Amanda Kloots wrote of her husband, Nick Cordero on Sunday (July 06, 2020), โGod has another angel in heaven now,โ announcing the devastating news of the Broadway starโs death at 41 due to coronavirus complications after 95 days in the hospital.
Corderoโs battle for life, highlighted by Kloots on Instagram with frequent updates that featured friends sending daily versions of his Rock of Ages song โLive Your Life,โ showed the immense love for the actor who was the father of a 1-year-old son, Elvis.
Nickโs best friend and former co-star in Bullets Over Broadway, Zach Braff, is revealing some heartbreaking details about the Broadway actorโs final moments.

โJust for clarityโs sake, he didnโt have COVID-19 anymore,โ Zach said on his podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends With Zach + Donald, which he co-hosts with Donald Faison. โWhat COVID did to Nick is what it does to a lot of people, it comes in and wreaks havoc on your body. Then it leaves and you donโt have it anymore, but youโre left with what the doctors called โlungs that look like Swiss cheese.โโ
โEven to live he wouldโve needed a full double-lung transplant and you only get those if youโre healthy in all other ways. So the machines were really truly keeping him alive,โ Zach said. โHis blood pressure wasnโt strong enough so the tips of all his fingers and toes were blackening and they would have had to have been removed had he lived.โ
Nick was on dialysis for his kidneys, a ventilator for his lungs, and would have needed a pacemaker too.
โHe just deteriorated, deteriorated, deteriorated, until the point where they put him on the ventilator and then he never came back,โ he added. โHe kind of woke up for a little bit and there was some exciting moments where they would say, โNick if you can hear us look up,โ and he would do that, but he wouldnโt do it all the time. It was only occasionally.โ
Kloots stayed with Braff and his girlfriend Florence Pugh during the ordeal but he was unable to be with her in person due to social distancing. โThis is how fucking tragic it was โ she would be 10 feet away from us, Florence and I, and sobbing, and we couldnโt go hug her. We would literally stand 10 feet away from her and watch our friend sobbing.โ

His wife Amanda โwas never able to see him fully conscious again.โ
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