Goldie Hawn teared up as she spoke about her close friendship with the late Diane Keaton.

“She just brought so much joy, so much life, so much exuberance,” Hawn said onstage during the Women in Entertainment Gala Wednesday. “She was like lightning in a bottle.”

“There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do,” she continued. “There wasn’t any world that she couldn’t live in. She was just an extraordinary human being.”

Hawn — who starred alongside Keaton in “The First Wives Club” — broke down in tears while remembering when they lived in neighboring buildings.

“It was just the greatest thing knowing she was just below me,” Hawn, 80, said. ” … She was always on my mind, she was so close to me.”

Hawn also recalled the moment she found out the “Annie Hall” star had died.

“Then, came time when she

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