Broadway
actor
Nick
Cordero's
wife
revealed
the
actor
had
his
right
leg
amputated
after
suffering
complications
from
Coronavirus.
She
took
to
her
Instagram
account
and
shared
the
ordeal
with
his
fans.
Amanda
Kloots,
on
late
Saturday,
wrote
on
Instagram,
"Made
it
out
of
surgery
alive
and
is
headed
to
his
room
to
rest
and
recover."
The
actor
was
reportedly
being
treated
with
blood
thinners
to
help
with
the
clotting
in
his
leg,
but
his
doctors
had
to
stop
the
treatment
because
it
was
causing
internal
bleeding.
Cordero
has
been
kept
in
the
intensive
care
unit
at
Cedars-Sinai
Medical
Center
in
Los
Angeles
from
March
31.
The
Tony
Award
nominee,
has
been
on
a
ventilator
and
unconscious
after
contracting
COVID-19.
"We
took
him
off
blood
thinners
but
that
again
was
going
to
cause
some
clotting
in
the
right
leg,
so
the
right
leg
will
be
amputated
today," Amanda
said
in
the
post
on
Saturday.
A
GoFundMe
fundraiser
organised
by
fans
and
family
has
managed
to
raise
over
$200,000.
Amanda
has
been
recording
daily
videos
of
her
and
their
10-month-old
son,
Elvis,
so
that
Cordero
can
see
them
once
he
wakes
up.
Cordero
has
been
seen
plays
like,
Waitress,
A
Bronx
Tale,
Bullets
Over
Broadway,
etc.,
for
which
he
received
a
Tony
nomination
for
best-featured
actor
in
a
musical.
He
was
also
a
part
of
the
Rock
of
Ages,
Going
in
Style,
Blue
Bloods,
and
Law
&
Order:
Special
Victims
Unit.
Other
Broadway
veterans
affected
by
the
Coronavirus
including
actors
Danny
Burstein,
Brian
Stokes
Mitchell,
Gavin
Creel,
Aaron
Tveit
and
Laura
Bell
Bundy
as
well
as
composer
David
Bryan.
Earlier,
Tony-winning
playwright
Terrence
McNally
passed
away
due
to
COVID-19.