“Wife” was a role Diane Keaton never wanted.
Prior to the Oscar winner’s death at age 79, she had several high-profile romances with fellow costars including Warren Beatty, Al Pacino and her Annie Hall costar Woody Allen, but she often spoke about why she preferred living single, and ultimately never married.
“I think that I’m strange,” Diane—who welcomed kids Dexter, 29, and Duke, 25, through adoption—admitted to People in a 2019 interview. “I think I’m the only one in my generation and maybe before who has been a single woman all her life.”
However, the Because I Said So actress admitted she felt she was missing a “nurturing” quality that was expected of married women.
“I think that I needed more of a maternal aspect,” she considered. “I don’t think it would have been a good idea for me to have married, and I’m really glad I didn’t, and I’m sure they’re happy about it, too.”
As she put it, “I’m an oddball.”
And though Diane had no problem pursuing some flings in her life, she never felt pulled to be a wife.
