Aubrey Plaza after the suicide of her husband Jeff Baena: “A huge ocean of horrors from which I cannot escape”

Life is no longer the same for Aubrey Plaza since, Last January, her husband Jeff Baenza took his life. Del mourning never wanted to speak: he deactivated the Instagram account and ended in silence. At least until the friend and connects Parks and RecreationAmy Pohler, did not convince him to participate in an episode of his podcast, Good Hang.

The actress of The White Lotus He said he lives “a daily struggle”. “I think I feel good,” he says. But the lack of the other remains “a giant ocean of horrors. Sometimes I don’t want to do is dive and stay there, I look at him from afar trying to move away. But he is always there ».

Plaza had met the screenwriter, director and producer in 2011. Together they worked on horror comedy Life After Beth – Love at any cost (2014), which many newspapers indicate how the moment of their first meeting. Later they returned to collaborate with The Little Hours. According to the investigative office of the county of Los Angeles, the couple had separated in September 2024. During the pandemic, however, they had celebrated the tenth anniversary of relationship in pajamas, celebrating an improvised and “completely spontaneous” wedding, as she had defined it in an episode of Ellen.

Today, at 41, Plaza returned to the big screen with My old ass and in the series Agatha All Alongas well as in the last effort of Ethan Coen, Honey Don’t!arriving in Italian cinemas on September 18 after the presentation in Cannes.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock (15438807aa) Aubrey Plazafocus Feature’s ‘Honey Don’t’ Special Screening, New York, USA – 13 Aug 2025Erik Pendzich / Shutterstock / IPa-Agecy.net

In the podcast, he compared his mood to the film The Gorge: “I’m happy to be here, grateful of my journey in the world,” he said. «I know it’s a stupid comparison, but it’s true for me. In the film there is a cliff on one side, another on the other and in the middle a ravine full of monstrous creatures chasing the protagonists. When I saw it I thought: that’s how I feel in mourning, or in mourning in general. Every time”.

In order not to fall into that abyss, he confesses to cling to friendships: «I have a group of friends with whom I share a chat, we make calls on zoom and travel together. They make me laugh heartily. I have known them for a lifetime and they are the best because they tear me up, they are really funny ».

In short, a glimpse of lightness in a darkness that eight months after the disappearance of the partner is still almost total.

Source: Vanity Fair

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