Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who had leg amputated, gets lung infection, wife says

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Photo credit FILE - In this April 10, 2014 file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after party for the opening night of "Bullets Over Broadway" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway, will have to have his right leg amputated after suffering complications from the coronavirus, his wife Amanda Koots said on Instagram, Saturday, April 18, 2020. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Tony-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who had his right leg amputated earlier this month after contracting coronavirus, went into septic shock Monday, his wife Amanda Kloots said.

"Hey everybody, just a quick Nick update, we had kind of a bit of a rough day yesterday," Kloots said in her Instagram stories Tuesday. "Nick ended up getting an infection in his lungs that went into his blood, so he went into a little bit of a septic shock. The cause of that was some infection in his lungs, so they went in and completely cleaned out his lungs, which was great. They gave him some blood pressure medication to help his blood pressure come back up."