Nick Cordero’s son Elvis just spoke his first words ― and the moment deserves an encore.
The 1-year-old child of the Broadway star, who died this month from coronavirus at age 41, says “right there” in a clip of him recognizing a picture of his pop on a photo lamp.
“Elvis said his first words today!!” Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, wrote of the footage she posted to Instagram Sunday. “Listen closely! He pointed at Nick in our new picture light and said ‘right there.’ He hasn’t seen Nick since March 30th. The fact that he still knows who his Dada is, point to him and give him a kiss to me is amazing.”
The Tony-nominated actor from “Bullets over Broadway” died July 5 after a monthslong struggle with COVID-19. While in ICU at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, Cordero had his right leg amputated because of blood clots, endured septic shock, underwent kidney dialysis and had a temporary pacemaker inserted, among setbacks.
“Where’s Dada?” Kloots asks Elvis in the clip. The boy then kisses his father’s photo and laughs. “Right there,” he says.
He then grabs the lamp. Show-stopping runs in the family.
Kloots, a former Radio City Rockette who chronicled Cordero’s tragic ordeal on social media, recently revealed she and Elvis are moving into the home she and her late husband bought before he got sick.
“I’m not expecting this to be easy, in fact I think it will be very hard, but I’m going into it knowing I need to be strong,” she wrote. “I have to find my new normal, at least whatever that is for Elvis and I right now. I know Nick will be with us.”
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