Goldie Hawn Fights Tears Recalling Moment She Heard Diane Keaton Died

 Goldie Hawn and Sarah Paulson Pay Tearful, Heartfelt Tributes to Diane Keaton

Hollywood is mourning the loss of the beloved and iconic actress Diane Keaton. At The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala on December 3rd, the event honored Keaton with a video montage of her life and career, followed by moving tributes from two of her closest friends and co-stars, Goldie Hawn and Sarah Paulson.

Goldie Hawn Recalls the Moment She Heard the News

Taking the stage to honor her longtime friend and First Wives Club co-star, 80-year-old Goldie Hawn was immediately overcome with emotion. Hawn revealed that she and Keaton were not only friends but close neighbors, and Keaton was “always on my mind.”

Hawn recalled the specific, painful moment she learned of Keaton’s passing:

“And when 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 and I just looked down at her house [and] said, ‘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 emphasized Keaton’s extraordinary nature, stating, “There wasn’t anything that she couldn’t do. There wasn’t any world that she couldn’t live in. There was just she was just an extraordinary human being.”

She fondly remembered working with Keaton on First Wives Club, describing her as “very tenacious and an incredibly hard worker.” Hawn also humorously referenced Keaton’s signature style, joking that the Annie Hall star’s skirts were “so wide she couldn’t get through the door.”

Goldie concluded her tribute with a poetic description of her late friend:

“She’s like a lightning bug, like a little lightning bug that would light up over here and you go try to catch her and then she’d light up over there… But you didn’t catch Diane. She was on a journey. She never looked back and she is a pure, pure, whatever you want to call it, you call it stars, whatever. But I think that she is a star. And if we can have a fantasy, which I do, is that stars are really people who died a long time ago that did something really good for the world. I think maybe that’s where she is right now.”

Sarah Paulson’s Hilarious and Heartfelt Farewell

Actress Sarah Paulson followed Hawn, sharing equally emotional and often hilarious memories of Diane Keaton, whom she declared was “one of the great loves of my life.” Paulson recounted striking up a friendship with Keaton while shooting The Other Sister.

To the audience’s delight, the American Horror Story star shared some of the candid and amusing messages she had received from Keaton over the years:

“what is your address?”

“Truly, truly. I want to see you and your house, idiot.”

“When date die,”

“Sarah, I hate your phone. It is always full and I can never leave a message.”

“More on, what is your address?”

Through tears, Paulson concluded her remarks by reading a poignant email she wishes she could send to her beloved friend:

“Dear Dum Dum, I want to tell you I’m sorry my voicemail was always full. I want to tell you I’m sorry I wasn’t available every time you called me. I want to tell you how much crummier the world is without you in it… And I want to tell you I will miss you forever. But most of all, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being my friend.“