Actor Aubrey Plaza opens up about grief after death of her husband: "It's like a daily struggle"

Actor Aubrey Plaza is opening up for the first time about the death of her husband, Jeff Baena , who died in January.

The "Parks and Recreation" star shared her grief on former co-star Amy Poehler's podcast, "Good Hang with Amy Poehler."

"Overall, I'm here and I'm functioning," Plaza told Poehler. "it's like a daily struggle, obviously."

It's the first time Plaza spoke about losing Baena, 47, to suicide.

Plaza compared her grief to the 2025 sci-fi horror film, "The Gorge."

"At all times there's like a giant like ocean … of just awfulness," she said. "It's just always there and the monster people are trying to get me."

Plaza and Baena, a writer and director, began dating in 2011 and married in 2021 on their tenth anniversary as a couple. Plaza previously spoke about the wedd