STACY’s Mom singer Adam Schlesinger’s final moments have been remembered by his girlfriend Alexis Morley. Alexis shared the couple’s last photo together as well as an emotional description of the Fountains Of Wayne bassist’s final hour before he died of coronavirus. Alexis posted a photo of her and Adam going for a “gorgeous” walk in […]
STACY’s Mom singer Adam Schlesinger’s final moments have been remembered by his girlfriend Alexis Morley.
Alexis shared the couple’s last photo together as well as an emotional description of the Fountains Of Wayne bassist’s final hour before he died of coronavirus.
Alexis posted a photo of her and Adam going for a “gorgeous” walk in upstate New York on March 15.
Just days later, the 52-year-old tested positive for coronavirus and was hospitalized. He died on April 2.
She wrote in a lengthy, moving post on Sunday: “Adam had grown open to, and eventually enthusiastic about taking long walks outdoors (we just weren’t allowed to call them “hikes”).”
Early the next morning, the musician woke with a fever.
Alexis recalled: “We spent such a sweet week together, our roles kind of reversed because usually Adam was the one to take care of me.
“I tried to keep him comfortable, nurse him back to health, as we waited for the fever to break. We were sure it would—just like any other crappy flu. He said, ‘I’m ok. I have my Alexis.’ But 7 days later things got worse and I brought him to the hospital.”
Alexis couldn’t stay with him in hospital and drove home “terrified”, but they texted all night “making cute jokes and feeling optimistic”.
She penned: “He kept telling me how much he loved me and thanked me for ‘saving [his] life,’. The next morning he was intubated. I never got to hear his voice again.”
She then got a call at 3am from the hospital, telling her Adam “wasn’t going to make it.”
“I asked if there was any way I could see him (a cruelty of the pandemic is a strict ban on visitors),” she wrote.
“They made special arrangements for me to be allowed into the covid unit: a low-lit, grim, heavy place; the medical workers and I obscured by layers of PPE.”
Alexis went on: “But Adam looked sweet, peaceful, beautiful. I’m so thankful that I got to spend that one final hour with him.
“I like to think he could sense us there, but he was deeply unconscious.”
Adam’s daughters Sadie & Claire and his parents Bobbi and Steve said goodbye to the star on FaceTime.
After she got home, one of the nurses called to tell her Adam had died.
Alexis wrote: “Shortly after I arrived back at the house, Jordan, a male nurse who’d been so wonderfully compassionate in the covid unit, called to tell me that Adam had just passed, peacefully.
“He was holding his hand as it happened. It had been a dark, overcast day, but at that moment the sun came out for just a few minutes and lit up the entire sky. That’s the second picture… I love you so, so much, Adam.”
There have been more than 55,000 deaths in the US from coronavirus and 1million cases of people testing positive for it.
Adam, who was a founding member of the indie pop band Ivy and Tinted Windows, played bass in Fountains of Wayne.
The band’s biggest hit Stacy’s Mom was released in 2003 and just missed out on the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, landing in 21.
Aside from his time in the charts, Adam was nominated for Oscars, Tonys, Grammys and Emmys during his career.
