Canadian broadway star Nick Cordero dies of COVID-19
After a months-long struggle with COVID-19 that resulted in complications like extensive lung damage and an amputated leg, Canadian-born Broadway actor Nick Cordero has sadly died.
Amanda Kloots, the wife of the Bullets Over Broadway and A Bronx Tale performer, shared the news on Sunday over Instagram, where she had also been chronicling Cordero's battle with the infectious disease over the last 95 days.
"We sang [Nick's song Live Your Life] to him today, holding his hands. As I sang the last line to him, 'they’ll give you hell but don’t you light them kill your light not without a fight. Live your life,' I smiled because he definitely put up a fight," she wrote.
The hashtag #WakeUpNick gained traction back at the beginning of April, when Cordero was first induced and put onto a ventilator.
His body went through infection, septic shock, and a leg amputation before he finally became conscious again in mid-May. But by then he was reportedly extremely weak and had such severe lung damage that he was facing the prospect of needing a double-lung transplant to survive.
The Tony-nominated Cordero, who was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, was only 41 years old, and his death is one of many that serve to show how terrifying and tragic the health crisis really is. He leaves behind his wife and one-year-old son, Elvis.
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