Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. There’s no amount of reps fitness teacher and health aficionado Amanda Kloots could’ve done to prepare for the untimely death of her husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero, due to COVID-19 in 2020. "I tell everybody to get life insurance," Kloots told Fox News Digital exclusively after teaching one of her AK Fitness classes at The Shade Hotel to celebrate Skechers’ new apparel store opening in Manhattan Beach and the Skechers X Amanda Kloots collaboration.

"The Talk" co-host documented her husband’s lengthy battle with COVID-19 on social media after the couple moved across the country in March 2020 from New York City to Los Angeles to begin their dream life together with their then-9-month-old son, Elvis. But after 95 days in the hospital, dealing with complications like mini-strokes, blood clots, septic infections, a tracheostomy and even the amputation of his right leg, Cordero lost his battle on July 5, 2020. Kloots told Fox News Digital that she tells everyone to get life insurance following the death of her husband.

(Alex Jay) Broadway star Nick Cordero died in 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. (Walter McBride/WireImage) AMANDA KLOOTS HONORS LATE HUSBAND NICK CORDERO IN NEW MEMOIR, SAYS HE ‘TRULY JUST LOVED LIFE’ Looking back, Kloots says she initially shrugged off her father's suggestion to get life insurance. "I was like, ‘Dad, OK, we’ll get life insurance,’ and Nick and I were so .