Goldie Hawn teared up as she spoke about her close friendship with the late Diane Keaton.
“She just brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance,” Hawn said onstage during the Women in Entertainment Gala Wednesday. “She was like lightning in a bottle.”
“There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do,” she continued. “There wasn’t any world that she couldn’t live in. She was just an extraordinary human being.”
Hawn — who starred alongside Keaton in “The First Wives Club” — broke down in tears while remembering when they lived in neighboring buildings.
“It was just the greatest thing knowing she was just below me,” Hawn, 80, said. ” … She was always on my mind, she was so close to me.”
Hawn also recalled the moment she found out the “Annie Hall” star had died.
“Then, came time when she passed, I happened to learn when I was in my backyard, and I went over to my backyard to my rose garden,” she shared. “I just looked down. She can’t be gone. She just cannot be gone. No one like that should ever die.”
Keaton died on Oct. 11 and her cause of death was listed as pneumonia. She was 79 years old.
Hawn shared an emotional tribute to heron Instagram, noting that they talked about possibly living together one day.
“We agreed to grow old together, and one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends,” she wrote. “Well, we never got to live together, but we did grow older together. Who knows… maybe in the next life.”
“Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend,” she added. “I’m going to miss the hell out of you.”
Hawn and Keaton’s fellow “The First Wives Club” co-star Bette Midler also shared kinds words after Keaton’s death.
“The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Midler, 80, wrote on X.
“She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!,” she continued.
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