During a 2022 appearance on the “Not Skinny but Not Fat” podcast, Amanda Kloots opened up about the death of her husband, Nick Cordero. “I will tell you that it does feel like a time warp,” she said. Kloots explained that even two years later she is still adjusting to Cordero’s loss. “It doesn’t feel real, it sometimes just feels like Nick has been gone on a job and he’ll be coming home soon. I can’t, you know, it’s so weird to think that he’s gone a lot of times,” she said. “If I look at pictures during that time, I don’t even recognize the situation or myself.”
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Kloots claimed one of the biggest adjustments has been figuring out how to function as a single parent. She touched on the difficulty of talking to her son, Elvis, about the loss of his dad. “Right now I’m just keeping it very basic and very honest,” she said of the times Elvis has asked about his father. As delicate as the subject may be, the 40-year-old has made a concerted effort to ensure that Elvis feels close to Cordero, especially through his dad’s love of music, which she plays for Elvis every morning. At night, they share some quiet time with Cordero’s memory, too. “I make sure that Elvis knows that when we go to bed every night, we hug Nick’s pillow,” she said during an interview with Fox. “We talk to Dad and tell him about our day.”
