Watch: Diane Keaton Dead at 79: Bette Midler, Kimberly Williams Paisley and More React
Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton weren’t just first wives together—they were also lifelong friends.
Following Diane’s death on Oct. 11 at the age of 79, Goldie shared a moving tribute to her former First Wives Club costar, sharing she wasn’t “ready” to lose Diane.
“We agreed to grow old together, and one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends,” Goldie wrote in her Oct. 11 Instagram post. “Well, we never got to live together, but we did grow older together. Who knows… maybe in the next life.”
Writing that Diane “stole the hearts of millions,” Goldie also remembered their time working on First Wives Club together, sharing, “Our days starting with coffee in the makeup trailer, laughing and joking, right through to the very last day of filming. It was a roller coaster of love.”
And with countless roles in beloved movies, Diane’s legacy is one Goldie, 79, knows will live on.
“You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination,” she added. “How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can’t tell me to ‘shut up”’ honey.”
As the 79-year-old put it, “There was, and will be, no one like you.”
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Following Diane’s passing, Goldie wasn’t the only former member of the First Wives Club to remember her. Bette Midler, too, expressed her grief, describing Diane—whose cause of death has not yet been shared—as “brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary.”
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Bette continued in her Instagram tribute. “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!”
Leonardo DiCaprio also shared a tribute to Diane, with whom he worked early in his career on the movie Marvin’s Room.
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As he put it in an Instagram Story, “Diane Keaton was one of a kind. Brilliant, funny, and unapologetically herself.”
“A legend, an icon, and a truly kind human being,” the One Battle After Another star wrote, alongside a throwback picture of him and Diane. “I had the honor of working with her at 18. She will be deeply missed.”
For more celebrities honoring Diane’s legacy, read on.
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