Aubrey Plaza Recounts How Patti LuPone’s IV Drip Incident Nearly Ended Her Life | Entertainment

Aubrey Plaza is remembering the time her Agatha All Along costar Patti LuPone nearly killed her. 

The Parks and Recreation actress recalled a second that occurred when she lived with LuPone whereas performing in an Off Broadway manufacturing of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea final yr. When Plaza fell sick through the play's run, the Broadway legend advised a possible treatment — one which very practically took Plaza out.

“Oh yes, she almost killed me,” she confirmed to Seth Meyers on Late Night With Seth Meyers Thursday evening. “Well, it was a long story, but basically I was really sick and she said, ‘You have to see my special nurse. His name is Joe. He comes at night.'”

LuPone knowledgeable Plaza that she could be acting at an occasion when the nurse got here, however defined that he was “gonna hook you up to the machine and you're gonna get all the things that I get, and they're gonna perk you right up.”

But Meyers joked that LuPone might have had an ulterior motive along with her scheduled absence that night. “I almost feel like her gala is like, ‘I have to go get what's called an alibi,'” he teased. “‘I have to go be seen by public people.'” 

A laughing Plaza agreed, including, “Take one picture and come back to the scene of the crime.”

Joe arrived that night to deal with Plaza with an IV drip. “He came and he hooked me up and he said, ‘I'm just gonna give you some vitamins and things like that,'” she recalled. “And then, right before Patti came back, he said, ‘Now, do you want what Patti gets to help you sleep?'”

Plaza agreed to attempt the “Patti Special” however had no clue that it might change her life. “It was Benadryl, and I found out,” she mentioned. “I thought it was going to be more like a children's Benadryl [that makes you] a little groggy, but when you get Benadryl just injected intravenously… it was like a horse tranquilizer for me.”

LuPone arrived house simply in time to see the consequences kick in. “I couldn't talk. I was going, ‘Haaa,'” Plaza mentioned, purposefully slurring her speech. “And she was dripping in diamonds and she was like, ‘Oh, darling, no!'” 

LuPone immediately swung into motion. “She went, ‘I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make you a peace of English muffin with peanut butter,'” Plaza recalled. “And I couldn't speak, and I was like [grunting]. I was having cold sweats, and I was cold, and then I was hot, and I kept going, ‘Joe, am I alright? Am I gonna make it?' And he was like, ‘Oh, you'll be fine.'”

Enter: a lifesaving peanut butter English muffin. “She started trying to shove an English muffin in my mouth with peanut butter, and I'm like [chewing], and she's like, ‘Get it in, get it in,'” Plaza mentioned. “And then finally I came to and finally Joe said, ‘I'm leaving.' And I came down, and I looked at her, and we just sat in the living room, and I just said, ‘Why is this happening, Patti? Why did this happen?'”

LuPone knew precisely why. “She went, ‘It's happening because you are on the stage now and you need to toughen up, and that is why it's happening,'” Plaza mentioned. “And I understood everything about Hollywood in that moment.”

Agatha All Along is streaming now on Disney+. Watch Plaza talk about her scary Benadryl incident within the clip above.