The heartbroken girlfriend of Adam Schlesinger has revealed how she rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night to be with the late composer before he died.

Alexis Morley said she was able to let his parents and two daughters say goodbye on her phone’s Facetime before he passed away aged 52 on April 1 after contracting coronavirus.

Breaking her silence, she posted the final photo of the couple together in upstate New York on March 15 – just days before Schlesinger fell ill.

The picture shows the pair walking in the winter sunshine on ‘Poets’ Walk’ in Red Hook, NY, taken by their friend David Watts, and Morley recalled how that night Schlesinger, who wrote the Oscar-nominated song “That Thing You Do!” for Tom Hanks’ directorial debut – woke at 4am with a high fever.

She wrote: “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. But 7 days later things got worse instead of better and I drove him to the hospital. I wasn’t allowed to walk in with him.

“I drove home alone through a snowstorm terrified (the first time I’d driven a car in years), but we spent the night texting, making cute jokes, and feeling optimistic. He kept telling me how much he loved me and thanked me for saving his life. The next morning he was intubated and I never got to hear his voice again.”

The “Fountains of Wayne” band member, who also won Emmys for his work on TV hit “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, passed away in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Morley added: “After 10 days of me and his truly incredible family and friend group drawing on every resource possible trying to help, I got a 3am call from the hospital telling me he wasn’t going to make it.

“I asked if there was any way I could see him, and they made special arrangements for me to be allowed into the covid unit. It was a low-lit, grim, heavy place, the medical workers and I all hidden under layers and layers of PPE.”

She said she managed to put him through to his family, and said how: “Adam looked sweet, peaceful, beautiful. I’m so thankful that I got to spend that one last hour with him — and that I was able to connect Sadie & Claire and Bobbi & Steve through my phone’s facetime to say goodbye too. I like to think he could sense us all there, but he was deeply unconscious.”

Morley continued: “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. I love you so, so much, Adam.”

Schlesinger’s death was mourned by many in the entertainment industry from Hanks to Rachel Bloom, his frequent collaborator on “Crazy Ex Girlfriend.”