Diane Keaton prepared a comforting “goodbye” for her children during her last months.
The actress who died on October 11 at the age of 79 was aware that her time was nearly as abandoned “soft” music as a “comfort rug” to comfort her “soon-to-be-light” family when she would no longer be there, via Radaronline.com.
For the unwarterized, Annie Hall Star, made her first and last solo song first Christmas late last year, as she co-wrote with the close friend Carole Bayer cases
According to a close source that had worked with Keaton, the deceased star used to tell her friends that she “knew her time was coming” and would leave “something soft and lasting” for her children.
“Diane told us that this song wasn’t just about loss – it was about love surviving it. She said, ‘When I’m gone, I want them to play it and still feel singing for them.’
Another insider said of the actress, “She was so thin at the end, but still had her glow and twinkle in her eye. She called the song her comfort rug – a way of keeping her children when she couldn’t. Working on first Christmas together was her way of saying goodbye without saying it.”
In particular, cases also remembered to be “stunned” by Keaton’s weak appearance in her last weeks.
The lyrics for Keaton’s last and only song reader, “Now I wish I could let go, it’s a quiet evening, it’s another year, the first Christmas without you here.”
