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Aubrey Plaza is opening up about the grief surrounding her late husband's passing, who died by suicide. 'The White Lotus' actress appeared on the 'Good Hang with Amy Poehler' podcast where she discussed how she's doing in the wake of Jeff Baena's death in January.

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00:00I'm okay. But, you know, it's like a daily struggle, obviously.

00:09Aubrey Plaza is opening up about the grief surrounding her late husband's passing,

00:14who died by suicide. The White Lotus actress appeared on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler

00:19podcast, where she discussed how she's doing in the wake of Jeff Bainas' death in January.

00:24Poehler broached the subject with her former Perks and Rec castmate,

00:27noting that many of her fans want to know how she is, given the tragic circumstances.

00:32I'm in this very present moment. I'm happy to be with you.

00:36Overall, I'm here and I'm functioning and I feel, you know, like I feel really grateful to be

00:45moving through the world. She continued, I'm okay, but you know, it's a daily struggle, obviously.

00:52Plaza went on to use the Apple TV Plus sci-fi movie, The Gorge, as a metaphor for what it's like trying

00:57to deal with having a dark and monstrous ever-present void in your life. It's like an

01:02alien movie with Miles Teller. In the movie, there's a cliff on one side and a cliff on the

01:06other side, and there's a gorge in the middle with monster people that are trying to get them.

01:11I watched it. I was like, that is like, feels like what my grief is like, where it's like,

01:17or what grief could be like.

01:18She continued, at all time, there's like a giant ocean of awfulness that's like right there,

01:23and I can see it. And like, sometimes I, I just want to like, just dive into it and just like

01:29be in it. And then, and then sometimes I just like look at it. And then sometimes I'm like,

01:34I just try to get away from it, but it's always there.

01:36Baina was a 47 year old indie film director and writer and died in his Los Angeles home in January.

01:43Plaza and Baina were married since 2021.

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