Diane Keaton’s close friend Carole Bayer Sager is opening up about her final moments with the actress, who died on Saturday at age 79.
The Grammy-winning songwriter, who penned Keaton’s 2024 holiday song First Christmas, told People, ‘I saw her two or three weeks ago, and she was very thin. She had lost so much weight.’
Sager also shared that she’d seen Keaton less this year because the silver screen star spent months in Palm Springs following LA’s January wildfires.
She explained, ‘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.’
And the musician remembered of her late friend as ‘a magic light for everyone.’
Diane Keaton’s close friend Carole Bayer Sager is opening up about her final moments with the actress, who died on Saturday at age 79; pictured in August 2024
The Grammy-winning songwriter told People, ‘I saw her two or three weeks ago, and she was very thin. She had lost so much weight’; pictured in September 2023
She gushed, ‘I just loved her. She was so special, she just lit up a room with her energy.
‘She was happy and upbeat and taking photographs of everything she saw. She was completely creative; she never stopped creating.’
Sager paid tribute to Keaton on Saturday on Instagram following the news of her death.
Posting a smiling portrait of the A-list actress, she wrote, ‘My forever friend. i will miss you so much. Be at peace now. i love you with all my heart.’
She also shared footage from their recording session last December, with the caption, ‘First Chrstmas. The song @jonasmyrin and I wrote for @diane_keaton. Whoever dreams, the lyric could apply to you.. x.’
Sager told People, ‘She so loved recording this song. She was almost childlike about it.’
And she remembered, ‘She was so authentic when she sang it, I mean, she just sang it like she was singing it, and she was sort of acting it, you know, because she is a great actress.
‘And then she’d start to cry when she was singing it. But she did such a beautiful job.’
Sager penned Keaton’s 2024 holiday song First Christmas; pictured during the recording session
Sager paid tribute to Keaton on Saturday on Instagram following the news of her death
Keaton’s longtime friend, pictured in 2019, gushed, ‘I just loved her. She was so special, she just lit up a room with her energy’
Sager additionally praised Keaton’s one-of-a-kind style.
‘She went to the movies always dressed like she was about to shoot another scene for Annie Hall,’ her longtime friend said.
‘She’d wear her hats and her jackets and her baggy pants, and her belts,’ the songwriter added. ‘She was a fashion icon of her own making.’
A family spokesperson confirmed to People that the Academy Award-winning actress passed away in California on Saturday.
Her loved ones have requested privacy as they mourn her loss.
Keaton never married but adopted two children, 29-year-old daughter Dexter and 25-year-old son Duke.