Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots reveals he’s tested negative for COVID-19

Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots received both good and bad news about his recovery on Friday as the Broadway star continues his battle against COVID-19. 

The 41-year-old actor had his leg amputated on Saturday after suffering blood flow issues and the mother-of-one is still waiting for him to wake up after he was taken out of sedation almost three weeks ago.

But on a brighter note, Amanda said in an update on Instagram stories that Nick now seems to be rid of the virus.  

‘Good news, dada had two negative COVID tests! Yay!’ She said in a video while holding their young son Elvis. 

‘Which means we think the virus is out of his system and now we’re just dealing with recovery and getting his body back from all the repercussions of the virus.’

She added: ‘Hopefully the virus is out of Nick. Thank God.’ 

It took three COVID-19 tests for Nick to finally test positive a few weeks ago, after he was initially misdiagnosed.

In a second video on Friday Amanda said she got some more news from the medical staff at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, where Nick has been since being admitted to the ICU at the end of March with pneumonia. 

Looking tearful in the selfie video, Amanda relayed a message she got from the doctor telling her Nick needs a pacemaker.

‘It looks like he had some irregular heart beating last night that scared them enough to want to place a pacemaker in Nick’s heart.’ she explained. 

‘His heart is functioning well but he has had dips in his heart rate for a little while now and this one last night apparently was enough that it requires them to do this procedure to put a temporary pacemaker in his heart, so that any time they move him or need to do some procedures in the future, they don’t have to worry about his heart rate dropping again.’ 

Over the weekend Amanda said she is ‘in a bit of a waiting game’ as her husband ‘should have woken up by now’ after having his leg amputated Saturday.

The Broadway star has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for over three weeks and Amanda, 38, revealed he had the leg removed after ‘blood flow issues’ there.

However she assured well-wishers that ‘there was nothing on the MRI that would show that he won’t wake up, which is amazing news.’

She added: ‘We are so happy about that, because that was a big worry for all of us. So great news on that. However, he hasn’t woken up and it’s been 12 days out of sedation. Today’s the 12th day.’

Amanda shared: ‘So, and the doctors do think that he should have woken up by now. However, they are saying that he was heavily sedated for 13 days before that.

She continued: ‘So we are just, you know, hoping and praying everyday that Nick wakes up, and putting that energy and positivity out there because I do believe he will. He’s on Nick time and when he wakes up we will all be here to celebrate it.’

Amanda went on: ‘In the meantime what the doctors are thinking about doing is slowly trying to get him off the ventilator, which would be awesome, and maybe put in a trache to help him be more comfortable, which would be great, and they are slowly reducing his medications and the machines he’s on.’

The fitness trainer shared: ‘So he’s completely off blood pressure medicine, which is great, and they are also trying to reduce the dialysis assistance, which is great. So as we are waiting for him to wake up, while he is still sleeping, they are slowly weaning his body off of assistance, which is just great, great news. Small little wins.’ 

A day after the amputation Amanda shared an Instagram video of herself and Nick dancing at their wedding and insisted ‘we WILL dance again!’

The pair twirled around the floor to Harry Connick, Jr.’s recording of It Had To Be You, with choreography by their pals Clyde Alves and Roby Hurder. 

‘I love dancing with you @nickcordero and we WILL dance again!’ wrote Amanda with the video, in which her husband’s Broadway training was on full display.

Amanda seemed close to tears with relief when she announced on her Insta Stories this Saturday that Nick survived the amputation.

She shared that ‘I just got a call from the surgeon – he made it through the surgery, which is really big because obviously his body is pretty weak. So he made it through the surgery and they’re taking him back to the room to recover and rest for the rest of the night so hopefully he’ll just kind of relax and rest. But good news!’

On Sunday she told well-wishers that ‘I just heard from the doctor and he’s doing good, guys. For Nick he’s doing the best that he possibly can right now, which is a huge hallelujah. Surgery went well. He’s recovering well after surgery. The wound looks okay. He didn’t lose a lot of blood. His blood pressure is okay. His heart is okay.’

She added: ‘His even, his internal bleeding has kind of calmed down. So everything seems to be kind of like calmed down, which is so great ’cause this has been such a roller coaster. My brother said the other day he was like: “This Nick is really putting us on a roller coaster,” and he is,’ she said with a weak chuckle.

‘Mental status is still super important and we’re still rooting for him to wake up,’ added Amanda, who has been giving regular updates on her husband’s health.

The couple’s friends Aimee Song, Jacey Duprie and Erin Silver started a GoFundMe for them this Saturday and donations have flooded in.

By 2pm PST on Sunday the fundraiser had raked in more than $299,000 of its $350,000 goal to help the couple with their expenses.

On Saturday as donations poured in Amanda appeared on her Insta Stories and fought back tears while thanking everyone for their generosity.

‘It’s just overwhelming. I really thank you so much. We have a new home that we’re renovating right now, so there’s gonna be some changes that need to be made and that is gonna really help us,’ she said.

”And there’s medical bills and you know what, we’re gonna get Nick the best rehab that we possibly can now for his leg.’

She marveled that ‘right now this is like a time where people don’t even have their jobs and you’re donating 10, 20 dollars, like I just like, that’s blowing me away.’

She revealed this Saturday that the Tony-nominated actor was having a leg amputated amid his fight with COVID-19. 

On Saturday she posted her latest message to well-wishers on her Insta Stories and informed them that ‘the right leg will be amputated today.’

‘So we are on day 18 of Nick being sedated in the ICU. It is April 18. We got some difficult news yesterday,’ she began.

‘Basically we’ve had issues in his right leg with clotting and getting blood down to his toes and it just isn’t happening with surgery and everything,’ Amanda shared.

‘So they had him on blood thinners for the clotting and unfortunately the blood thinners were causing some other issues – blood pressure and some internal bleeding in his intestines,’ she said.

‘So we took him off the blood thinners but that again was gonna cause some clotting in the right leg, so the right leg will be amputated today.’

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

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.