Amanda Kloots reveals sign she received from late husband Nick Cordero before launch of her new podcast
He still supports her “Dreams.”
The day before she launched her new podcast “Good Grief,” an anxious Amanda Kloots spoke to her late husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero.
“I was driving around LA and I was feeling very nervous, and I was talking to Nick. I talk to him a lot in the car. And I was like, ‘Honey, I hope this is the right thing. Please just be with me . . . I hope people listen, I hope people like it,’” Kloots told The Post.
Then she got a message from heaven in the form of her favorite song.
“I end my speech, and ‘Dreams’ from The Cranberries comes on the radio,” she recalled, smiling.
“I literally was just like, ‘Thank you. That just gave me such a reassurance,’” she said.
“Yes, that could be blown off by anyone as like, ‘Well that wasn’t a sign.’ But to me, that’s a sign. And it is a sign from him,” she said.
Cordero, 41, died in July 2020 due to complications from COVID-19.
He entered the ICU in March 2020, where he was placed in a medically induced coma, eventually had his leg amputated, suffered two strokes and sepsis.
Kloots, 44, went live on Instagram every day during the 95 days Cordero spent in the hospital to lead a singalong of his song, “Live Your Life,” in the hopes that it would encourage him to wake up — and people from around the world joined in support.
“When you’re going through hard times in life . . . you need people that understand your pain . . . that will offer that help and guidance. And that was social media for me when Nick was in the ICU, ” said Kloots, who wears a diamond ring made from Cordero’s ashes.
The couple’s son, Elvis, was just 13 months old when his father died.
Kloots, a former Rockette, who moved to the Big Apple at 18 from her native Ohio, met Cordero when they were both in the musical “Bullets Over Broadway.”
The dancer-actress had just gotten divorced, but knew there was something special between them after they spoke until 2 a.m. at the now-shuttered Broadway hangout, Angus McIndoe.
“We were the last people in the bar and I left and I was like, ‘Oh gosh, I think I really like this guy,’” she recalled, laughing.
Kloots, who launched her podcast on Aug. 5, found that projects about grief were a hard sell.
“Grief is such a taboo topic still and people have a hard time talking about it because I think we’re used to burying our grief, but I really want to change that,” she said.
Guests on the show will include “mothers that have lost their children, fellow widows and widowers, and people that date widows and widowers,” she said.
Kloots, who founded the workout brand AK! Fitness, felt ready to date again a year and a half after Cordero died, and went public with her relationship with retired tennis player Justin Gimelstob last year.
“It wasn’t until after I did ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ that I felt comfortable being with and near a man again,” said Kloots, who competed on Season 30 of the series with pro dancer Alan Bersten.
She also released a memoir, aptly titled “Live Your Life,” and hopes it becomes a movie one day, with Adam Driver starring as Nick and Amanda Seyfried playing her.
“I met her recently and she was so lovely. I could see her being the Broadway girl, the fitness girl, and a mom,” she said.
The multi-hyphenate mom keeps Nick’s memory alive by talking about him every day with their son Elvis, who is now 7.
“I’ve never let his name die in the house.”