‘I never expected to become the Covid widow’
Broadway start Amanda Kloots on the devastating loss of her husband early on in the pandemic
18 July 2021 • 5:00am
Amanda Kloots: 'I found that I wanted to be the bigger person and try to help other people through my own life experience'
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Amanda Kloots doesn’t like to think in if onlys. She would drive herself mad that way. But there is one regret that keeps resurfacing.
“That first week when my husband was just lying there on the couch feeling tired…” The 39-year-old US TV host closes her eyes for a second, the pain prompted by that flashback to March 2020 now familiar enough to be wearying. “And I think to myself: ‘If only we had taken him to the emergency room, then and there’.”