The Rev. Janet Broderick, former rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, is “on the road to a full recovery” from COVID-19, according to her brother, actor Matthew Broderick.
“I’m happy to say she is feeling much better and is on the road to a full recovery. We are all very appreciative for the wonderful care she received from the amazing doctors and nurses at Cedars Sinai” in Beverly Hills, the Tony-winning actor told Deadline.
“My entire family is grateful for the concern about, and the well wishes for, my sister Janet,” Matthew Broderick told the publication on Saturday.
Earlier in the week, Janet Broderick, 64, was hospitalized for “a severe form of pneumonia” related to the coronavirus, according to All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, where she became rector last year.
“I am through the worst of this and very very much on the mend…Jesus has been so close to me the whole time and scriptures have upheld me no kidding,” she wrote to her parishioners.
Janet Broderick may have contracted the virus at an Episcopal conference in Kentucky in February. At least two other priests who attended also tested positive, according to the Episcopal News Service.
Matthew Broderick and his wife, actress Sarah Jessica Parker, had been scheduled to open previews on Broadway this month in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, Deadline reported, but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban on large gatherings has shuttered theatrical productions.
