to talk about this grieving process and hopefully it'll help others like how sharing Nick's story has helped others'
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Megan C. Hills15 July 2020

Nick Cordero’s widow Amanda Kloots has talked about her “grieving process” since the Broadway star passed away of coronavirus-related complications on July 5. Kloots, who shared updates on social media about Cordero’s condition throughout his illness, said that she had decided to talk about her grief moving forwards to help others.

Speaking on her Instagram stories, Kloots said, “This whole story with Nick, I have shared since day one because I thought it was very important to talk about because he was 41 [with] no pre-existing health conditions and no symptoms.”

“I will continue as much as I can to talk about this grieving process and hopefully it'll help others like how sharing Nick's story has helped others,” she said. "If we can't help other people in this time, through these times, then what good is bottling it up and keeping it in?"

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Although Kloots said that grieving publicly wasn’t for everybody, she explained, “I definitely have had my fair share of grief in life, but obviously this is something extremely different with losing a husband so young and having a son. This is a different type of grief for me."

Kloots said she was taking things “one day at a time and [doing] what feels right on that day”, explaining that she had been trying to keep busy and had been advised by a friend to do things that don’t “have any attachment to your past with Nick.”

"Some days are better than others,” she said. “Sometimes it just hits you at the weirdest times in the weirdest moments. Sometimes you're totally okay. Sometimes you're laughing and you feel bad for laughing because you're like, 'I shouldn't be laughing right now.' And then, sometimes you are in tears and you're like, 'You know, Nick wouldn't want me to be crying right now.' "

Cordero was hospitalised for COVID-19 in March, however suffered a number of complications including a blood clot in his leg (which led to an amputation), the need for a temporary pacemaker and discussions about a double lung transplant shortly before he passed. Kloots revealed that he had been in hospital for over 90 days before sadly passing on July 6.

She paid tribute to her husband on Instagram, writing, “God has another angel in heaven now. My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth.”

Cordero and Kloots have a one year old son together called Elvis. Kloots previously shared that she had shown a number of videos on her phone of Cordero to Elvis after he passed away, which led to her son “kissing the phone and kissing his dad.”

“My heart, of course, just melted. But in a way, it just made me feel so good because it made me feel like he recognises Nick. He knows who he is and he recognises his dad, even though it's been over three months,” she said.

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