“He just found out what sex is, like, he’s at that age,” Mayci, 30, said on the Sunday, October 12, episode of the “Sunday Sports Club” podcast. “We had to give him the talk, and I’m like, ‘You are not reading [my] book [until you’re 18].’”
Mayci found out she was pregnant with Hudson at just 19 years old, shortly before her ex-boyfriend and Hudson’s birth father, Arik Mack, died in a car accident. Mayci later married Jacob Neeley, who eventually adopted Hudson. (Mayci and Jacob also share two daughters.)
“When we gave him the sex talk, the thing that he was so upset about was that, ‘I came from a different dad ‘cause you had sex with someone else,’” the MomTok influencer recalled of Hudson’s response. “He found that out, and he was so stunned. He asked my husband, ‘Why did you marry her?’”
According to Mayci, she and Jacob, 30, only gave Hudson the “basic” sex talk.
“He had the basic one, where it’s, like, ‘You have sex to make a baby.’ So, he realized, ‘That’s how I was made,’” she told podcast host Allison Kuch. “Then, he was like, ‘Dad, why did you marry her [if] she did that and had a baby.’ [Kids have] no filter [and] no shame.”
Mayci detailed more of her story in her recently released memoir, Told You So, including how she navigated Arik’s death amid her pregnancy.
“It was the hardest thing in my entire life. The grieving process was so intense,” Mayci exclusively told Us Weekly earlier in October. “There were so many things I wish I would have said, so many regrets of what I said before he passed and so many things I wish I could say or ask him about now. It’s given me a lot of anxiety in my current life. If my husband doesn’t respond within a certain amount of time. I’m like, ‘Did he get in a crash? Are my kids OK?’ I get so freaked out.”
She continued, “I was so, so depressed. … I never thought of really doing anything to hurt myself because I knew it would crush my family — and having my baby in my belly. I knew it wasn’t an option.”
Mayci also told Us how growing up a member of the Mormon church affected her pregnancy overall.
“Those are definitely against the guidelines in the church. I did feel a lot of guilt because we’re taught that sex outside of marriage is like a sin next to murder,” she said. “It’s all the shame and guilt you feel from your upbringing. Then I got into a really religious space once my son’s father passed away because I had to make sense of it.”
Mayci further explained why she chose to “turn toward” religion even more in light of Arik’s death.
“I chose to turn toward it because I needed it to make sense. As far as now goes, I feel like I’m somewhat in the middle,” the reality TV star said of her relationship with the Church of Latter-Day Saints. “I’ve always been someone who’s kind of in the middle. The things that I focus on — at least in my religion — is my relationship with God and being a good person. That is what matters, and making sure my kids feel love and become good people too.”
Glen Powell is all-in on this show as a co-creator and the leading actor. Powell plays Russ Holliday, a college football quarterback who destroyed his dreams of NFL stardom thanks to some horrible decisions that made him a national pariah.
Years later, Russ decides he wants to give college football another try. To do so, he’s assumed a fake identity as Chad Powers and even applied prosthetics to his face and nose. Russ is going to have a lot of trouble maintaining his cover as Chad, and even greater difficulties trying to keep up with college athletes who are younger and stronger than he is.
Ryan Murphy‘s new legal drama is getting a lot of attention because it’s placing Kim Kardashian as the lead in her own show. Whether Kardashian can carry the series remains to be seen, but she’ll have a lot of help from her A-list costars, including Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor and Glenn Close.
Kardashian plays Allura Grant, the leader of a group of female divorce attorneys who have left a male-dominated firm behind to start their own practice. These women can be just as ruthless in the courtroom as their male counterparts, and they won’t necessarily stay on the same page forever. Their new firm has power struggles of its own, and this team may not be above stabbing each other in the back.
All’s Fair will stream on Hulu on November 4, 2025.
3. ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ (2025)
It takes a lot to stand out in the true crime genre, but Mandy Matney‘s Murdaugh Murders Podcast had everything you could ask for, from shocking revelations, hidden crimes, murder and the trial of the century in South Carolina. Hulu’s upcoming miniseries, Murdaugh: Death in the Family, is dramatizing the story, with Brittany Snow starring as Matney.
Jason Clarke and Patricia Arquette play Alex and Maggie Murdaugh, a powerful couple whose life of wealth and privilege is built on a house of cards. That house starts crumbling down when their son, Paul Murdaugh (Johnny Berchtold), is involved in a deadly accident that invites wider scrutiny of the family. Alex will do anything to protect the family’s secrets, or more accurately, his own secrets. And the story only gets wilder from there.
Murdaugh: Death in the Family will stream on Hulu on October 15.
Stay is a horror film with a very intriguing premise. It follows a couple, Kiara (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Miles (Mo McRae), who are on the verge of ending their marriage and parting forever. Or at least they would, if they could physically leave their dream home.
Some supernatural force has locked Miles and Kiara inside their house, and nothing they try seems to get them any closer to escape. It’s as if they’re invisible to people standing outside of their home as they shout for help. But the only people who can get Kiara and Miles out of their personal Hell are each other. And that’s going to take some work.
The original version of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle was a hit thriller three decades ago, and the remake is going straight to Hulu. Scream queen Maika Monroe leads the cast as Polly Murphy, a woman who has a serious grudge against her new employer, Caitlyn Morales (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
Polly has been hired as a nanny for Caitlyn’s infant daughter, and she uses that position to begin destroying the family from the inside out. That means attempting to seduce Caitlyn’s husband, Miguel Morales (Raúl Castillo), befriending the couple’s oldest daughter, Emma (Mileiah Vega), and framing Caitlyn as a hopeless drug addict. If Caitlyn wants to salvage the life she’s built with her family, then she needs to figure out how she can fight back without making herself look even worse to her loved ones.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle will stream on Hulu on October 22.
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Netflix’s Boots introduced viewers to a group of aspiring Marine recruits who endure severe physical challenges, emotional pitfalls and even a surprise death — but how did the season end?
The show, which premiered on Thursday, October 9, follows Cameron (Miles Heizer) as he joins the American military alongside his best friend Ray (Liam Oh) during the 1990s. Cameron has to hide his sexuality while trying to make it through basic training alongside Slovacek (Kieron Moore), Hicks (Angus O’Brien), Nash (Dominic Goodman), John (Blake Burt), Cody (Brandon Tyler Moore) and Ochoa (Johnathan Nieves).
The recruits make progress when suddenly Ochoa dies after he called home and found out his wife was having an affair. The stress caused Ochoa to act out and a confrontation with Sergeant Howitt (Nicholas Logan) led to the teenager triggering a heart condition that ended his life.
“That was a very big turning point in the show. It’s a huge tragedy in a lot of ways. And it really challenges and cements a lot of the relationships that are being tested and the relationships that are being formed in the show,” he noted. “For a lot of the guys, it’s an eye opening moment. They realize this is real and isn’t a joke anymore.”
While breaking down the emotional moment, O’Brien reflected on how it affected his character, adding, “Hicks was looking for a thrill or looking for excitement or entertainment. In that moment, there’s these beautiful things that happen with tragedy sometimes where you get to see how people show up for each other and comfort each other. I don’t know that Hicks was ever necessarily the type to value that kind of behavior. But for whatever reason at boot camp, it shifts something in him.”
O’Brien continued: “There is a deeper mutual respect that all the recruits share after that moment. Speaking for myself, I would say that’s something that’s added to Hicks after that moment is just that not everything has to be a joke, even though it’s fun when a lot of things are a joke.”
During the show’s first season, an overarching story line features Cameron existing as a gay man in the military. This served as a parallel to Sergeant Sullivan (Max Parker), who pushed Cameron to keep that aspect of himself hidden because Sullivan was in a similar position as a closeted man in the army.
O’Brien discussed the way Boots creates a conversation about authenticity.
“The experience of shooting the show was a reminder to me that no matter how different we might think we are from someone, ultimately we want the same things. We want to be happy, we want to be respected and we want to live a life that’s fulfilled,” he noted. “What’s so beautiful about the show is that you have all these guys from very different walks of life who wouldn’t necessarily think to depend on each other. Because of the situation that they’re in, they’re forced to rely on each other and they realize through that how powerful it is to depend on someone who has lived a different life than you — and how many lessons there are to learn from that.”
The actor is hopeful that viewers take that message away from the show, saying, “There are people to depend on and to rely on in all different walks of life. Don’t count someone out just because you think they’re not going to support you. They might. They want the same things you do.”
By the time Boots comes to an end, all of the remaining recruits pass training and are ready to serve. The last scene shows the group celebrating their success before getting distracted by news coverage of an ongoing invasion that reminds them of what comes next — actual military service.
Moore, who opened up about bringing the show’s misunderstood antagonist, didn’t rule out another season, telling Us, “I think we only scratch the surface for Slovacek ahead of season 2. If we get to go again, it’d be a really wonderful story to explore him a little bit more. I’m just hoping that audience members are curious about him.”
He continued: “All of the characters are remarkable but I know that for me and people around me, everyone knows the Slovacek that doesn’t really get the time to become something. I think he’s a very representative of a lot of young men out there that just need some guidance. They’ve got a skill and abundance, passion and abundance.
Elsbeth returns for its third season with a cameo from Stephen Colbert — which almost didn’t happen.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, star Carrie Preston previewed the premiere, which was filmed shortly after Colbert’s The Late Showwas controversially canceled.
“It was really serendipitous because for months and months we had been working to get these actors on the show. [Executive producer] Jonathan Tolins wrote the script specifically for Stephen Colbert,” Preston, 58, recalled. “Then the week before we were about to start filming, it was announced that his show was done.”
While Colbert, 61, figured out his next steps, the show’s creative time was “very nervous,” with Preston adding, “We were concerned that he was going to be too busy dealing with that and he wouldn’t be able to come. But he came and not only did he come but he came fully prepared. He was fully game and so happy to be there.”
“He was such a great actor. He was so fun to play with and it was everything that you wanted it to be and more,” she continued. “I was a huge fan of Amy Sedaris for so long. I had only just met her socially once or twice. So to have her on the show, she was so funny and the crew loved her. I was basically begging her to be my friend by the end. I just think she’s fantastic.”
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Preston continued: “And then Andy Richter too. He’s playing a sidekick on a talk show but he was the sidekick on the talk show forever [with Late Night, The Tonight Show and Conan]. But they’re all different characters. I just thought it was really brilliant and that the timing worked out so well that they were all available to come and play with us.”
The season 3 premiere, which airs Sunday, October 12, follows Elsbeth as she investigates tensions in the world of late-night comedy between a talk show host (Colbert), his head writer (Sedaris) and her husband (Richter).
Sunday’s episode also introduces new officer Grace Hackett (Lindsay Mendez), who is one of several police officers Elsbeth will work with after Kaya (Carra Patterson) left for an undercover opportunity.
“[This season] it works so well with the detectives. But with every case that Elsbeth goes on, it is not going to be the same detective every time. So we already had that set up with different detectives stepping in and now we’re doing the same thing with the uniformed officers,” Preston explained. “She’ll click with people in different ways.”
“It keeps the show fresh and it keeps Elsbeth on her game more. She’s working with newer people, younger people and people that she hasn’t met before. So she’s getting to know people,” she noted. “I don’t know if we will ever land on just one. Anything can happen. But I really love the new people that we are working with now.”
Elsbeth season 3 premieres on CBS Sunday, October 12, at 9:30 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Paramount+.
….After five years of economic hardship under the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) from 2020 to 2025, the new Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government faces the monumental task of repairing a damaged economy, restoring confidence, and setting Malawi back on a path to sustainable growth.
How long does it take to fix an economy that has been damaged for five years?
This question now defines the enormous challenge facing the new Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government as it takes over from the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), whose administration between 2020 and 2025 left behind a trail of economic distress, fiscal indiscipline, and widespread frustration among citizens.
The period from 2020 to 2025 was marked by one of the most difficult economic phases in Malawi’s democratic history.
During this time, inflation soared, the Malawi Kwacha depreciated sharply, public debt ballooned, and the cost of living became unbearable for most households.
Indeed, official figures show that inflation in 2024 averaged around 32.2 percent, up from more moderate levels in earlier years.
Mutharika taking office outh to 2030
By contrast, in 2019 inflation was significantly lower, hovering in low double digits or below in some months, which meant that consumer price stability was more attainable and household planning less volatile.
Foreign exchange reserves also became dangerously low.
In 2024, Malawi’s foreign exchange reserves covered just about 2.1 months of import needs, far below the ideal threshold of three to six months that many economists demarcate as sufficient cover.
Public debt in 2024 stood at about 84.5 percent of GDP, slightly down from over 90 percent in 2023, but still extremely high and unsustainable in the absence of revenue growth and strict fiscal discipline.
The GDP growth rate also tells a worrying story.
Between 2011-2019, Malawi averaged around 4.1 percent real GDP growth annually, but since 2020 growth has dropped sharply. In 2024, the growth rate was around 1.8 percent, according to the World Bank’s Malawi Economic Monitor.
Population growth remained at about 2.6 percent per year over that same period, which meant that incomes per capita stagnated or even fell, as economic growth did not keep up with demographic expansion.
By 2025, reserve levels had improved only marginally, but the import cover remained fragile, and households continued to feel the effects of currency weakness through high import costs, especially for fuel, medicines, and agricultural inputs.
Unemployment among youth soared, while small and medium enterprises struggled to survive amidst reduced consumer demand, high cost of credit, and challenges in accessing foreign exchange.
Corruption scandals and policy inconsistencies eroded both domestic and international confidence in Malawi’s economic management.
By 2025, Malawi’s economy was in distress — public institutions weakened, fiscal deficits widened, and donor confidence dwindled due to poor governance and lack of fiscal transparency.
Now, with the DPP returning to power, Malawians are once again looking to Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and his new administration for answers, stability, and hope.
The first challenge for the DPP government is stabilization — to stop the economic bleeding and restore macroeconomic balance.
This means tightening government spending, reducing unnecessary borrowing, and ensuring that public resources are allocated to productive sectors rather than consumption.
Economic experts often suggest that genuine recovery from a prolonged economic downturn takes five to ten years, depending on the scale of damage and consistency of reforms.
In Malawi’s case, recovery will depend on whether the DPP can implement credible fiscal reforms, rebuild investor confidence, and foster a culture of accountability within public institutions.
Short-term stabilization policies may involve painful adjustments such as reducing subsidies, rationalizing public sector employment, and reforming state-owned enterprises that have long drained public resources.
While such measures may initially be unpopular, they are essential to restore fiscal discipline and lay the foundation for long-term growth.
The second phase of recovery must focus on structural transformation — building a resilient economy that is not overly dependent on imports or donor aid.
This will require modernizing agriculture, improving productivity, and investing in value addition to make Malawi’s exports more competitive.
The government must also prioritize industrialization and energy security, as these are key to creating jobs and supporting private sector-led growth.
Infrastructure development — especially in transport, energy, and digital connectivity — should form the backbone of the DPP’s economic recovery plan.
Equally important is restoring public trust.
Citizens must see transparency in how government resources are used and how decisions are made.
Without trust, even the best economic policies can fail to achieve the desired outcomes.
The DPP must therefore strengthen anti-corruption institutions, promote meritocracy in public appointments, and ensure that economic opportunities are fairly distributed across the country.
Another critical area for reform is monetary policy.
The Reserve Bank of Malawi must maintain independence and focus on stabilizing the currency while ensuring that credit flows to productive sectors such as agriculture, mining, and manufacturing.
Exchange rate management will be central to recovery, as Malawi’s dependence on imports makes it vulnerable to external shocks.
The DPP government will also need to rebuild relationships with development partners, the IMF, and the World Bank to regain access to concessional financing and technical support.
However, the ultimate solution lies in domestic productivity — increasing Malawi’s capacity to produce, export, and generate jobs for its population.
Public-private partnerships can play a transformative role in sectors such as renewable energy, agro-processing, and infrastructure, where long-term investments can yield sustainable returns.
Social protection will remain important during this transition.
As reforms take effect, vulnerable populations must be cushioned via targeted programs in education, healthcare, and food security to prevent social instability.
Expectations vs. Reality now becomes central to understanding what Malawians needed and what they must still demand.
When Malawians voted for change in 2025, their expectations were clear and deeply rooted in the hardships of the previous five years.
The majority of voters wanted economic relief, job creation, stable prices, and a reduction in corruption.
For millions, the change of government represented not just a political transition, but a lifeline — a belief that a new administration under Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and Dr. Jane Ansah could deliver where the previous government had failed.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) campaigned on promises to fix the economy, bring back investor confidence, and restore basic affordability in food, fuel, and transport.
Ordinary Malawians, particularly those in urban centers and farming districts, expect quick solutions to the cost of living crisis that saw the price of maize rise from modest levels in pre-2020 years to levels that in some parts now require double or more as much Kwacha.
Public service workers — from teachers to nurses — hope for stable salaries and timely payments, after years of arrears and shrinking purchasing power due to inflation.
The private sector anticipates an improved business environment, with reliable electricity, access to foreign exchange, and fewer bureaucratic bottlenecks.
Young people, who make up over 60 percent of the population, demand opportunity — through skills training, entrepreneurship, and access to credit.
However, the economic reality facing the new DPP government is sobering.
According to the IMF Executive Board’s Article IV Consultation with Malawi (July 2025), economic activity in 2024 was hindered by lower-than-expected agricultural output and critical foreign exchange shortages, resulting in a decline of real GDP growth to 1.8 percent, down from around 5.4 percent in 2019.
Also in 2024, the fiscal deficit stood at 10.1 percent of GDP, due to lower revenues, election-related spending, and an escalating interest payment burden.
Poverty rates rose above 70 percent of the population, with many households falling deeper into food insecurity and struggling to meet basic needs.
The new government thus inherits a situation where the cost of recovery is high, both financially and socially.
To see real improvements — in inflation, in foreign exchange stability, in job creation — Malawians should reasonably expect some visible changes within 18 to 24 months, though many of these will be modest.
Complete restoration of confidence, stable investment, and a return to growth rates of 4-5 percent (as seen before 2020) may take three to five years of consistent, disciplined policy, strong governance, and external support.
Lessons from neighbouring and regional economies can offer guidance.
Consider Botswana, which in 2024 endured a contraction of 3.3 percent, largely due to weak diamond markets and external headwinds, but is projected to rebound with 3-4 percent growth in 2025 as mineral revenues recover and non-mining sectors improve.
Botswana’s strategy includes reducing its fiscal deficit from around 6.75 percent of GDP in one year to about 3.6 percent in the next; diversifying exports; and stimulating growth outside the mining sector to buffer against fluctuations in global demand.
Kenya provides another example: after the global recession of 2008-2009 and internal political shocks, Kenya implemented stimulus programs, infrastructure spending, and reforms in fiscal management. Over time, these contributed to restoring growth to above 5 percent annually. While Kenya’s challenges differ from Malawi’s, its experience shows that political will, investment in infrastructure, and macro-economic stability are key to recovery.
Similarly, Rwanda transformed its post-1994 economy by political stability, strong governance, investment in human capital, and prioritizing export sectors — tourism, coffee, tea, technology — which allowed it to recover faster than many peers.
These comparative cases suggest that Malawi can shorten its recovery timeframe if the DPP government prioritizes discipline, transparency, and strategic investment.
In Malawi, there are already signs that the new administration is making correct appointments to anchor fiscal policy. The appointment of an experienced economist, Joseph Mwanamvekha, as Finance Minister, is one signal that technical competence is being considered seriously.
Tobacco export revenues also offer a point of optimism: despite drought, tobacco revenue rose by about 40 percent in the April–August season of 2024 compared to the previous year, showing resilience in one of Malawi’s main export commodities.
However, the challenge remains in converting such individual wins into broad-based stability and growth for all sectors of the economy.
Economic reforms must be matched with social protections to prevent widespread hardship, especially in rural and informal sectors heavily impacted by inflation and currency instability.
Furthermore, external shocks — droughts, climate change, food price fluctuations, and aid dependency — remain real risks that could derail recovery unless mitigated by planning and investment in resilience.
The DPP government must also avoid repeating mistakes of past administrations: shifting policy directions too often, relying on unsustainable debt, and underestimating the political cost of reforms.
If DPP succeeds in maintaining stable macroeconomic policies, diversifying sources of growth, controlling inflation, and restoring trust, then Malawi could by 2029-2030 approach economic indicators similar to those of 2019 — growth around 4-5 percent, moderate inflation, improved foreign exchange reserves, reduced fiscal deficits, and increasing investment.
Yet citizens must remain engaged: holding leaders accountable, insisting on transparency, and demanding that promises translate into concrete development in health, education, roads, and jobs.
Fixing an economy that has been damaged for five years isn’t easy — but it is possible.
It demands vision, patience, public involvement, and leadership anchored in integrity.
The next few years are a defining moment for Malawi: if the DPP rises to the challenge, the country’s story may shift from decline to recovery, from fear to confidence, and from promise unfulfilled to progress realized.
“She was an absolutely wonderful actress — and a rare and fascinating person,” Farrow, 80, wrote about Keaton via Instagram on Saturday, October 11. “Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.”
Keaton’s spokesperson announced her death at age 79 and asked for “privacy” on behalf of the Oscar winner’s family on Saturday, though no official details have been released. (Keaton is survived by her two children, daughter Dexter and son Duke, whom she adopted as a single mom well into her 50s.)
Allen, 89, dated Keaton — as well as her sisters Robin Keaton and Dory Keaton — in the 1970s. Diane went on to star in several of the filmmaker’s 1970s comedies and won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Allen’s 1977 movie, Annie Hall.
Their romantic relationship fizzled by the end of the 70s, though they remained close friends and collaborators. Farrow became Allen’s cinematic muse starting with 1982’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy and, as a result, they too had a long romantic relationship.
During their 12 years together, Allen and Farrow adopted two children, daughter Dylan and son Moses. The pair also had a biological son, Ronan.(Farrow has 11 other children.)
Farrow split from Allen in 1992 after discovering his affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. (Allen and Previn married in 1997 and share two children.)
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in June 2017.Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI
During the couple’s highly-publicized custody battle in 1992, the former couple’s daughter Dylan accused Allen of assaulting her when she was 7 years old. Dylan repeated those accusations in a 2014 New York Times op-ed and again in HBO’s four-part 2021 docuseries, Allen v. Farrow. Allen has always strenuously denied any wrongdoing and was never criminally charged.
Keaton stood by Allen in the wake of the scandal, telling More magazine in 2014 that Dylan’s accusations did not impact her friendship with the director.
“I’m Woody’s friend and I’ve been Woody’s friend for 45 years,” she said at the time. “And nothing’s going to change that.”
That same year, Keaton accepted the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement on Allen’s behalf at the Golden Globes. (Allen has famously refused to attend Hollywood award shows since the 1970s.)
When Dylan’s accusations against Allen resurfaced in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Keaton tweeted in 2018 that she trusted the filmmaker. Keaton also shared a link to Allen’s 1992 “no holds barred” interview with 60 Minutes, where he denied abusing his daughter.
“Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him. It might be of interest to take a look at the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you think,” she wrote via X (formerly Twitter).
For her part, Mia told The Hollywood Reporter that she never held anything against actors, who chose to work with Allen after Dylan’s accusations were made public.
“I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him,” she said in September 2024. “I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.’”
In the wake of Keaton’s death, many of her former costars — including cast members from Father of the Bride, Book Club and The First Wives Club — paid tribute to her incredible Hollywood legacy.
Goldie Hawn wrote via Instagram on Saturday, “Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you. You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination. How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can’t tell me to ‘shut up’ honey. There was, and will be, no one like you.”
“It’s hard to believe…or accept…that Diane has passed,” Jane Fonda acknowledged. “She was always a spark of life and light, constantly giggling at her own foibles, being limitlessly creative…in her acting, her wardrobe, her books, her friends, her homes, her library, her world view. Unique is what she was. And, though she didn’t know it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a fine actress!”
Keaton’s career in Hollywood lasted nearly 60 years, with her final movie role being 2024’s comedy Summer Camp.
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Diane Keaton reportedly faced upheaval with her health in the final months before her death at age 79.
Keaton’s spokesperson announced on Saturday, October 11, that the actress had died at age 79 without offering any further details. Her family “asked for privacy” as they grieved their immense loss.
Us Weekly reached out to Keaton’s representatives for comment on her death.
A friend of Keaton’s subsequently told People the Annie Hall star’s health “declined very suddenly” in her last few months as she withdrew from public life. While Keaton was once a fixture of her Brentwood, California, neighborhood — including taking daily walks with her dog Reggie — she suddenly stopped appearing in public earlier this year, according to her friend.
Keaton reportedly chose to keep the nature of her health issues private from many of her friends, choosing instead to surround herself only with her “her closest family.” She was the mother of two children: daughter Dexter and son Duke, whom she had adopted when they were babies.
In March, it was reported that Keaton put her 1920s-style Sullivan Canyon home on the market and even slashed $1.4 Million off the asking process in hopes of selling it quickly. The news was particularly shocking since Keaton practically rebuilt the property from the ground up.
She walked fans through her meticulous multi-year renovation in her 2017 design guide The House That Pinterest Built, in which she detailed how using Pinterest boards helped increase the 9,200 square foot residence’s value. (Keaton bought the Sullivan Canyon estate for $4.7 million in 2011, before putting it on the market for $27.5 million earlier this year.)
Speaking to Architectural Digest in 2017, Keaton mentioned how “soothing” it was to rely on other people’s design innovations from Pinterest while remodeling her home.
“I’m still in love with it; I’m still in love with Pinterest!” she exclaimed happily. “To me, it’s soothing, because you’re also on a hunt. It leads to something else, and that leads to something else, and it just goes on and on. And that’s the light you want — the light from the computer. It just makes everything look better.”
Diane Keaton in February 2004.Vince Bucci/Getty Images
Aside from Pinterest, Keaton took surprising inspiration for the remodeling process from the classic children’s fable, The Three Little Pigs.
“[The pigs’ house] was made of bricks,” she wrote in The House That Pinterest Built. “I knew I was going to live in a brick house when I grew up.”
The Academy Award-winning actress was survived by her two children, Dexter and Duke, whom she adopted in her 50s. She never married, though she had high-profile romances with costars Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty in the 1970s.
Many of Keaton’s friends, co-stars and famous fans offered poignant tributes following the shocking news of the Hollywood legend’s death.
“This breaks my heart,” Keaton’s Father of the Bride costar Kimberly Williams-Paisley wrote. “Getting to work with Diane Keaton will always be one of the highlights of my life. Thank you for your kindness, your generosity, your talent, and above all, your laughter.”
Josh Gad described Keaton’s death as a “monumental loss” for Hollywood, adding: “Diane Keaton in many ways defined my love of movies. From Annie Hall to the Godfather films, from First Wives Club to Baby Boom, from Father of the Bride to Something’s Gotta Give, here [sic] resume was nothing short of iconic and hall of fame worthy.”
The Frozen actor referenced other recent deaths of Hollywood titans as he admitted there simply “are no replacements for a Gene Hackman or a Robert Redford or a Diane Keaton.”
“They were the mavericks who helped redefine movies for a generation and losing them feels like also losing a chance inactive tissue to that golden age just out of reach,” Gad concluded. “My heart goes out to Diane’s entire family during this impossible moment. RIP.”
