Aubrey Plaza learned how to "have fun and move forward" from her grandmother

Without mentioning her late husband by name, Aubrey told the Today show: "She taught me from a very young age that life is a party and no matter what happens, we have to have fun and move forward, and so I think this book was inspired by that.

"I think on both sides of my family, I have a lot of witchy women that raised me, so this is an homage to all the women in my life."

Aubrey - who had separate from Baena in September 2024 - previously admitted every day has been a "struggle" since her ex's death.

His body was discovered at his home in Los Angeles, California by his dog walker.

Asked how she is doing by her Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast, she said: "Right in this very, very present moment, I feel happy to be with you. Overall, I'm here and I'm functioning.

"I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I'm okay, but it's like a daily struggle, obviously."

She compared her grief to The Gorge, insisting it felt like a "giant ocean of awfulness".

She continued: "This is a really dumb analogy and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it.

"Did you see that movie The Gorge? It's like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller. In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side and there's a cliff on the other side, then there's gorge in between and it's filled with all these like monster people that are trying to get them.

"I swear when I watched it, I was like that feels like what my grief is like ... or what grief could be like.

"At all times there's like a giant ocean of awfulness, that's like right there and I can see it. Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just like be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But, it's always there."