Aubrey Plaza opened up for the first time publicly on coping with the , earlier this year.
The “Parks and Recreation” alum, 41, of former co-star Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast.
“I mean, right in this very… very present moment, I feel happy to be with you. I feel, overall I’m here and I’m functioning and I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think, like, I’m OK. But, you know, itap like a… daily struggle, obviously,” said with a mirthless chuckle.
She then equated her grief to the recent AppleTV+ movie in which Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy guard the bookending cliffsides of a gorge “filled with all these monster people that are trying to get them.
“I swear, when I watched that, that feels what my grief is like … or what grief could be like, where itap like at all times, there’s a giant ocean of awfulness thatap right there and I can see it,” continued the “White Lotus” star.
“And sometimes I just wanna dive into it and be in it. And then sometimes I just look at it and then sometimes I’m like, I just try to get away from it. But itap always there. Itap always there and the monster people are trying to get me like Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.”
Screenwriter and director Baena — known for his collaborations with Plaza, including “Life After Beth,” “Joshy” and “The Little Hours” — was Jan. 3. He was 47.
The couple, who wed in 2021, last September, about .
Plaza and members of Baena’s family released a joint statement thanking those who had “offered support”
during her appearance at the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary program in February, sporting a tie-dyed shirt that appeared to nod to the .
