Elise is saying goodbye to Annie.
Goldie Hawn posted a heartbreaking tribute to her “The First Wives Club” co-star Diane Keaton after the latter actress died at age 79.
“Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you,” Hawn, 79, wrote on Instagram Saturday, alongside a black-and-white picture of Keaton.
“You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination,” Hawn continued. “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.”
Hawn, who also worked with Keaton in the 2001 film “Town and Country,” said that Keaton “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,” Hawn recalled. “It was a roller coaster of love.”
Hawn also shared that the pair “agreed to grow old together, and one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends.”
“Well, we never got to live together,” Hawn added, “but we did grow older together. Who knows… maybe in the next life.Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend. I’m going to miss the hell out of you.”
At the end of her post, Hawn stated that her “heart goes out” to Keaton’s two adopted children, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25.
“I love you,” Hawn concluded.
Hawn, Keaton and Bette Midler starred in “The First Wives Club” as three college friends and recent divorcées who seek revenge on their ex spouses. The 1996 movie helped revitalize the trio’s careers and has become a cult classic.
Midler, 79, shared her own tribute to Keaton on Instagram, reacting to the “brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary” actor’s death.
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Midler wrote. “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!”
Keaton, whose career spanned more than half a century, died Saturday in California, her family confirmed. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Keaton’s health allegedly “declined very suddenly” in the last few months.
“It was so unexpected,” a friend of Keaton’s told People Saturday, “especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”
The “Father of the Bride” actress last posted to her Instagram on April 11, sharing a photo with her Golden Retriever, Reggie. She had not been seen publicly in six months.
