Aubrey Plaza has spoken about grief following the passing of her late husband Jeff Baena, who died in January of this year, during a podcast appearance with her former Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler.
Appearing on A Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Plaza was asked by the host how she’s doing right now.
“Right in this very very present moment I feel happy to be with you,” Plaza responds. “I feel…overall I’m here, and I’m functioning, and I feel, you know, I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think, like, I’m OK, but you know, it’s like a daily struggle.”
The actor goes on to compare her grief with the horror movie The Gorge, which features a giant crevasse filled with monsters.
“That feels like what my grief is like, or what grief could be like,” she says. “At all times there’s like a giant ocean of, just, awfulness, that’s like right there and I can see it, and sometimes I Just want to like dive into it, and just like be in it, and then sometimes I just like look at it, and then sometimes I just like try to get away from it, but it’s always there.”
