Goldie Hawn, who starred in The First Wives Club with the late film icon Diane Keaton, paid tribute to her dear friend after her death as she was honored at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala.
On Dec. 3, both Hawn and Sarah Paulson attended the Women in Entertainment Gala in Los Angeles, Calif., to help honor Keaton by giving speeches about the actress, with Good Morning America sharing a video of Hawn's emotional message.
Hawn began by admitting that it was "really hard" for her to put the speech together, saying, "I write, and then I cry. And then I write, and then I cry." She then opened up about how the two lived right near each other, with Hawn's house above Keaton's.
"It was just the greatest thing knowing that she was just below me," she said. "I would go and do my flowers and stuff, my rose garden, and it was right on the edge there. And I remember looking over and wondering, what in the world is she doing now?"
Hawn admitted, "She was always on my mind. She was so close to me," before recalling the moment that she found out that Keaton had died.
"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,'" the Overboard star emotionally said.
Hawn's deep praise for Keaton as both an artist and person continued, "She just brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance. She was like lightning in a bottle. There wasn't anything that she couldn't do, there wasn't any world that she couldn't live in."
View this post on InstagramThe 80-year-old mentioned Keaton's talents beyond acting, noting that she wrote books, produced projects, and even directed.
Her last comments about her close friend were arguably the most touching. She described Keaton as a star, telling the audience, "I think that she is a star. And if we can have a fantasy, which I do, 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."
Hawn concluded her speech, looking choked up and holding in her emotions, before she stepped away from the podium to allow Paulson her turn to speak.
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Keaton died on Oct. 11 at the age of 79 from pneumonia. After news broke of her death, Hawn shared a tribute to her on social media, writing, "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."
In her Dec. 3 speech, Hawn referenced her Instagram tribute, acknowledging the pressure she felt when crafting the message and the difficulty in trying to sum up her emotions about Keaton in such a small space.
Luckily, she got a chance to pay tribute to her late friend on a bigger stage at the Women in Entertainment Gala, leaving fans everywhere touched by the speech.
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