The heartbroken girlfriend of Adam Schlesinger has revealed how she rushed to the hospital in the course of the night time to be with the late composer earlier than he died.
Alexis Morley mentioned she was capable of let his dad and mom and two daughters say goodbye on her telephone’s Facetime earlier than he handed away aged 52 on April 1 after contracting coronavirus.
Breaking her silence, she posted the ultimate picture of the couple collectively in upstate New York on March 15 – simply days earlier than Schlesinger fell unwell.
The image reveals the pair strolling within the winter sunshine on ‘Poets’ Stroll’ in Pink Hook, NY, taken by their pal David Watts, and Morley recalled how that night time Schlesinger, who wrote the Oscar-nominated track “That Factor You Do!” for Tom Hanks’ directorial debut – woke at 4am with a excessive fever.
She wrote: “We spent such a candy week collectively, our roles form of reversed as a result of normally Adam was the one to handle me. I attempted to maintain him comfy, nurse him again to well being, as we waited for the fever to interrupt.
“We had been certain it might, identical to some other crappy flu. However 7 days later issues received worse as an alternative of higher and I drove him to the hospital. I wasn’t allowed to stroll in with him.
“I drove residence alone via a snowstorm terrified (the primary time I’d pushed a automotive in years), however we spent the night time texting, making cute jokes, and feeling optimistic. He saved telling me how a lot he cherished me and thanked me for saving his life. The subsequent morning he was intubated and I by no means received to listen to his voice once more.”
The “Fountains of Wayne” band member, who additionally received Emmys for his work on TV hit “Loopy Ex-Girlfriend”, handed away in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Morley added: “After 10 days of me and his really unbelievable household and pal group drawing on each useful resource attainable attempting to assist, I received a 3am name from the hospital telling me he wasn’t going to make it.
“I requested if there was any manner I may see him, and so they made particular preparations for me to be allowed into the covid unit. It was a low-lit, grim, heavy place, the medical staff and I all hidden beneath layers and layers of PPE.”
She mentioned she managed to place him via to his household, and mentioned how: “Adam regarded candy, peaceable, stunning. I’m so grateful that I received to spend that one final hour with him — and that I used to be capable of join Sadie & Claire and Bobbi & Steve via my telephone’s facetime to say goodbye too. I prefer to suppose he may sense us all there, however he was deeply unconscious.”
Morley continued: “Shortly after I arrived again on the home, Jordan, a male nurse who’d been so splendidly compassionate within the covid unit, known as to inform me that Adam had simply handed, peacefully, He was holding his hand because it occurred. It had been a darkish, overcast day, however at that second the solar got here out for just some minutes and lit up the complete sky. I really like you so, a lot, Adam.”
Schlesinger’s dying was mourned by many within the leisure trade from Hanks to Rachel Bloom, his frequent collaborator on “Loopy Ex Girlfriend.”
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