Aubrey Plaza has shared a press release after the demise of her husband Jeff Baena, who was discovered useless in a Los Angeles residence on Jan. 3. He was 47. The L.A. County Coroner’s Workplace decided the reason for demise to be suicide.

“That is an unimaginable tragedy. We’re deeply grateful to everybody who has supplied assist,” 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 initiatives comparable to “The Little Hours” and “Life After Beth,” which each starred Plaza. The pair additionally labored collectively on “Spin Me Spherical” and the sequence “Cinema Toast,” which marked Plaza’s directorial debut. Though they stored their relationship comparatively non-public, Plaza and Baena started courting in 2011 and had been married in Might 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 assist one another and actually perceive form of the journey that we’re each on. However, you already know, working along with your associate can all the time be difficult. There’s plenty of issues we do individually and I believe that it’s all about steadiness,” she advised Folks journal in a 2019 interview. “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 form of enjoyable. Nothing is ever the identical. You don’t need to spend an excessive amount of time aside. However I believe that there’s a manner that it might probably work and there’s a steadiness in that.”