(CBS News) Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who had been hospitalized for three months and had his leg amputated after contracting the coronavirus, has died, his wife, Amanda Kloots, said Sunday. He was 41.

“My darling husband passed away this morning,” Kloots said in an Instagram post. “He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth.”

“I am in disbelief and hurting everywhere,” Kloots added. “My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives without him.”

Last week, Kloots told “CBS This Morning” that Cordero would need a double lung transplant. 

“A 99% chance that he would be needing that in order to live the kind of life that I know my husband would want to live,” Kloots said. “That is a long road away and a lot of things would have to line up in order for Nick to be a candidate for that.”

She described to Gayle King how hard it was for her that she couldn’t do more than hold his hand.

“There’s so many cords everywhere,” she said. “I just want to jump in his bed and hug him and grab him and squeeze him, but you know, you have to be very careful with everything that’s going on, so I grab his hand and I massage his hand and I hold his hand, and I’m waiting for the day that he holds my hand back.”