Diane Keaton on being single at 77 and how it’s ‘highly unlikely’ she’ll date again

Diane Keaton is finished with courting.

“I do not date,” the 77-year-old Annie Corridor mentioned in an AARP the Journal profile. “Extremely unlikely. I don’t bear in mind anybody calling me, going, ‘That is So-and-So. I would wish to take you out.’ They do not occur. After all not.”

Keaton’s exes embrace Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino, however she by no means married. She adopted her two kids — Dexter, 27, and Duke, 22 — after 50. She’s now an empty-nester.

“They’re nice,” she mentioned of her now-adult kids. “They’re doing good.” It is famous that Dexter is now married and Duke resides on his personal.

Her primary companion nowadays is a golden retriever, Reggie, given to her by a pal who thought she wanted a canine.

“I did not even ask for her,” she mentioned of Reggie. “He got here to me and mentioned, ‘I believe you want this canine.’ I used to be like, ‘OK, I assume?’ After all, now I simply love her. Canines are irresistible. They’re simply idiots. Reggie is an enormous jerk, and he or she’s an amazing jerk, and he or she’s hilarious.”

Keaton additionally talked about being a social media star in her 70s with 2.4 million Instagram followers. She admitted she as a small group to assist her together with her posts, saying, “I want the assistance, and I cherish it. It is like making little films, in a method. It is collaborative.”

One latest video, of her dancing to Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers,” went viral and has over 1 million likes.

“It was simply a type of days once I thought, ‘I’ll do one thing silly,’“ she mentioned of the submit. “The music was on, I used to be open air and thought, ‘What the heck.’ It occurred out of nothing.”

Keaton has been candid about not courting in her 60s and 70s. In an interview in January, she mentioned she hasn’t been on a date in 15 years. “They in all probability simply thought, ‘Sufficient’s sufficient… she’s too bizarre,'” the Academy Award winner instructed Additional. “I am sort of odd, however I am doing high-quality.”

In 2019, she mentioned it had been even longer since she dated — 35 years. “No dates,” she instructed InStyle. “I’ve a whole lot of male buddies. I’ve a whole lot of buddies, however no dates. No mwah-mwah.”

As for by no means marrying, “I did not wish to hand over my independence,” she mentioned on the In the present day present in 2021. Nevertheless, she added, “By the way in which, nobody has ever requested me to marry them, both, in order that may be an excellent reply. I ought to’ve began with that and known as it a day.”