- Tony award-nominated actor
Nick Cordero died on July 5 following complications fromCOVID-19 . - Throughout Cordero's hospitalization, his wife,
Amanda Kloots , updated her Instagram followers on his condition. - Following Cordero's death, Kloots is talking about how she and her 1-year-old son are navigating the grieving process.
- In a series of Instagram stories, she showed videos of the couple's son, Elvis, reacting to videos of his father.
- She also posted a letter she penned to her son, advising him to stay positive.
Since Broadway star Nick Cordero, 41, died of complications from COVID-19, his wife, Amanda Kloots, has been sharing memories of the late actor with her 555,000 Instagram followers.
Throughout Cordero's 3-month-long hospitalization, she updated her followers on her husband's condition and talked about how she was coping. Now, she's posting about her own battle to navigate parenthood and the grieving process.
On Instagram, Kloots also been talking to followers about her struggles with grief
In an Instagram story on Thursday evening, Kloots said she wanted to be open about acknowledging her own grief since she had also kept fans up to date on Cordero's condition before his death.
"I've talked about everything else about this process, so it feels oddly wrong not to talk about and acknowledge grief," she said in the video.
In her message, Kloots said that she was trying to slow down and simply experience her own loss.
"I think what's also really hard is that, you know, I'm a person that is a worker and a doer and a creator — and I press on, and I don't make excuses for that," she said. "But when you're grieving and when you're going through something like this... You feel, like, 'Am I allowing myself to grieve? Am I allowing myself to acknowledge what's happened and what's going on and what this least three months of my life have been?'"
Kloots ended her message by urging her followers to "stay safe" and wear masks. The CDC recommends that everyone wear face masks in public to slow the spread of the
"Just be responsible, " she said. "That's the only way that we will ever end this and that we will ever be able to move forward as a human race."
Kloots has also been sharing videos of her son as well as a letter she wrote to him about his father
In addition to talking about her own grief, Kloots has been sharing videos of her 1-year-old son Elvis reacting to videos of his father on Kloots' phone.
"I'm not even kidding you, he leans into the phone to give his dad a kiss and then kept going. I kept playing the video again, and he kept trying to press the button and he just kept going in and out kissing the phone, kissing his dad," she said.
Kloots said that seeing her son recognize his father, even after being separated while Cordero was in the hospital, was an emotional moment.
"My heart, of course, just melted," Kloots said. "But in a way, it feels so good because it made me feel like he recognizes Nick, you know, like, he knows who he is and he recognizes his dad, even though it's been over three months."
Kloots also showed followers on her Instagram stories a letter that she wrote to her son, explaining his father's death and encouraging him to stay positive.
"I miss him so much. I miss his voice, hugs, kisses, smiles, silliness. I wish quarantine would have had the three of us together every day," the note reads. "We must look for the silver linings in life, son. Life is never perfect, things happen we will never understand. Look for lessons, keep moving. Find the beauty. Love, Mommy."
Cordero was a Canadian actor who performed in Broadway shows such as "Rock of Ages," "Waitress," and "Bullets over Broadway," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Kloots and Cordero were married in 2017 after meeting in 2014.
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