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- Goldie Hawn shared an emotional tribute to Diane Keaton after her death
- The pair were friends and starred together in the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club
- Keaton died at age 79 in California on Saturday, Oct. 11
Goldie Hawn is remembering Diane Keaton.
The actress, 79, posted an emotional tribute for her The First Wives Club costar and longtime friend following her death on Saturday, Oct. 11.
“Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you,” Hawn began her Instagram message. “You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination.”
“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,” Hawn continued, adding of Keaton, “There was, and will be, no one like you.”
The star then wrote that Keaton “stole the hearts of the world,” making fans and those close to her “laugh and cry” at her films “in ways only you could.”
Hawn further reflected on her friendship with Keaton, which grew during the making of the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club.
Recalling how the pair would start their day together “with coffee in the makeup trailer, laughing and joking, right through to the very last day of filming,” she said, “It was a roller coaster of love.”
“We agreed to grow old together, and one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends. Well, we never got to live together, but we did grow older together,” Hawn continued.
“Who knows … maybe in the next life. Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend. I’m going to miss the hell out of you,” Hawn concluded her post, also sharing her condolences to Keaton’s two children: son Dexter and daughter Ruth.
Keaton starred in The First Wives Club, based on the 1992 novel by Olivia Goldsmith, alongside Hawn and Bette Midler.
The trio played former college friends Brenda, Elise and Annie, who reunite for the funeral of their friend Cynthia (Stockard Channing), and bond over their relationship troubles and vow revenge on former lovers.
Following the film’s commercial success worldwide, the three actresses spoke on several occasions about doing a possible sequel to the movie, but it never came to fruition.
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Former costar, Midler, 79, also remembered Keaton in her own tribute post, describing the late star as “brilliant, beautiful [and] extraordinary.”
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Midler wrote on Instagram. “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!”
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