{"id":341408,"date":"2025-10-29T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341408\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:15:18","slug":"it-was-heartbreaking-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341408\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Was Heartbreaking to See\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shocking new details have emerged about the sudden death of beloved actress Diane Keaton<\/strong> \u2014 sources say she was secretly battling hereditary dementia in her final months and that the final downswing was so rapid and severe that even her closest friends didn\u2019t realize what was happening.<\/p>\n

Although the family announced that the final cause of death on Oct. 11 at age 79 was from pneumonia, sources whisper that loved ones chose to keep the news of the Annie Hall Oscar winner\u2019s debilitating brain disease from the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019d been struggling quietly for some time,\u201d one longtime friend said. \u201cThe people around her knew, but she didn\u2019t want the world to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insiders say she spent her last months at the ultra-exclusive Palm Springs retreat Smoke Tree Ranch to keep her decline secret from public view, and that it got so bad she didn\u2019t even recognize former lover and mentor Woody Allen<\/strong>, 89, when he and wife Soon-Yi Previn<\/strong> visited her this summer.<\/p>\n

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Vertical Entertainment<\/p>\n

Signs of Keaton\u2019s struggle could be glimpsed in 2022 on the set of Maybe I Do, where crew members say she had her lines fed to her through an earpiece \u2014 which is how Bruce Willis<\/strong>, 70, managed to eke out his last few roles before his forced retirement from Hollywood, also in 2022, after a diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was heartbreaking to see,\u201d says a production source about the filming of Maybe I Do. \u201c[Costar] William H. Macy<\/strong> was incredibly kind and supportive, but if there was a break for a meal or anything, it was like starting from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carole Bayer Sager. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager<\/strong> says she was shocked by her longtime friend\u2019s appearance when they last saw each other after the California wildfires earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had lost so much weight,\u201d Sager told People<\/a>. \u201cShe\u2019d been in Palm Springs for months.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Keaton allegedly succumbed to rapid cognitive decline is doubly sad \u2014 given that her mother, Dorothy, suffered from Alzheimer\u2019s for 15 years before dying in 2008. Diane wrote about that painful experience in her 2011 memoir, Then Again<\/a>, detailing how the disease slowly stripped her mom of language and memory.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGoodbye to names of places,\u201d Diane wrote in her diary. \u201cGoodbye to \u2026 recognizing me as her daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keaton leaves behind two adopted children, daughter Dexter<\/strong>, 29, and son Duke<\/strong>, 25.<\/p>\n

This story Diane Keaton Had Been \u2018Struggling Quietly For Some Time\u2019 Before Death: \u2018It Was Heartbreaking to See\u2019<\/a> first appeared on National Enquirer<\/a>. Add National Enquirer as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shocking new details have emerged about the sudden death of beloved actress Diane Keaton \u2014 sources say she…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":341409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[168158,168157,185,168159,150986,171,101655,67,132,68,75209],"class_list":{"0":"post-341408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-annie-hall-oscar-winner","9":"tag-carole-bayer-sager","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-closest-friends","12":"tag-diane-keaton","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-frontotemporal-dementia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-woody-allen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115459059408743025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}