It never will.”įace to face, Kloots is warm, unguarded, and candid, with a demeanor that is fiercer and more blazingly intense than her sunny online persona would suggest. My parents were around him, my sister, our friends.and nobody else got it,” she says, shaking her head. “We’ll never know how he got it or why he got it,” she tells me. After all, he was young and had no preexisting conditions. During the two Zoom meetings we have together, I ask Kloots, who never tested positive for the virus, if she knows how or why her husband contracted such a severe case. Kloots, meanwhile, chronicled the arduous, emotional ordeal on Instagram, where she maintains a prolific presence. “I had no idea,” she writes, “that that would be the last time I would ever see him as him.”Ĭordero would spend 95 days in the hospital, most of them in a coma, before passing away due to complications from COVID at the age of 41. On the morning of March 30, Kloots dropped him off at the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Days later, he was struggling to breathe. But when Cordero fainted while changing their baby Elvis’s diaper-all 6 feet 5inches, 225 pounds of him crashing to the ground with a thud-Kloots realized something serious was going on and took him to urgent care, where he was told he likely had pneumonia. Cordero, an extrovert, was prone to depression, and the musical he was starring in, Rock of Ages, had just been canceled. Kloots recalls feeling “a little frustrated” by his lethargy-they had a nine-month-old baby she had just launched an online subscription service for her classes-but she chalked it up to the massive changes of the moment. The following morning, Cordero began complaining of exhaustion, but he didn’t have the cough, body aches, or fever commonly associated with the virus. The city announced its stay-at-home order two days later, on Kloots’s thirty-eighth birthday. The couple landed in Los Angeles on March 17. Like most of the country, she and Cordero thought the hysteria seemed “overhyped.” It is poignant to read her analyzing her errors in hindsight. In her new book, Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero, out this month from Harper, Kloots explains her mindset at the time. While Kloots was reluctant to leave her life of 19 years in New York, where she had family and a thriving fitness business, Cordero had hopes of breaking into the music industry in L.A. A few months prior, the couple had purchased a small three-bedroom fixer-upper in Laurel Canyon. In mid-March of last year, with coronavirus cases spiking around the country, Amanda Kloots, a fitness instructor and online influencer, and her husband, the actor Nick Cordero, flew to Los Angeles from New York City.
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