DIANE Keaton’s devastated fans flocked to her final Instagram post hours after news of the star’s death.
The actress, renowned for her roles in Annie Hall, The Godfather, and First Wives Club, died in California on October 11.
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Diane, who was 79 when she passed away, had shared a selection of heartwarming photos of her beloved dog Reggie.
In the collaborative post with Hudson Grace, she celebrated National Pet Day back in April this year.
In one of the photos, she knelt on the floor beside her pup and pointed at a bag of dog biscuits.
A style icon to the end, Diane stacked chunky silver rings on her fingers and wore her signature thick-rimmed glasses.
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Shaken by the passing of the Hollywood icon, Diane’s followers paid tribute.
“A true legend. Thank you for your talent, your animal advocacy, your immeasurable charm. You will be missed,” one wrote.
“Lost one of the greatest actors and lights of this world today,” another said.
A third wrote: “I wasn’t ready for this forever lively legend to be gone so soon.”
“I’m devastated. My favourite of all time,” added a fourth.
The details around Diane’s death are unknown .
A spokesperson told PEOPLE: “There are no further details available at this time, and her family has asked for privacy in this moment of great sadness.”
The actress was nominated for a host of top awards during her career on the silver screen which lasted for over five decades.
Keaton’s starring role saw her win the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 1978 hit Annie Hall.
She also boasted three other Academy Award nominees in the same category across three separate decades.
Last year, she released her debut holiday single First Christmas and told fans she “couldn’t believe it’s finally here”.
Fellow Hollywood heavyweights have also paid tribute to the “icon of style and comedy”.
The First Wives Club co-star Bette Midler said: “The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died.
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me.”
She added: “She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star.
“What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Ben Stiller said of the late actress: “Diane Keaton. One of the greatest film actors ever.
“An icon of style, humor and comedy. Brilliant. What a person.”
Fellow actress at Book Club co-star Mary Steenburge said: “Diane was magic.
“There was no one, nor will there ever be, anyone like her. I loved her and felt blessed to be her friend.
“My love to her family. What a wonder she was!!!”
Before she became a household name across the globe, Keaton had to overcome several health issues back home in Los Angeles.
At the age of 21, she was diagnosed with skin cancer.
Doctors told the then budding young actress she had basal-cell carcinoma – the most common type of cancer.
She fought off the disease but again suffered with another form of cancer later in life in 2011.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in 2015, Keaton said she had a recurrence of squamous cell carcinoma – another type of skin cancer – in her cheek that required her to have a number of surgeries.
She also added that her family have a long history of skin cancer so she was always vigilant of any symptoms.
The cancerous cells were all removed following the operations with Keaton believed to have been living a healthy and happy life in the years before her death.
Her family are yet to disclose what her cause of the death was.
Keaton was also open about her struggles with bulimia throughout her life.
Back in 1968, the director of Hair on Broadway offered Keaton the lead role if she could lose some weight.
Reminiscing on her life with PEOPLE, Keaton recalled shedding “a lot of weight” at the time.
She landed the role but in an effort to please the director continued to shed as much weight as possible.
Keaton recalled: “People were nice enough, but I felt like an outsider.
“I had a problem — it was sick and creepy. Bulimia takes a lot of time out of your day.
“I became a master at hiding. Hiding any evidence – how do you make sure no one knows?
“You live a lifestyle that is very strange. You’re living a lie.”
Her eating disorder then worsened as Keaton admitted to eating up to 20,000 calories a day at the peak of her bulimia struggle.
Breaking down her diet on The Dr Oz Show, Keaton said she would eat “a bucket of fried chicken, several orders of fries with blue cheese and ketchup, a couple of TV dinners, a quarter of soda, pounds of candy, a whole cake, and three banana cream pies”.
She would later be forced to starve herself to lose weight if she wanted to land roles amid pressure to be skinny in Hollywood.
But in 2014, Keaton called her bulimia battle “the lowest point in [her] life”.
She eventually recovered after several years of suffering after taking up therapy.
Speaking with Ellen DeGeneres about her journey, Keaton said: “I talked. I spoke it out. I said my thoughts and feelings.
“And I feel like, once you do that, you own it as opposed to, if you don’t talk about it, it becomes very abstract.
“To keep secrets doesn’t help you at all.
“I think I’m a sister to all the rest of the women – and I’m sure men as well – who have had some kind of eating disorder, and I’m a part of the team.”
Keaton is survived by her two children Dexter, 29, and Duke Keaton, 25.
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