One year after dropping off her husband Nick Cordero at the hospital, Amanda Kloots revealed Tuesday that the two had little contact before he entered the building.
“With COVID restrictions in place, we didn’t know which entrance was even open, so I left him on the corner,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “We didn’t hug. We didn’t kiss goodbye. We couldn’t. It was clear he was sick with something and we couldn’t take any risks. I don’t even know if he said bye to Elvis or if we said, ‘I love you.’”
Cordero, a Broadway star, died from COVID-19 on July 5 at age 41. His death came more than two months after Kloots and their young son, Elvis, left him on the corner outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She said they expected to see him again shortly after.
“I told him I’d stay nearby and to call me when he’s done. We walked to The Grove to kill time. We thought it would be a couple hours,” the “Talk” co-host wrote. “That was the last day I saw Nick as Nick.”
Throughout the pandemic, Kloots has been open about her pain and suffering since March 30, 2020. She’s encouraged other people to take the virus seriously.
“To anyone, who like me, that dropped their person off at the hospital never to really ‘see’ them again, I’m thinking and praying for you today. This day is just hard, there’s no other way to say it.”
