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New details have emerged surrounding Diane Keaton’s tragic death at age 79 on Oct. 11.
On Wednesday, the late star’s family revealed she died of pneumonia in a statement to People.
Primary bacterial pneumonia is listed as Keaton’s immediate cause of death, according to a death certificate obtained by People on Thursday. She had it for days before her death.
The document lists no other significant contributing conditions, but notes Keaton would be cremated.
“The 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,” Keaton’s relatives shared with the outlet on Wednesday.
“She loved her animals 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,” they added.
After Keaton’s passing, a friend shared that her health had “declined very suddenly” in the final months of her life.
“It was so unexpected,” the pal expressed to People, “especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”
They noted that Keaton’s health crisis “was heartbreaking for everyone who loved her.”
“In her final months, she was surrounded only by her closest family, who chose to keep things very private,” the friend continued. “Even longtime friends weren’t fully aware of what was happening.”
Another close friend of Keaton’s, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, revealed that Keaton “lost so much weight” before her death.
“I saw her two or three weeks ago, and she was very thin,” Sager, 81, told People on Sunday. “I was kind of stunned by how much weight she’d lost.”
Meanwhile, one of Keaton’s film executive friends told the outlet that Keaton “was funny right up until the end.”
“She lived exactly how she wanted to, which was on her own terms, surrounded by the people and things she really loved,” they recalled, before mentioning that Keaton “kept a close circle and she liked it that way” in the final years of her life.
The Hollywood vet did not publicly disclose that she was battling any illness. She previously beat two bouts of skin cancer and overcame an eating disorder.
Keaton’s last social media post was on April 11, with the “Father of the Bride” star sharing a photo of her golden retriever, Reggie. She had not been seen publicly in six months.
Despite never being married, Keaton had two children, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25, whom she adopted after turning 50.
“I didn’t think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother,” she previously told Ladies’ Home Journal. “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist. It was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in.”
At her Hand & Footprint Ceremony in 2022, Keaton said that her son and daughter “have no interest in what I do, which I think is very healthy.”
“We live a relatively normal — well, sort of normal — life.”
Following her passing, many celebs paid tribute to the beloved actress.
“They just are never going to have another person on earth like her,” Patricia Arquette told The Post.
Arquette, 57, starred in the 1991 TV movie “Wildflower,” which Keaton directed. Beau Bridges and Reese Witherspoon also co-starred.
The “Severance” star remembered Keaton as being an “artist” from everything including her, “visuals, design, writing, directing.” She also noted the way that Keaton “perceived the world” and “her generosity of spirit.”
Keaton also directed Arquette in the 1990 after-school special, “Girl with the Crazy Brother.”
“And I was very young and starting out, and I’d be nervous” she reminisced, adding that she had “this big crying scene” at the time.
“And I have to do it in front of Diane Keaton! I mean, that was probably the scariest thing on Earth,” she said.
Keaton “would come up to me before a take, and just put her hand on my back, and I just felt infused by her support. She just was so in [the moment] with me.”
Noting about her personal life, Arquette gushed that “[Diane] loved being a mom. She really, really love that.”