Aubrey Plazas Show Canceled Amid Pregnancy Disappointment

She noted that, back when they were both starring on Parks and Recreation, Winkler's character had assisted her character in giving birth - an experience that Meyers cracked was a 'dress rehearsal.'

Plaza deadpanned to Meyers that she 'may need you to pull it out,' during an appearance on his talk-show Late Night with Seth Meyers.

When the gag was brought up to her at the premiere of The Accompanist, Plaza was asked whom else she would add to her delivery room entourage.

'Maybe Susan? I feel like Susan would do a really good home birth. She already asked me on the red carpet if I have a doula. I'm like, she's ready, ready to go,' said Plaza.

'I've got 'em all lined up. I've got Patti LuPone, I've got Sandra Bernhard, I've got all the New York ladies just ready to catch the baby when it comes out,' she vamped.

Plaza also addressed the tempestuous two years leading up to her pregnancy announcement this April, which made waves online for having come 15 months after the suicide of her estranged husband Jeff Baena.

Baena and Plaza separated in September 2024 and he was

'It’s been a journey, the last couple years,' Plaza said Wednesday, adding that her impending motherhood 'feels like such a blessing, and I’m just going with it.'

Plaza and Baena struck up their romance in 2011 and .

Seven months after his suicide, she described the bereavement as a 'giant ocean of awfulness' and a 'daily struggle,' on the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler.

'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,' she reflected .

'Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I’m OK, but it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.'

Plaza and Abbott kept a veil of privacy largely drawn over their romance, though they did appear together in public shortly after her pregnancy announcement in April.

She was at his side at an opening night afterparty that month for his Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf.

Abbott and Plaza have a professional association stretching back years, beginning when they co-starred in the 2020 movie Black Bear.

From October 2023 through January 2024, they also acted together in an off-Broadway revival of the 1980s play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, written by John Patrick Shanley, whose work includes Doubt and Moonstruck.