“My dear husband passed away this (Sunday) morning. He was surrounded by the love of his family, singing and praying as he gently left this land,” wrote Amanda Kloots on Instagram.
“I am incredulous and suffering. My heart is broken, since I cannot imagine our lives without him.”
“Elvis and I will miss him in everything we do, every day,” he added, referring to the couple’s one-year-old son.
Kloots had documented her husband’s struggle with the coronavirus on social media. He said he had battled the disease for 95 days.
After almost three weeks in intensive care, the Cordero’s doctors were forced to amputate his right leg because a clot had impeded blood flow, another dangerous complication of the coronavirus.
Cordero had been in a coma for months, but regained consciousness in early May, able to move and communicate only through his eyes.
According to Kloots, he had lost 65 pounds (29 kilograms) due to muscle atrophy and in mid-June he was still unable to move or speak.
He had been waiting for a double lung transplant when he died.
Cordero was known for his roles in the musicals ‘Waitress’, ‘A Bronx Tale’ and ‘Bullets Over Broadway’, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
He had accumulated admirers around the world through his wife’s chronicle of her battle with the coronavirus.
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