Amanda Kloots Shares About the Intimate Memorial Ceremony For Her Late Husband Nick Cordero!
A private and small memorial ceremony was conducted for the late Broadway actor Nick Cordero last weekend by his spouse Amanda and she described the event as “beautiful and perfect.”
“We had a small memorial yesterday with close family and friends. I said, ‘Nick would have wanted this to be a celebration. Let’s try to laugh, share great stories, and sing for him and to his memory.’ He would have loved it. It was beautiful and perfect. His spirit was definitely there,” stated Amanda Kloots on her Instagram with a picture of herself and her son.
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Nick who was recently nominated for Tony for the show Bullets Over Broadway died on July 5th post fighting with the deadly COVID-19 and he was 41.
Amanda also wrote that in the ceremony the attendees listened to the track “I am Here” from ‘The Color Purple Broadway’ in remembrance of the date they both had a few years back.
She continued: “Nick and I saw this show on Broadway years ago and we left the theater in tears, speechless. As it was being played last night the lyrics in the second half of the song hit me hard,” she revealed, admitting that she now feels “scared” about her “new normal,” and “of the pain, the loss and being strong enough to get through it.”
“But, I know Nick is up above routing for me, believing in me and hoping for me. He wants me to LIVE this new life and he wants me to be the best version of myself for our son,” Kloots stated. Nick and Amanda welcomed their son, last June.
Further, she said: “I promised him in the hospital that I would try to do that. So, when I heard these lyrics yesterday I thought, ‘Ok. When I’m doubting if I can get through this, I’m playing this song. It will be my motto.’”
She also expressed how she has decided to be strong in spite of the lone “long journey and a down road” she never imagined to be in.
