Aubrey Plaza has shared a press release after the dying of her husband Jeff Baena, who was discovered lifeless in a Los Angeles residence on Jan. 3. He was 47. The L.A. County Coroner’s Workplace decided the reason for dying to be suicide.
“That is an unimaginable tragedy. We’re deeply grateful to everybody who has provided help,” Plaza and the Baena and Stern household shared Monday. “Please respect our privateness throughout this time.”
Indie filmmaker Baena wrote the script for the 2004 movie “I Coronary heart Huckabees” and directed tasks resembling “The Little Hours” and “Life After Beth,” which each starred Plaza. The pair additionally labored collectively on “Spin Me Spherical” and the collection “Cinema Toast,” which marked Plaza’s directorial debut. Though they saved their relationship comparatively non-public, Plaza and Baena started courting in 2011 and have been married in Could 2021.
Plaza had beforehand shared that being in the identical business allowed her and Baena to empathize and perceive one another on a deep stage.
“Clearly, you’ll be able to help one another and actually perceive type of the journey that we’re each on. However, you understand, working together with your accomplice can all the time be difficult. There’s quite a lot of issues we do individually and I feel that it’s all about steadiness,” she instructed Folks journal in a 2019 interview. “I feel that one of many nice issues about our careers is that we’re compelled to be unbiased, take little breaks, go off and do our issues and are available again. So it’s type of enjoyable. Nothing is ever the identical. You don’t wish to spend an excessive amount of time a component. However I feel that there’s a approach that it might work and there’s a steadiness in that.”