Nick Cordero, Broadway actor who battled COVID-19, has died at age 41, wife says – CBS News

Broadway actor Chop Cordero, who had been hospitalized for three months and had his leg amputated after contracting the coronavirus, has died, his spouse, Amanda Kloots, said Sunday. He used to be 41.

“My darling husband passed away this morning,” Kloots said in an Instagram put up. “He used to be surrounded in esteem by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth.”

“I am in disbelief and hurting in every single blueprint,” Kloots added. “My heart is broken as I will no longer imagine our lives without him.”

Last week, Kloots urged “CBS This Morning” that Cordero would need a double lung transplant. 

“A 99% likelihood that he would be wanting that in relate to dwell the extra or less life that I know my husband would are seeking to dwell,” Kloots said. “That’s a protracted road away and loads of things would dangle to line up in relate for Chop to be a candidate for that.”

She described to Gayle King how laborious it used to be for her that she could perhaps perhaps well no longer attain bigger than withhold his hand.

“There could be so many cords in every single blueprint,” she said. “I simply are seeking to soar in his bed and hug him and snatch him and squeeze him, however , attempt to be very careful with all the pieces that’s occurring, so I snatch his hand and I therapeutic massage his hand and I withhold his hand, and I am expecting the day that he holds my hand help.”

Cordero used to be hospitalized three months within the past for what scientific doctors before all the pieces said used to be pneumonia, however Kloots posted on Instagram on April 1 that they believed he had been misdiagnosed and had COVID-19.

After he used to be sedated within the ICU for 18 days, his leg used to be amputated. He additionally went into septic shock, had a lung an infection and had a non everlasting pacemaker place in. 

Kloots described the usaand downs of his illness as the “vicious ICU dance circle.”

“One part goes correct after which yet any other part goes spoiled and that part that used to be spoiled goes correct however then the part that used to be correct goes spoiled,” she said.

Kloots, a pale Broadway dancer who is now a movie superstar coach, has been the usage of her Instagram legend to put up updates on Cordero’s condition.

Cordero starred within the musical adaptation of the Woody Allen movie “Bullets Over Broadway” in 2014, for which he earned a Tony nomination. He had additionally appeared beforehand on Broadway in “Rock of Ages,” “Waitress” and “A Bronx Story: The Musical.”

Cordero and Kloots dangle a one-year-used son, Elvis. All over his fight with COVID-19, Kloots inspired followers to deliver Cordero’s tune “Are residing Your Life” day to day at 3 p.m. ET.