The beloved actress Diane Keaton passed away on October 11, aged 79. The Academy Award-winning star’s death came as a shock, and the cause of death is not yet known. Her friend, Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, now shares new details on Keaton’s health shortly before her death, recalling their last ever meeting.
Diane Keaton’s passing has shocked the world. The beloved actress rose to fame in the 1970s through roles such as The Godfather and the film adaptation of the comedy Play It Again, Sam. In 1978, she won the Academy Award for her role in Annie Hall.
Diane Keaton went on to star in numerous prominent roles, but in the last year, she was rarely seen in public. The news of her passing in California on October 11 came as a shock, and the cause of death is still not known to the public.
On Sunday, only a day after Los Angeles native, her dear friend, Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, recounted her final visit to Keaton. She told Poeple that they had met “two or three weeks ago,” and that Diane had “lost so much weight.”
After the wildfires in California in January, Keaton had spent a lot of time in Palm Springs.
“She had to go to Palm Springs because her house had been damaged inside, and they had to clean everything. “She was down there for a while, and when she came back, I was kind of stunned by how much weight she’d lost,” Sager said, adding that Keaton was “a magic light for everyone.”
Diane Keaton’s friend says star had lost much weight just weeks before death
Keaton was 79 at the time of her death. But despite the fact that she was getting older, she never wasted an opportunity to show off her cool outfits, Sager, who was part of a weekly “movie group” with Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, explained.
“She went to the movies always dressed like she was about to shoot another scene for Annie Hall,” she continued. “She’d wear her hats and her jackets and her baggy pants, and her belts, she was a fashion icon of her own making.”
Bette Midler also shared a tribute to her beloved friend in an Instagram post. Ske called Keaton “brilliant, beautiful,” and “extraordinary.”
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. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!” Middler wrote.
Speaking with People, another friend, a film executive, stated how Keaton was “funny ríght up until the end.“
“She lived exactly how she wanted to, which was on her own terms, surrounded by the people and things she really loved,” the friend said. “In these last few years, she kept a close circle, and she liked it that way. She was funny right up until the end and she had this way of making even ordinary moments feel special. That was just who she was.”
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