In addition to being a gifted actor and singer, Nick Cordero was also a composer who had been singing an original song, "Live Your LIfe," as part of a cabaret show. As USA Today recounts, as Cordero's illness worsened, Kloots urged fans to sing the song at 3 p.m. every day as a show of support. The day after he passed, Kloots sang it one final time: "I kept telling him that he had the whole world singing his song, knowing who he was and what kind of an amazing person he was." The song is part of a memorial album, Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below, released in September, with proceeds going to help Amanda and Elvis (per Broadway.com).
Kloots, a former professional dancer turned fitness trainer, is slowly learning to adjust to life without the husband she loved. On Thanksgiving, she posted on Instagram, "It would be easy...to [count] my losses, but I'm choosing to count my blessings. [Elvis] is one of them." She recently posted a video discussion about "firsts" with her friend Zoey, also a young widow. She is also collaborating with her sister, Anna Kloots, on a memoir to be published by HarperCollins next June. Titled Live Your Life: My Story of Living and Losing Nick Cordero, it will chronicle their romance, the agonizing weeks of Nick's illness, and her courageous efforts to heal and find meaning in her loss.