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Diane Keaton\u2019s death<\/a> has taken a huge toll on her close friend and fellow actress Goldie Hawn.<\/p>\n Hawn was brought to tears while remembering her late friend during an emotional speech<\/a> at The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Women in Entertainment gala in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 3. <\/p>\n \u201cShe was so close to me,\u201d Hawn said during the gala<\/a>, explaining how the two would talk and share laughs while living right next to each other. \u201cIt was just the greatest thing knowing that she was just below me.\u201d<\/p>\n The Golden Globe recipient mentioned how her rose garden was perched just above Keaton\u2019s house, which was where Hawn learned about Keaton\u2019s death earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen she passed, and 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, \u2018She can\u2019t be gone. She just cannot be gone. No one like that should ever die,\u2019\u201d Hawn said. \u201cShe just brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance. She was like lightning in a bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n Hawn continued by saying Keaton was \u201clike a little lightning bug.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[She\u2019d] light up over here, and then you\u2019d try to catch her. And then she\u2019d light up over there and you\u2019d go try to catch her. But you couldn\u2019t catch Diane. She was on a journey. She never looked back, and she was a pure, pure, whatever you want to call it, you call it stars or whatever,\u201d Hawn said. \u201cI think that she is a star…What I do is that stars are really people who died a long time ago. They did something really good for the world. I think maybe it\u2019s where she is right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Hawn\u2019s speech came after a video montage of Keaton\u2019s life and career played at the gala. The montage included clips from some of Keaton\u2019s most popular films, including \u201cAnnie Hall,\u201d \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and \u201cThe First Wives Club,\u201d from which Hawn recalled memories filming with Keaton and Bette Midler.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we did this movie, we worked together, she was very tenacious,\u201d Hawn said, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s an incredibly hard worker. At the same time, she would come into the makeup trailer, which is my favorite thing, and she had a different hat on every day,\u201d Hawn mentioned while referring to Keaton\u2019s iconic signature style.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cShe was just an extraordinary human being. Yeah, she\u2019s an amazing actress. Look what she can do,\u201d Hawn continued. \u201cBut look what else she did. She wrote books. She was interested in many things, not just acting and producing, but also directing.\u201d<\/p>\n