During an event organized by The Hollywood Reporter, Goldie Hawn gave an emotional speech and couldn’t hold back her tears as she spoke about her friend Diane Keaton, who passed away in October.
The actresses, along with Bette Midler, starred together in the hit 1996 film “The First Wives Club”, but Hawn explained that Keaton was not just a colleague — she was a friend, and even her neighbor.
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“Diane lived just below me. My house was higher up, so I walked down and said, ‘You know, we could talk,’” Hawn recalled, emotional. “We would laugh, because we were so close, and I literally said, ‘Let me get a megaphone.’”
“It was wonderful knowing she was there, just below me,” Hawn said, her voice breaking. “I would go tend my flowers and my rose garden, and she would be right on the edge. And I remember looking over and thinking, ‘I wonder what she’s doing now?’ She was always on my mind. She was so close to me.”
For Hawn, losing Keaton was a true shock: “No one like her should die. She brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance. She was like lightning in a bottle. There was nothing she couldn’t do. There was no world she couldn’t live in. She was simply an extraordinary human being.”
Actress Diane Keaton died at age 79 on October 11, 2025, from bacterial pneumonia. Her death was sudden and unexpected for many, as few people knew about her declining health in her final months.
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