Aubrey Plaza says Patti LuPone ‘nearly killed’ her with an IV drip

Aubrey Plaza is remembering the time her Agatha All Alongside 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 in poor health throughout the play’s run, the Broadway legend advised a possible treatment — one which very practically took Plaza out.

“Oh sure, she nearly killed me,” she confirmed to Seth Meyers on Late Night time With Seth Meyers Thursday evening. “Effectively, it was a protracted story, however principally I used to be actually sick and she or he mentioned, ‘It’s important to see my particular nurse. His title is Joe. He comes at evening.'”

LuPone knowledgeable Plaza that she could be acting at an occasion when the nurse got here, however defined that he was “gonna hook you as much as the machine and also you’re gonna get all of the issues that I get, they usually’re gonna perk you proper up.”

However Meyers joked that LuPone could have had an ulterior motive together with her scheduled absence that night. “I nearly really feel like her gala is like, ‘I’ve to go get what’s known as an alibi,'” he teased. “‘I’ve to go be seen by public individuals.'” 

A laughing Plaza agreed, including, “Take one image and are available again to the scene of the crime.”

Joe arrived that night to deal with Plaza with an IV drip. “He got here and he hooked me up and he mentioned, ‘I am simply gonna offer you some nutritional vitamins and issues like that,'” she recalled. “After which, proper earlier than Patti got here again, he mentioned, ‘Now, would you like what Patti will get that can assist you sleep?'”

Plaza agreed to strive the “Patti Particular” however had no clue that it might change her life. “It was Benadryl, and I discovered,” she mentioned. “I assumed it was going to be extra like a youngsters’s Benadryl [that makes you] slightly groggy, however if you get Benadryl simply injected intravenously… it was like a horse tranquilizer for me.”

LuPone arrived house simply in time to see the consequences kick in. “I could not discuss. I used to be going, ‘Haaa,'” Plaza mentioned, purposefully slurring her speech. “And he or she was dripping in diamonds and she or he was like, ‘Oh, darling, no!'” 

LuPone immediately swung into motion. “She went, ‘I do know what I am gonna do. I am gonna make you a peace of English muffin with peanut butter,'” Plaza recalled. “And I could not communicate, and I used to be like [grunting]. I used to be having chilly sweats, and I used to be chilly, after which I used to be sizzling, and I stored going, ‘Joe, am I alright? Am I gonna make it?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, you will be advantageous.'”

Enter: a lifesaving peanut butter English muffin. “She began making an attempt to shove an English muffin in my mouth with peanut butter, and I am like [chewing], and she or he’s like, ‘Get it in, get it in,'” Plaza mentioned. “After which lastly I got here to and at last Joe mentioned, ‘I am leaving.’ And I got here down, and I checked out her, and we simply sat in the lounge, and I simply mentioned, ‘Why is that this taking place, Patti? Why did this occur?'”

LuPone knew precisely why. “She went, ‘It is taking place since you are on the stage now and you must toughen up, and that’s the reason it is taking place,'” Plaza mentioned. “And I understood all the pieces about Hollywood in that second.”

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