Months after her husband, Jeff Baena, passed away at the age of 47, Aubrey Plaza opens up about the grieving process.

During her appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, the actress discussed how she was doing after her husband died by suicide. She shared that her pup, Frankie, has become her “therapy dog.”

“Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning,” Plaza explained. “I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I’m okay, but it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.”

She also compared her grieving process to that of the 2025 film The Gorge, which stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.

“It’s like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller,” Plaza explained about the film. “In the movie, there’s like a cliff on one side and there’s a cliff on the other side, then

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