Aubrey Plaza makes heartbreaking admission about grief in first interview since her husband's death

Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing.

Aubrey Plaza has made a heartbreaking admission about grief in her first interview since her husband died earlier this year.

Screenwriter and film director Jeff Baena died by suicide at his home in Los Angeles in January at the age of 47 back in January.

Plaza and the Baena/Stern family shared a joint statement with The Independent following his tragic passing, which read: "This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support.

"Please respect our privacy during this time."

Plaza appeared on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast recently, where she opened up on what life has been like since her devastating loss.

"Overall, I'm here and I'm functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I'm okay, but it's like a daily struggle, obviously," she told her friend and Parks and Recreation co-star.

Aubrey Plaza has been speaking about her grief (Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

She added: "This 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's like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller.

"In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side and there's a cliff on the other side, then there's gorge in between and it's filled with all these like monster people that are trying to get them."

Well, Plaza went on to say how the movie helped her explain her grief a bit more.

"I swear when I watched it, I was like that feels like what my grief is like … or what grief could be like," she added, as per People.

"At all times there's like a giant ocean of awfulness, that's 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's always there."

Aubrey Plaza lost her husband earlier this year (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Poehler went on to say Plaza's dog has offered some kind of therapy during these very difficult few months.

Plaza and Baena began dating in 2011 before tying the knot a decade later in 2021, with The White Lotus star telling Ellen DeGeneres that year the pair 'got a little bored one night' during covid and decided to get married using a 'one-hour marriage' site.

You know, as you do.

Plaza said: "I joked about getting married, and he was like, 'Well, we probably couldn't get married that fast. And I said, 'Wouldn't it be nice to get married on our actual anniversary?' And then I Googled it and I found onehourmarriage.com."