Nick Cordero

Our guest today is Amanda Klutz.

In 2020, Amanda's husband, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, became critically ill with COVID.

For 95 days as he remained in the hospital, Amanda bravely shared their story with millions of people around the world.

Nick died that July at just 41 years old, leaving Amanda to raise their one-year-old son, Elvis, while confronting a future she had never imagined.

Let's just put that in the forefront.

I cried last week on our wedding anniversary.

She chronicled that experience in her memoir, Live Your Life, my story of loving and losing Nick Cordero.

I'm at a certain point with grief where I appreciate it.

[laughs] Well, on a, on a, on a non-dissing me note, it says, "Hooray for health heroes," because, um, I believe in that.

Our friend Amanda Kloots, who is the widow of, uh, the late, uh, Nick Cordero, has been selling all these awesome shirts, um, hooray for different things, and she gave me Hooray for Health Heroes because she knows I love health heroes.

Love it.

And, uh, and to give her a plug, I'm sure...

And, you know, hopefully, you know, we've been safe.

I lost my dear friend, Nick Cordero during this, and it's been, really hellacious few months, um, with that, but having my daughter and my mom to look after who's 85 now, she'll be saying that, you know, um, you know, having my daughter in distance learning, um, was very rewarding and was a nice thing to have, like, a schedule, you know, to get us through the day.

Yeah.

Knowing my friend was, uh, was suffering so much in his family and, and, you know, I just can't believe it's been like a month and a half now and, you know, we're not through this and there's so much chaos and so much social injustice.