Diane Keaton prepared a comforting “goodbye” for her children during her final months.
The actress, who died on October 11 at the age of 79, was aware that her time was near, so she left the “soft” music as a “blanket of comfort” to comfort her soon-to-be grieving family when she was no longer there, via radaronline.com.
For the unversed, The Annie Hall star, made her first and last solo song, First Christmas, late last year, which she co-wrote with her close friend Carole Bayer Sager.
According to a close source, who had worked with Keaton, the late star often told friends that he “knew his time would come” and wanted to leave “something soft and lasting” for his children.
“Diane told us that this song wasn’t just about loss, it was about love surviving. She said, ‘When I’m gone, I want you to play it and feel like I’m still singing to you.'”
A second source said of the actress: “She was very thin at the end, but she still had her sparkle and sparkle in her eyes. She called the song her comfort blanket, a way to hug her children when she couldn’t. Working together on First Christmas was her way of saying goodbye without saying it.”
Notably, Sager also recalled being “shocked” by Keaton’s weak appearance in his final weeks.
The lyrics of Keaton’s last and only song say: “Now I wish I could let it go, it’s a silent night, it’s another year, the first Christmas without you here.”
