Goldie Hawn is remembering her late costar and friend, Diane Keaton.
“Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you,” Hawn, 79, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, October 11, hours after news broke that the famed actress died in California at the age of 79.
“You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination,” she continued in the caption, which was shared alongside a stunning black and white photo of Keaton in one of her iconic hats and scarfs. “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. There was, and will be, no one like you.”
She continued, “You stole the hearts of the world and shared your genius with millions, making films that made us laugh and cry in ways only you could. I was blessed to make First Wives Club with you, 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.”
The Overboard actress went on to share the plans the two former costars had for their lives in the future.
“We agreed to grow old together, and one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends,” she continued in the moving social media post. “Well, we never got to live together, but we did grow older together. Who knows… maybe in the next life.”
She added, “Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend. I’m going to miss the hell out of you.”
News of Keaton’s death broke on Saturday, October 11. A spokesperson for her family told People the actress died at her home in California. No additional information regarding her death was provided as Keaton’s family asked for privacy during this difficult time.
Keaton and Hawn, 79, costarred in the 1996 film The First Wives Club alongside Bette Midler. The trio played Elise Elliot (Hawn), Annie Paradis (Keaton) and Brenda Cushman (Midler). The movie also starred Maggie Smith, Sarah Jessica Parker, Stockard Channing, Dan Hedaya, Victor Garber, Stephen Collins, Elizabeth Berkly and Marcia Gay Harden.
In 2015, Hawn explained why a sequel to the movie had never been produced despite fans continuously asking to see the threesome back in action.
“We were all women of a certain age, and everyone took a cut in salary to do it so the studio could make what it needed,” she told Harvard Business Review at the time. “We all took a smaller back end than usual and a much smaller front end. And we ended up doing incredibly well. The movie was hugely successful. It made a lot of money. We were on the cover of Time magazine.”
She continued: “But two years later, when the studio came back with a sequel, they wanted to offer us exactly the same deal. We went back to ground zero. Had three men come in there, they would have upped their salaries without even thinking about it. But the fear of women’s movies is embedded in the culture.”
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However, things seemed to change in November 2020, when Hawn hinted at the possibility the trio would reunite for a follow-up movie.
“The script has to be approved, and right now they’ve just given us another draft, so I gotta read that,” Hawn, 79, told Entertainment Tonight on November 18. “So, we’re inching our way toward it, let’s put it that way.”
The movie, which was never made, would have starred the original trio of women, as well as their children and grandchildren, after the man they each married dies in a department store. In 2024, Midler told People the movie was in “development hell.”
“It’s in the abyss where all good scripts go to die,” she added. “Fifteen years is the time limit, I think. When it’s been in development for 15 years, you kind of throw up your hands.”
Midler offered a tribute to Keaton on October 11. “The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died,” Midler, 79, wrote via Instagram. “I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me.”
“She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star,” Midler also wrote. “What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Fans of famed actress Diane Keaton are revisiting some of the actress’ most memorable roles following news of her death. People confirmed on October 11, 2025 that the Something’s Gotta Give actress died in California. She was 79. A spokesperson told the outlet no additional information regarding the actress’ death was available at the time, […]
Hawn’s daughter, Kate Hudson, also shared a tribute to her mother’s late costar.
“We love you so much Diane ❤️🕊️,” she captioned a scene from The First Wives Club via Instagram the day Keaton’s death was announced.
