Rashida Jones struggled with losing her mum as she became a mother herself (Picture: Rex)

Rashida Jones has opened up about how difficult it was to become a new mother at the same time as losing her own mother, Peggy Lipton. 

The actress, 44, revealed how heartbreaking it was to be facing the loss of her mother while expecting her son, Isaiah – now two – with her boyfriend Ezra Koenig, 36. 

She told NPR: ‘This has been a very emotionally intense couple of years. It was sort of like back-to-back-to-back-to-back, just wrenching, pulling my heart in all different directions. 

‘I was in grief-shock. I don’t even know if that’s a word, but I was just not in my body at all and just had a baby. I was doubly not in my body.’

The Office star added: ‘The thing that’s the craziest about birth and death is just the utter rawness of feeling. I still feel this way, I think. It’s like something cracks in you. 

‘It’s very binary, both things — becoming a mother and losing my mother — like, there’s my life before and there’s my life after. 

Rashida’s mother, Peggy Lipton, died of cancer in 2019 (Picture: Jim Smeal/BEI/REX)

‘And strangely, there’s something that’s not recognizable before those two things happened. And it’s just this utter rawness of emotion where it doesn’t matter where I am, what I’m doing.