Actor Aubrey Plaza opened up about how she’s dealing with grief after the sudden demise of her husband, Jeff Baena.
Plaza talked concerning the “every day struggles” she goes by throughout an look on the podcast “Good Dangle” — hosted by her “Parks and Recreation” co-star Amy Poehler.
“I really feel glad to be with you. I’m right here and I’m functioning and I really feel, you recognize, I really feel actually grateful to be transferring by this world,” Plaza stated.
Baena, an unbiased filmmaker, died by suicide in January. The couple tied the knot in 2021 and collaborated on a number of movies collectively, equivalent to “Spin Me Round,” “The Little Hours,” and “Life After Beth.”
Throughout the interview, Plaza in contrast her grieving course of to the current movie “The Gorge” starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Pleasure.
“Within the film, there’s a cliff on one facet after which there’s a cliff on the opposite facet after which there’s like a gorge in between and it’s crammed with all these monster folks which are attempting to get them,” she stated.
Plaza added: “There’s like a large ocean of simply awfulness that’s proper there and I can see it. And typically I simply need to simply dive into it and simply be in it. And typically I simply have a look at it. And typically I’m simply attempting to get away from it, but it surely’s all the time there. It’s simply all the time there.”