Adrienne Adams said goodbye to her father in a hospital parking lot on Long Island.

Two months later, he died from COVID-19.

That was the subject of a deeply emotional speech delivered by the Council speaker and mayoral candidate on Thursday, recounting her father Irvin Eadie's death from COVID five years ago.  

She used the experience to attack former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's leadership during the crisis.

"My father served his government with pride, but when he needed his government to serve him. It failed him," she said.

Delivered from a room in Elmhurst Hospital, once overridden by patients and death during the pandemic, where nurses wore garbage bags because of a shortage of protective medical clothing, Adams recounted how her father did not get care at that hospital — which was 10 minutes from his home at the time. All because of those conditions.

She claimed state cuts over the years helped lead to them. Cuomo’s team has denied this.

Instead, her father ended up in a hospital on Long Island.

"Looking down at the face that looked so much like mine, I saw a fear in him that I had never seen before,” she said tearfully. “His eyes said, ‘Please, don’t leave me.’"

Adams used her personal story to attack Cuomo's stewardship during COVID-19 — coming days after reports said the Justice Department is investigating the former governor for potentially lying to Congress over that leadership.

Adams argued her community was dismissed, while vaccines flowed to the suburbs.

"I remember begging then Gov. Cuomo begging his office to send lifesaving vaccines to my community and for weeks and months our request was denied no matter what we said,” she said.

She took issue with Cuomo's embrace of his handling of the crisis, citing this speech last month at a Queens church.

"You hit us with COVID, life and death, we come together as a community and we do what they said was impossible and we save lives," Cuomo said at the church last month.

Adams responded Thursday, "It stayed with me because my father lost his life."

Cuomo did not respond directly to the criticism.

His spokesman sent over statements from his supporters, including leaders of churches in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, saying the former governor stood with the Black community during that difficult time.

Adams says Cuomo only stands with them when it's politically expedient.

"These are the politicians who visit when they need to vote but have never lived here, who talk about our struggle but have never suffered with us, who see our political value but never our pain," she said.