It is reported that the late Diane Keaton struggled with battling hereditary dementia in her final months.
For those who don’t know, the American actress died on October 11, 2025 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California. The Oscar winner’s cause of death was pneumonia.
An old friend of Keaton’s told it Radaronline that she was battling genetically inherited dementia in her final days and was quickly affected by the fact that her family and close friends could not understand what was happening to her.
The grieving family has consciously chosen to hide the family Annie Hall star’s dementia from the public, even as they revealed pneumonia as her cause of death.
“She had been struggling in silence for a while. The people around her knew, but she didn’t want the world to know,” the longtime friend said.
Keaton went to the ultra-exclusive Palm Springs retreat Smoke Tree Ranch in her final months to hide her declining health from the public, and her condition deteriorated so extremely that she was unable to recognize her former mentor and lover Woody Allen when he visited her with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn.
Particularly on the set of the 2022 film Maybe I will, the First Wives Club star struggled to remember her lines and to ease her struggle, they were fed to her through an earpiece.
‘It was heartbreaking to see. [Costar] William H. Macy was incredibly kind and supportive, but if there was a break for a meal or something, it was like starting all over again,” said a crew insider Maybe shared.
