The post was later deleted after some backlash. The post and Facebook profile have both been verified as accurate and confirmed.
This is in response to Aubrey publicly announcing that she is pregnant with her first child. Aubrey was previously married to Jeff Baena for 4 years, and were together for over a decade.
Baena and Plaza got separated in September 2024 before Baena took his own life in January 2025. Aubrey is now in a relationship with Christopher Abbott. The relationship sparked some unsubstantiated online chatter about the pair working close together in the 2020 film “Black Bear”, and again as co stars on the 2023 off broadway revival of “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.”
The brother’s untimely post has been circulating online and has caused more speculation towards the origin of their relationship.
Personally, I feel bad for all parties involved and don’t feel it should be done in the public spotlight.
by Odd-Bodybuilder1797
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This should’ve stayed in the groupchat
Gross and tacky. Leave her alone.
Indeed, best left alone.
Jeff Baena co-wrote one of my favorite movies of all time, I Heart Huckabess, and his movie Horse Girl is great too, so I’m a bit parasocial.
That said, I love Aubrey Plaza too.
LIke you said, there are no winners here. No matter what happened, ultimately no one should be held responsible for another person’s choice to end their life. It’s deeply sad all around. Likely whatever happened between the two of them, there were mental health issues on her late husband’s side regardless.
Maybe it would have been for the best for them to keep this under wraps for longer, until after the baby was born, to obscure attention on the timeline but I understand why it felt impossible to do so perhaps. In the end, it’s all just speculation regarding a life that is none of our business. As artists, I respect all involved and wish them healing.
What purpose does this serve?
Even if this is true it should be private, especially now there’s going to be a child involved
i get that he’s in pain too, but what does he think the public humiliation of a grieving pregnant woman will accomplish here
some people are so weird about judging widows/recent partners of the deceased. something tells me he’d be calling her a cheater if she so much as made eye contact with another man before 2036.
This is messy
If she did cheat, that would suck, but it has nothing to do with now and is irrelevant to her being pregnant. Pointless commentary. It has to be hard to lose your brother so publicly, but this is just awful to accuse and post.
Ew @ people all of a sudden saying the brother is gross as if his brother wasn’t cheated on and now the ex is going on pretending she was so in love with her spouse.
Idc how famous my brothers partner is, if she’s cheating, I’m telling the world lmao. Yall are just biased cause it’s Aubrey Plaza.
I love Aubrey but genuinely curious why everyone assumes she didn’t cheat? The timeline looks suspicious, so I’m wondering if she has verified these allegations? Genuinely curious and playing devils advocate here.
This is all something that should not be playing out for public consumption as it benefits nobody involved.
We do not know what the relationship between Aubrey and her late husband was like or when it ended, also it’s clear that her former brother-in-law is grieving and grief is a tricky thing to navigate.
There are 3 sides to every story…
They were separated when he took his life. To accuse her of not grieving properly as a widow is very fucked up
So… that’s not appropriate. Wish him continued healing but also wish he would’ve not posted this. We don’t know the nature of their relationship and it’s really none of our business.
It’s giving cheap shot at a smidgen of attention
Gross and tacky but I’m mostly distracted by the karma thing, IDK whether I am confused or if he was when he was writing it.
I think i just wont get into this.
These people never actually care about cheating, they care about punishing a woman.
There was no reason for this besides throwing another stone at Aubrey.
May she have an easy pregnancy without any strife from public sentiment
Wasn’t this proven fake?
This doesn’t even make sense
Ugh. It’s an understatement to say Aubrey had gotten so much shit following Jeff’s passing. This dredges it back up, and it’ll be worse this time since someone close to Jeff supports this big piece of speculation
Fuck. My heart breaks for Aubrey. And for this brother who is clearly still hurting and grieving.
He needs to go talk to the lady and get off social media
Let’s be honest the people who are doing this want her to miscarry and that’s what these accusations are about. They don’t want evidence she’s moving on with her life.
She has her life to live and one to make.
am i the only person who really does not care if this is true?
She didn’t live with him since September 2024? How is this baby at all evidence of infidelity? Eff that dude.
I know this place isnt a monolith…but I really hate how when men are being called out for cheating, this place laps that up and say “normalize exposing cheaters”
But when women are then people want it to stay private.
I love Aubrey, but she hopped on a plane to the east coast to be with this man moments after taking her ring off at the end of summer 2024, it was well known amongst her fans at the time. That doesn’t mean she cheated, but she seems to have left her husband for him at the least, add on that she’s worked intimately with him just beforehand… I can see why he/his family would be suspicious.
Is he implying a baby is instant karma like it’s a bad thing?
What a messy situation.
I like mess, but not this time around
I dont think this is real