Goldie Hawn Makes Emotional Declaration About Diane Keaton’s Death
What To Know
- Goldie Hawn gave an emotional speech at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala, reflecting on the death of her longtime friend and co-star Diane Keaton.
- Hawn praised Keaton’s extraordinary talent, versatility, and contributions to the arts.
- She shared a heartfelt memory from the set of The First Wives Club, expressing regret that their dream of growing old together as friends never came true.
Goldie Hawn made an emotional declaration about Diane Keaton‘s death, 30 years after they starred in The First Wives Club.
On Wednesday, December 3, Hawn spoke at The Hollywood Reporter‘s Women in Entertainment Gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California. The 80-year-old actress recounted the moment she found out about her neighbor and longtime friend’s death at 79 from pneumonia on October 11.
“I happened to learn when I was in my backyard, and I went over to my backyard, to my rose garden,” Hawn recalled of the news of Keaton’s death. “I just looked down at her house, I 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 and Keaton starred in the 1996 film, The First Wives Club, alongside Bette Midler. Later, Keaton and Hawn worked together in the 2001 film, Town and Country.
“She was just an extraordinary human being,” Hawn added as she fought back tears. “She’s an amazing actress. Look what she can do. 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.”
Goldie Hawn takes the stage and gives an emotional speech as we honor Diane Keaton at our #WOMENinENTERTAINMENT gala and says, “She was like lightening in a bottle. There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do.” pic.twitter.com/QwbWmqqiHW
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 3, 2025
Elsewhere in her speech, Hawn detailed the final day of filming for The First Wives Club.
“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, per The New York Post. “She went, ‘Yeah. Yeah.’”
“And that never happened,” she pointed out. “Well, I couldn’t leave Kurt [Russell] anyway.”
The First Wives Club, streaming on Paramount+