Amanda Kloots: Son asking about more about father

"The Talk" co-host Amanda Kloots, widow of Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, an early high-profile fatality of the coronavirus pandemic, says the couple's 3-year-old son has begun asking more often "where his dad is."

"I feel like that part of grief is going to start happening, where I have to now face his grief after dealing with mine for the last two years — helping Elvis understand at this young age where dad is, why dad doesn't live with us, what happened to dad," said Kloots, 40, on the Oct. 18 episode of the podcast "The Important Things with Bobbi Brown," according to a partial transcript in People magazine. "And it's been really, really, really hard."

The former Rockettes dancer and fitness maven went on to say, "You feel guilty every time you leave the house and he's crying. It's actually been really hard lately." Elvis, who was a year old when Cordero died, "says that he does" remember his father. "I don't know if that's because we watch so many videos together of Nick or because I talk about Nick so much. But he does, he does say that and I love it. But it makes me wonder."

Cordero, who earned a 2014 Tony nomination for his supporting role as a 1920s gangster with sophisticated theater taste in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway," died July 5, 2020, in Los Angeles, three months after being hospitalized with COVID-19. He was 41.

When Elvis inquires of him, "I have said, 'Dada lives in heaven with Jesus but he's all around us all the time. And we can always talk to him, we can listen to him sing and he's watching over us all the time.' That's what I've said so far."

On Sunday, Kloots posted an Instagram video of Elvis and a toy guitar, playfully trying to sing the 1993 Tears for Fears song "Break It Down Again." "I love this kid more than words can say," she wrote. Commented "Bullets Over Broadway" star Zach Braff, "This is the cutest thing. Rocking out to 'Tears For Fears.' His Daddy has a giant smile on his face."