Broadway star Nick Cordero dies from covid battle

Broadway actor Nick Cordero died on Sunday from his battle with covid-19 multiple publications reported. He was 41.

“God has another angel in heaven now,” wife Amanda Kloots posted on her official Instagram account Sunday night. “My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth.”

Nick Cordero, the Tony-nominated actor who created leading roles in the Broadway musicals Bullets Over Broadway, Waitress, and A Bronx Tale, has died at age 41 after an arduous, lengthy battle with the coronavirus. https://t.co/sle0wvl9gE

— Playbill (@playbill) July 6, 2020

Kloots said the Canadian native spent 91 days in the hospital. He went to an emergency room with coronavirus symptoms on March 30 and was placed on a ventilator two days later.

He had no known pre-existing conditions, Kloots said, but he developed an infection that caused two mini-strokes and septic shock. Doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles also placed the Tony-nominated actor in a medically induced coma and amputated his right leg.

Last week, Kloots told “CBS This Morning” that Cordero would need a double lung transplant.

“A 99% chance that he would be needing that in order to live the kind of life that I know my husband would want to live,” Kloots said. “That is a long road away and a lot of things would have to line up in order for Nick to be a candidate for that.”

My heart is broken. I feel ill. Along with the entire Broadway community and the entire world, I mourn the loss of the incredible Nick Cordero and send my sincerest love and prayers to ⁦@amandakloots⁩ , Elvis & and entire family. RIP Nick. https://t.co/uBhjbrGfJE

— Josh Gad (@joshgad) July 6, 2020