“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…