close Video Amanda Kloots honors husband Nick Cordero in new memoir Widow of Broadway star Nick Cordero, Amanda Kloots, shares with ‘Fox and Friends’ how she’s learned to find the silver lining nearly one year since his passing from coronavirus. Amanda Kloots divulged how much her late husband's 95-day hospital stay cost her as he battled coronavirus in 2020. Broadway star Nick Cordero ultimately lost his life to COVID-19 after suffering mini-strokes, blood clots, septic infections, a tracheostomy and the amputation of his right leg.
"Nick was in the hospital for 95 days," Kloots said during an appearance on SoFi's "Richer Lives " podcast. "His whole body was being run by machines. The ventilator alone was $3,000 a day .
.. on top of the 20 other machines that were running his body.
" "When I heard that, I immediately was like, ‘What am I going to do?’ So you can imagine what the total bill was," she added. AMANDA KLOOTS HONORS LATE HUSBAND NICK CORDERO IN NEW MEMOIR, SAYS HE ‘TRULY JUST LOVED LIFE’ Nick Cordero's wife revealed how expensive the late Broadway star's 95-day hospital visit was, following his death. (Noam Galai) Despite Cordero's medical setbacks during his over three-month stay, his death came as a surprise to Kloots.
"I never thought I was going to lose my husband," she explained. "Up until the day he passed away, I really thought we were going to make it. So I don’t think the financial magnitude really really hit me until he passed away and call.