For 16 years, Diane Keaton was “madly in love” with Al Pacino, yet she always wished for something deeper. 💔 “I wanted him to desire me as much as I desired him. I wanted him to love me,” she admitted in the past. 😮 Now, at 79, she has passed away, leaving Al Pacino filled with remorse for not acting when he could have. 😳

Hollywood is mourning the loss of **Diane Keaton**, the Oscar-winning actress who passed away at 79 — but no one feels her absence more deeply than **Al Pacino**, her former lover and lifelong friend. Now 85, the legendary actor has finally opened up about a regret that has haunted him for decades: that he never committed to the woman he calls *“the love of my life.”*

Their story began in the early 1970s on the set of *The Godfather*, where their on-screen chemistry as Michael and Kay Corleone blossomed into a passionate real-life romance. Keaton longed for stability and marriage, especially after losing her father to brain cancer, but Pacino — known for his independence — couldn’t give her what she needed. That hesitation eventually tore them apart.

In her 2011 memoir *Then Again*, Keaton revealed that Pacino once told her during therapy he never planned to marry her. The revelation shattered her, and though they lived just miles apart in Beverly Hills, they never rekindled their love. “There’s no need to talk,” Pacino once told a friend. “We said everything that needed to be said.”

Still, their emotional bond never truly faded. Keaton kept letters and notes from Pacino, including one from 1989 in which he confessed feeling “uncomfortably lonely.” Years later, during Keaton’s 2017 AFI tribute, Pacino surprised the crowd with a heartfelt declaration: *“I love you, forever.”*

Now, as Pacino reflects on her passing, friends say he’s filled with quiet sorrow — mourning not just the woman, but the life they might have shared. “He’ll always regret not making his move when he had the chance,” one close source revealed.

In the end, their love story is both timeless and tragic — proof that even the greatest actors can’t rewrite the script of real life.