Goldie Hawn teared up as she spoke about her shut friendship with the late Diane Keaton.
“She simply introduced a lot pleasure, a lot life, a lot exuberance,” Hawn stated onstage throughout the Girls in Leisure Gala Wednesday. “She was like lightning in a bottle.”
“There wasn’t something she couldn’t do,” she continued. “There wasn’t any world that she couldn’t stay in. She was simply a rare human being.”
Hawn — who starred alongside Keaton in “The First Wives Membership” — broke down in tears whereas remembering once they lived in neighboring buildings.
“It was simply the best factor realizing she was slightly below me,” Hawn, 80, stated. ” … She was at all times on my thoughts, she was so near me.”
Hawn additionally recalled the second she discovered the “Annie Corridor” star had died.
“Then, got here time when she handed, I occurred to be taught once I was in my yard, and I went over to my yard to my rose backyard,” she shared. “I simply seemed down. She will’t be gone. She simply can’t be gone. Nobody like that ought to ever die.”
Keaton died on Oct. 11 and her reason behind demise was listed as pneumonia. She was 79 years outdated.
Hawn shared an emotional tribute to her on Instagram, noting that they talked about presumably residing collectively in the future.
“We agreed to develop outdated collectively, and in the future, perhaps stay along with all our girlfriends,” she wrote. “Nicely, we by no means obtained to stay collectively, however we did get older collectively. Who is aware of… perhaps within the subsequent life.”
“Shine your fairy mud up there, girlfriend,” she added. “I’m going to overlook the hell out of you.”
Hawn and Keaton’s fellow “The First Wives Membership” co-star Bette Midler additionally shared sorts phrases after Keaton’s demise.
“The sensible, stunning, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I can not let you know how unbearably unhappy this makes me,” Midler, 80, wrote on X.
“She was hilarious, a whole authentic, and utterly with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star. What you noticed was who she was…oh, la, lala!,” she continued.
