Nick Cordero’s widow, Amanda Kloots, has revealed that her first dates after his death were with men who, like her, had lost their spouses.
Amanda, 40, rose to public fame in 2020 as she provided regular Instagram updates about her late husband’s battle with COVID-19, which resulted in months of complications before he died at the age of just 41.
Now on the Cheryl Burke podcast deep divingshe said dating widowers “helped break through that awkwardness” of having “a lot of emotional baggage.”
Candor: Nick Cordero’s widow, Amanda Kloots, has revealed that her first dates after his death were with men who, like her, had lost their spouses.
Since Nick’s death, Amanda has published a memoir about him with her sister and has become one of the hosts of the daytime series The Talk.
He’s also raising her and Nick’s three-year-old son, Elvis, who was just over a year old when he lost his father in heartbreaking fashion.
Amanda admitted to Cheryl that “it took me a while to feel good” about possibly dating again after her husband’s death.
She ‘dipped her toe in the water’ and ‘the first two dates I went on were with other widowers, so that immediately helped break that awkwardness of, ‘I come in with a lot of emotional baggage.’
That’s how they were: Amanda appears in 2017 with Nick, who in 2020 fought a battle against COVID-19 that resulted in months of complications before dying at the age of just 41.
‘You don’t have to explain yourself,’ Cheryl offered, and Amanda agreed: ‘Yeah! You don’t have to explain yourself.
The appeal of widowers was also that ‘I just don’t have time for bulls***!’ and would rather ‘get dirty and talk about life experiences’.
Those experiences, Amanda feels, are “what makes everyone interesting and I want to figure out who you are now from that and, you know, that growth from that horrible low place,” she shared.
“On the other hand, when you sit down and talk about losing your loved one and you start crying with someone, then it almost kills a lot of the romantic vibes.”
Breaking it down: Now, on Cheryl Burke’s Diving Deep podcast, she said dating widowers “helped break through that awkwardness” of having “a lot of emotional baggage.”
During the interview, she also responded to trolls who criticized her online for re-entering the dating scene a year after losing Nick.
Her response to the backlash was to “interview other widows live on Instagram” to “put a face on what people were calling horrible.”
Amanda claimed that “the moment I did that, everything stopped” and explained that her method of handling recoil is to “address it.”
She feels that her critics realized: ‘Oh, she’s trying to move on, it’s very difficult, oh, she’s having a very difficult time doing it, she’s not, oh, I thought that was like being horrible and she’s already married. and secretly engaged and pregnant.
‘Loving and Losing Nick Cordero’: Since Nick’s death, Amanda publishes a memoir with her sister and becomes one of the presenters of the daytime series The Talk
In response to the trolls, he said: ‘No guys no I’m literally alone I go for coffee and cry all the way home and cry all the way home and two days later. that. Does that make you feel better? Can you judge me less now?
He announced that he would be dating again in July 2021, confessing to The Talk that the endeavor was “pretty scary” and “difficult.”
Amanda, who before Nick was married to a stage actor named David Larsen, said of her romantic past: ‘I met both of my husbands doing Broadway shows. First we became friends, then we got married.
She mused: ‘Actually, I’ve never dated. And I just started dating again and it’s crazy to be dating for the first time at 39.
Doting mother: She’s also raising her and Nick’s three-year-old son, Elvis, who was just over a year old when he heartbreakingly lost his father.
Nick was hospitalized with COVID-19 in March 2020 and ultimately tested negative for the virus, but still suffered a series of health complications and died on July 5.
He spent 95 days in the hospital and had a series of medical crises that included punctured lungs, two mini-strokes, and a blood clot that led to the amputation of one leg.
Shortly after Nick’s death, Amanda shared a glimpse of a letter she had written to Elvis about the tragedy that had befallen her family.
‘I miss him a lot. I miss her voice, hugs, kisses, smiles, nonsense. I wish the quarantine had been the three of us together every day,” she wrote.