Overview

• Aubrey Plaza offered her first detailed remarks on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang, addressing her husband Jeff Baena’s death for the first time at length.
• She compared her grief to a perilous chasm in the film The Gorge, describing a constant feeling that she sometimes confronts and sometimes tries to avoid.
• Baena’s family had confirmed in January that the 47-year-old died by suicide, and Plaza and the family had issued a joint request for privacy soon after.
• Coverage notes the couple were separated at the time of his death after a long relationship and early-2020s marriage, following years of collaboration on films including Life After Beth and The Little Hours.
• Plaza has resumed selective public work, promoting Honey Don’t! while acknowledging that coping with the loss remains a daily effort.