Goldie Hawn is paying tribute to her late friend, neighbor, and co-star Diane Keaton.
If you didn’t know, the two Oscar-winning actress had been friends for decades and starred together in the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club. Diane sadly passed away in October at the age of 79 following a battle with pneumonia.
On Wednesday morning (December 3), Goldie, 80, broke down in tears as she honored Diane at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2025 Women in Entertainment Breakfast Gala.
Keep reading to find out more…In her speech, Goldie said that Diane lived so close to her that the would often talk to each other from their yards.
“Then it came time when she passed, and I happened to learn when I was in my backyard, and I went over to my backyard to my rose garden,” Goldie recalled while sobbing, per THR. “I just looked down. She can’t be gone. She just cannot be gone. No one like that should ever die. She just brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance. She was like lightning in a bottle.”
“She was just an extraordinary human being,” she continued. “Yeah, she’s an amazing actress. Look what she can do. Look at this natural aspect of how her body and mind work together and how she’s able to bring us joy and give us emotion and all of it. But look what else she did. She wrote books. She was interested in many things, not just acting and producing, but also directing.”
Later in her speech, Goldie said that Diane was “like a little lightning bug.”
“She would fly up over here and you’d go try to catch her. [But] she was on a journey. She never looked back, and she was a pure, pure, whatever you wanna call it, you call it stars or — I think that she is a star,” Goldie concluded. “We can have a fantasy; what I do is that stars are really people who died a long time ago. They did something really good for the world. I think maybe it’s where she is right now.”
Sarah Paulson also paid tribute to her late friend Diane during the event.
“I really wasn’t sure I wanted to do this, show up on a Wednesday morning to talk about one of the greatest human beings the world has ever known,” Sarah, 50, began. “A magical creature who somehow, horribly, is no longer with us. … A person beloved by the world. Her name was Diane Keaton Hall, and she was surely one of the great loves of my life.”
Al Pacino, who dated Diane on and off in the ’80s, recently spoke out after her passing.
