Amanda Kloots With Kelly Rizzo Discusses Grief and Connecting With Their Husbands

On Wednesday, May 11, Amanda Kloots sat with Kelly Rizo to discuss grief.

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Kloots lost her late husband, Nick Cordero, to COVID-19 complications in July 2020.

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The mother-of-one who welcomed their son Elvis born in 2019, likened grieving to peeling an onion.

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Kloots candidly admitted, "Grief never ends, and it's okay.'"

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The fitness instructor spoke about receiving signs from her late husband when she asked for them.

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Kloots asked Cordero to send her a sign to believe and soon saw the word highlighted on a signboard.

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Rizo, who lost her husband, Bob Saget, in January, gushed on social media that the discussion on grief was "cathartic."

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Kloots wrote a memoir about her story with Cordero titled after one of his songs, "Live Your Life."

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"The Talk" co-host wants Adam Driver to play her late husband in the memoir's biopic.

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