Goldie Hawn is continuing to mourn Diane Keaton’s death.
Nearly two months after Keaton passed away at age 79, Hawn, 80, broke down in tears as she gave an emotional tribute to her late “First Wives Club” co-star while speaking at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala on Wednesday.
“Diane lived right below me,” Hawn recalled. “My house was higher up, and I went down, and I said, you know, we can talk to each other. We would laugh, because we were so close, and, literally, I said, ‘Let me get a megaphone.’”
Hawn shared the moment she found out that Hawn died on Oct. 11.
“I happened to learn when I was in my backyard, and I went over to my backyard to my rose garden,” she told the crowd. “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,” Hawn continued. “There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do. There wasn’t any world that she couldn’t live in. She was just an extraordinary human being.”
Hawn, who also worked with Keaton in the 2001 film “Town and Country,” sang the late star more praises by mentioning her many accomplishments.
“She’s an amazing actress. Look what she can do,” Hawn stated. “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 during her speech, Hawn remembered a special moment she shared with Keaton when they wrapped filming their beloved 1996 film.
“The last day when we made the movie, we had our feet up on the table and extolling how exciting it was that we won and it was the end of the movie, and we were just waiting for lighting or whatever, and I said, ‘Diane, when we get old, why don’t we live together? And we can swim in the pool and drink wine and it’ll all be great,’” Hawn recalled. “She went, ‘Yeah. Yeah.’”
“And that never happened,” Keaton added through tears. “Well, I couldn’t leave Kurt anyway.”
Hawn went on to describe her late friend, who died of pneumonia, as “a lightning bug” who couldn’t be caught.
“She was on a journey. She never looked back,” Hawn shared. “And she was a pure whatever you wanna call it — you call it stars, whatever. But I think she is a star.”
Hawn, Keaton and Bette Midler starred in “The First Wives Club” as three college friends and recent divorcées who seek revenge on their ex spouses. The 1996 movie helped revitalize the trio’s careers and has become a cult classic.
Shortly after Keaton’s death, Hawn posted an Instagram tributeand reflected on her bondwith her late co-star.
“I was blessed to make First Wives Club with you, our days starting with coffee in the makeup trailer, laughing and joking, right through to the very last day of filming,” Hawn shared. “It was a roller coaster of love.”
Midler, 80, honored Keaton on Instagram as well, describing the actress as “brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary.”
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Midler wrote. “She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star.”
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