Aubrey Plaza opens up about grief after death of husband: "A daily struggle"

Aubrey Plaza opens up astir husband's decease

Actor Aubrey Plaza opens up astir grief pursuing decease of her husband 02:35

Actor Aubrey Plaza is opening up for the archetypal clip astir the decease of her husband, Jeff Baena, who died successful January.

The "Parks and Recreation" prima shared her grief connected erstwhile co-star Amy Poehler's podcast, "Good Hang with Amy Poehler."

"Overall, I'm present and I'm functioning," Plaza told Poehler. "it's similar a regular struggle, obviously."

It's the archetypal clip Plaza spoke astir losing Baena, 47, to suicide. 

Plaza compared her grief to the 2025 sci-fi fearfulness film, "The Gorge."

"At each times there's similar a elephantine similar water … of conscionable awfulness," she said. "It's conscionable ever determination and the monster radical are trying to get me."

Plaza and Baena,  a writer and director, began dating successful 2011 and joined successful 2021 connected their tenth day arsenic a couple. Plaza antecedently spoke astir the wedding connected "The Ellen Show," describing it arsenic an impromptu lawsuit held successful their backyard during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following his death, Plaza and Baena's household said successful a statement,"This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are profoundly grateful to everyone who has offered support. Please respect our privateness during this time."

The 41-year-old said connected Poehler's podcast that immoderate days, she feels stronger than others.

"Right successful this very, precise contiguous moment, I consciousness blessed to beryllium with you," Plaza told Poehler.

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