Amanda Kloots has been cruelly trolled after she shared on Friday that she's started dating again.
Her announcement comes weeks after she and her two-year-old son Elvis marked one year since her husband - Broadway star Nick Cordero died from COVID-19. He was diagnosed with coronavirus in March 2020. After more than three months in the hospital, he sadly died at age 41.
39-year-old fitness instructor–turned–TV host Kloots revealed that she was a total "neophyte" when it came to dating because she met both of her husbands at work on musical theater productions.
Kloots was previously married to stage actor David Larsen before eventually tying the knot with Cordero in 2017.
"Obviously with Nick, we had a child," The co-host of The Talk revealed during Friday's episode.
"I’ve never actually had to date."
She found the experience of meeting new people intimidating now that she's in her late 30s.
"I just started dating again and it is so crazy to be dating for the first time at 39 years old," Amanda admitted. "And it’s quite terrifying and really out of your element, and it’s just hard. It is hard."
When her co-host Elaine Welteroth asked how things were going so far, Kloots was very coy.
"It’s all wonderful," she said.
"It’s wonderful people I’m meeting, and it’s been a great process so far. But I’ll just say it’s very hard without getting into too many details."
Earlier this month, the new TV host remembered her late husband Nick Cordero on the one-year anniversary of his death.
"Today hurts, there is no other way around it. One year ago you left us and became our angel in heaven," she wrote to her 669K Instagram followers while posting a montage of loving scenes between the former couple.
Kloots has received a wave of support from friends and fans after she shared her relationship status. But some cruel trolls blasted the mom-of-one for "moving on too quickly."
"For someone so devastated with daily updates about his illness, death, and her ongoing grief, she certainly turned it around quickly," one person wrote online.
"She kept on and on about he was her only love, and she was devastated. Guess she's over that now!" a second added.
"I knew when she recently referred to their life together as her 'Nick era' that she was definitely dating already. Kind of an insulting way to talk about him, just a phase in her life. Pretty quick for someone who made such a show over the loss of her soulmate," a shady comment read.
But some fans came to Kloots defense.
"Just because her husband died does not mean she does not deserve happiness. As she knows too well...life is short," a comment read.
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