Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots gives update on COVID-19 ‘fight’… as Florence Pugh lends support

Amanda Kloots teared up on Monday while sharing an update on her husband of two years, Tony nominee Nick Cordero, who’s battling COVID-19 at the ICU in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

‘He’s doing okay guys. He’s fighting,’ the 38-year-old fitness trainer said via Instastory from their Laurel Canyon home.

‘FaceTiming him has been wonderful, for me at least. Me and his mom have gotten to FaceTime him now a couple times. It’s very special and I can see him fighting [while unconscious]. Today is a big day and we really need some heart and lung strength to come through…so keep sending up those prayers, guys.’ 

Amanda then recalled a romantic story from when they started dating in 2014 about how the Canadian 41-year-old secretly mastered jumping rope in her honor while he was visiting his sick father in Ontario.

‘He told me, “When I was taking care of my dad, I would go to the gym every morning and I taught myself to jump rope so I could win you back,”‘ Kloots smiled.

‘I love this story, obviously because it’s about jumping rope, but just a cute story to give you a little insight into what a special guy he is and who he is and the kind of heart he has.’

Nick is on a ventilator, a dialysis machine, and he had to be resuscitated on Saturday after undergoing emergency surgery to alleviate a blockage of blood flow to his leg. 

‘I got to FaceTime with him today it was the first time I’d seen him since dropping him off at the ER 12 days ago,’ The Irishman dancer revealed on Sunday.

‘I told him he had to fight. I told him he is strong and can do this…The doctors are still concerned about his right leg and we need him to start making small responses off sedation. These are the next two goals that need to happen.’

Amanda and Cordero – who are parents to 10-month-old son Elvis – originally met while performing in the musical Bullets Over Broadway together at the St. James Theatre in Manhattan.

Kloots has urged her 98K Instagram followers to ‘keep playing and dancing’ to Elvis Presley’s 1957 song Got a Lot o’ Livin’ to Do in honor of the Mob Town star. 

Oscar nominee Florence Pugh took note and shared a video on Monday of herself dancing up a storm to Got a Lot o’ Livin’ to Do and asking her 1.4M followers to do the same.

‘I was wondering if I could ask a huge, huge favor of you all,’ the British 24-year-old said via Instastory.

‘Our good friends Nick Cordero and Amanda Kloots are suffering at the moment. Nick has been battling coronavirus for the past two weeks and he’s been in critical condition for the past week and he’s in hospital every day fighting for his life. And it’s really f***ing scary.’

The Ohio native – who used to be a Radio City Rockette – has launched a $9.99/month subscription service for her workout videos via her website as a way to make money.