{"id":2095520,"date":"2025-10-16T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2095520"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:54:12","slug":"diane-keatons-friend-says-she-suffered-unnamed-illness-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/diane-keatons-friend-says-she-suffered-unnamed-illness-before-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Keaton\u2019s Friend Says She Suffered Unnamed Illness Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/diane-keaton\/\"><strong>Diane Keaton\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> friend is claiming the Oscar winner was suffering from another health issue before her death from pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A longtime confidant of Keaton\u2019s told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/10\/15\/diane-keaton-struggled-illness-before-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a> in an interview published on Thursday, October 16, that the actress was struggling from an unnamed illness in the final days of her life and therefore news of her death was \u201cnot a shock\u201d to those who knew her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A spokesperson for Keaton confirmed her death on October 11. At the time, no other details were given but her family \u2014 including children Dexter and Duke \u2014 asked for \u201cprivacy\u201d as they navigated their grief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The family later confirmed to<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/diane-keaton-family-confirms-cause-of-death-grateful-support-11828660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> People<\/em> <\/a>on Wednesday, October 15, that Keaton died of pneumonia at the age of 79.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/diane-keatons-cause-of-death-at-age-79-revealed\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/diane-keatons-cause-of-death-at-age-79-revealed\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Diane Keaton\u2019s Cause of Death at Age 79 Revealed<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tDiane Keaton\u2019s cause of death has officially been confirmed. Keaton\u2019s family shared in a statement to People on Wednesday, October 15, that the Oscar-winner died of pneumonia on Saturday, October 11. \u201cThe Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11,\u201d the statement revealed before sharing how fans could honor her memory. \u201cShe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/diane-keatons-final-instagram-post-before-death-features-dog-reggie\/\">loved her animals<\/a> and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A friend of the <em>First Wives Club<\/em> star previously told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/diane-keaton-listed-dream-home-for-sale-declining-health-in-recent-months-exclusive-11828659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em><\/a> that her health \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NtX6MEGT8Gc\">declined very suddenly<\/a>\u201d in the last months of her life and that she chose to withdraw from public life in order to spend time with her \u201cvery closest family.\u201d Although Keaton was reportedly known for being spotted walking her dog, Reggie, in her neighborhood, those sightings stopped before her death.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is still developing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Keaton\u2019s friend is claiming the Oscar winner was suffering from another health issue before her death from pneumonia. A longtime confidant of Keaton\u2019s told TMZ in an interview published on Thursday, October 16, that the actress was struggling from an unnamed illness in the final days of her life and therefore news of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22188,22062,24003,25601,100241,21738],"class_list":["post-2095520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-deaths","tag-in-memoriam","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Diane-Keatons-Friend-Says-She-Suffered-Unnamed-Illness-Before-Death.jp.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095522,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095520\/revisions\/2095522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}