20 August 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nAubrey Plaza has described her grief as “a giant\u00a0ocean of awfulness” following the death of her estranged husband, Jeff Baena.<\/p>\n
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Jeff Baena died by suicide in January and every day has been a ‘struggle’ since for his estranged wife Aubrey Plaza<\/p>\n
\nThe screenwriter and director took his own life on January 3, aged\u00a047, with his body discovered at his home in Los Angeles, California, by his dog walker.<\/p>\n
\nPlaza – who had separated from Baena in September 2024 – admits every day is a “struggle” as she continues to mourn the painful loss seven months on.<\/p>\n
\nAsked how she is doing by her Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast, she said: \u201cRight in this very, very present moment, I feel happy to be with you. Overall, I\u2019m here and I\u2019m functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I\u2019m okay, but it\u2019s like a daily struggle, obviously.”<\/p>\n
\nShe continued: \u201cThis is a really dumb analogy and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it. Did you see that movie The Gorge? It\u2019s like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller. In the movie, there\u2019s like a cliff on one side and there\u2019s a cliff on the other side, then there\u2019s gorge in between and it\u2019s filled with all these like monster people that are trying to get them.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI swear when I watched it, I was like that feels like what my grief is like \u2026 or what grief could be like.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAt all times there\u2019s like a giant ocean of awfulness, that\u2019s like right there and I can see it. Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just like be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But, it\u2019s always there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBreaking her silence on his death three days later, Plaza had said in a statement given to People: “This is an unimaginable tragedy.<\/p>\n
\n“We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support.<\/p>\n
\n“Please respect our privacy during this time.”<\/p>\n
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