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.”

She concluded, “When we share these together, we are never alone.” Unfortunately, Keaton was unable to release any more solo music before her death.

Keaton Described Singing as Her Main Passion

Keaton was very open throughout her career about her love of singing and how it was the one thing she really wanted to do, but her life just didn’t work out that way. In an interview for Cinephilia & Beyond in 2015, Keaton said, “Singing was the first thing. Music. I mean, when you think about it music is first with me.”

“It fills the emptiness of the soul, God, music is the ultimate revelation,” she went on, talking about how much singing and music meant to her. Keaton called music “by far the greatest of all the arts to just place you into a moment and that’s thrilling.”

While she tried to pursue a career in music at different points in her life, it never quite worked out. She sang songs for a few film soundtracks over the years, but it wasn’t until months before her death that she came out with her own original music.

Keaton Pursued Her Dream of Being a Singer in Her 20s

The Family Stone actress pursued a career as a singer in her younger years, before her acting career really took off.

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“I had a fantasy of being a nightclub singer that I carried through even into my early 20s,” she told the publication Metro North in 2014. “I sang a couple of gigs, as they call them, but I was not very good. I began to understand that I was not going to be a singer.”

She went on, claiming that her voice had some shortcomings that contributed to her lack of success, saying, “I’ve always loved to sing but I’m aware of the limitations of my voice. It was always a disappointing voice. I took singing lessons for years, but it was a very small voice.”

At the time of the interview, Keaton got an opportunity to sing on the soundtrack of her movie, And So It Goes, co-starring Michael Douglas and Rob Reiner, performing the songs “It Could Happen to You,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Blue Moon,” “Something to Talk About,” and “The Shadow of Your Smile.” She seemed thrilled about getting the chance to sing the five songs, noting how meaningful the moment was for her.

“I never thought I’d ever sing again,” Keaton admitted in the 2014 interview before sharing her gratitude for having the opportunity, saying that to “have the possibility of singing four songs and one song all the way through was a dream come true.”

Throughout her career, Keaton also sang on the original Broadway soundtrack of Hair in the song “Black Boys,” and the song “Anywhere With You” on the soundtrack of her 2023 movie, Book Club: The Next Chapter.

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How Goldie Hawn, 80, is defying the laws of ageing with her youthful features and incredible figure as she hits her milestone birthday

Getting older is one of life’s inevitabilities – but Goldie Hawn appears to have rolled back the years.

On Friday, the silver screen legend reached her 80th birthday and looks just as good as she did in the ’60s.

Known as the Summer Beauty Muse, her bubbly personality, infectious smile, and eye-catching fashion sense make her undoubtedly a Hollywood icon.

Her talents have landed her several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

With her timeless American beauty remaining as striking as ever, she is one of the industry’s all-around greats.

But how does she maintain her youthful glow and stunning figure at 80?

‘We all know the physical benefits of exercise but it can also profoundly impact our mental health in an amazing way.’

Giving further insight into her routine, she previously told People in 2017: ‘I try to drink my juices, I try to work out every day a little bit, I find moments in the day.

‘I have short meditation spurts during the day. If I don’t have a long one in the morning.

‘I hike, I bike, I try to move as much as possible.’

Goldie said that staying ‘very, very active’ is key to maintaining one’s mental health and staying positive.

‘I try to stay positive and be very, very active. I walk every day and I run and do all kinds of that.’

When it comes to her diet plan, Goldie’s core tenets are food separation and not overeating.

‘I don’t eat a lot,’ she told People. ‘I think we overeat.

‘I don’t put a lot of food in my stomach and I don’t mix my foods too much.

‘So if I want to have, like, protein, I’ll just eat a bowl of lentils, I won’t mix it with a bunch of stuff.’

As for her go-to beverage, the star is no stranger to loving a green juice.

‘I drink my green juice every day!’ Goldie told People.

Goldie knows that taking care of what’s inside benefits your outside. In fact, the first thing she does when she wakes up is say some affirmations.

‘I breathe big, deep breaths, hold it -especially if I’m feeling sleepy -and, after about four breaths, my eyes just pop right open,’ she told the Wall Street Journal. ‘Oxygen is a big deal.’

And it’s something she practices all day.

‘One affirmation isn’t enough. You have to keep, throughout the day, reminding yourself of affirming messaging, whether it’s a message to yourself or a message to what it is you want to affect positively.’

While Goldie is all about following a healthy diet and exercising, it’s no surprise that she doesn’t take her looks seriously.

‘I also glance a lot at my face, but I don’t study it,’ she told the Wall Street Journal: ‘I’m not a studier of my face, of my beauty,’ she previously told the Wall Street Journal.

Goldie is a doting mother of three kids.

She shares Kate, 46, and Oliver, 49, with ex-husband Bill Hudson, and is mum to son Wyatt Russell, 39, with partner Kurt Russell.

The beauty is also stepmum to Kurt’s son Boston Russell, 45.