Goldie Hawn couldn’t hold back tears while recalling how she found out about First Wives Club costar Diane Keaton’s death.

“I happened to learn when I was in my backyard, and I went over to my backyard to my rose garden,” Hawn, 80, said onstage while speaking at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala on Wednesday, December 3, per People. “I just looked down. She can’t be gone. She just cannot be gone. No one like that should ever die. She just brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance. She was like lightning in a bottle.”

Hawn went on to call her longtime friend an “extraordinary human being” and “amazing actress,” praising the Oscar-winner for all she could “do.”

“Look at this natural aspect of how her body and mind work together and how she’s able to bring us

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