Amanda Kloots is opening up like never before about Nick Cordero's COVID battle and their marriage in her emotional new book.
, the 39-year-old fitness instructor candidly opens up about both the happiest moments in her life, and the most devastating.
While her then-husband was away and they had decided to end their marriage, Kloots and Cordero built a friendship, which started in earnest when they spoke at a bar one night after work. "Nick and I were very different people. Nick always said 'too different.' We didn’t see the world, marriage, and family the same," she writes, pointing to Cordero's love for socializing and"wild past," as opposites to her"straight-laced" nature.
"It was a lot of massive life changes in a short period of time, but it was everything I had dreamed of," she writes. "I had the strangest feeling it would be a very long time before we would see New York again," she writes."… We made it back to California. We felt so safe. We had successfully packed up our life, moved everything, said our goodbyes, and flown cross-country during a pandemic. The scary part was finally over. We are going to be okay, we thought. Now I look back and think we should never have gone to New York.
Things changed nearly a week in, when Cordero fainted while changing Elvis' diaper. It was the first time that she felt"a little scared." At the time, Cordero"was convinced" he had COVID-19, but Kloots doubted it because of his apparent lack of symptoms. "I didn’t understand the seriousness of that decision. Neither did Nick," she continues."April 1 at four a.m. was the last time I heard my husband’s voice."
"I could just listen to positive phone calls and take away from them the message, 'He is improving,'" Kloots adds."... There wasn’t a bone in my body that didn’t believe that he was coming home soon."Everything began sinking in on the morning of April 10, when Kloots got a call from Cordero's doctor.
"This day didn’t feel real. Everything had changed so quickly, and I didn’t understand how or why," she writes."Yesterday morning all was well, and he was about to come off the ventilator. Now he needed machines to support every major organ in order to keep him alive. I felt so helpless and terrified."
The choice to consent was ultimately"easy," though, because"it was his life, or his leg." Still, Kloots writes,"Until this day, I believed wholeheartedly that he would leave the hospital just as he had entered it. Now I knew he would not." Because Cordero was set to undergo a life-threatening surgery, Kloots was allowed to visit him in the hospital for the first time.
After the surgery, Kloots started to get permission to visit Cordero sporadically. It's something that the huge social media following she'd gained had been rooting for all along, but she wasn't allowed to share the news publicly.
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