LOS ANGELES – In a heart-stopping scene straight out of a Hollywood script, Keanu Reeves, 61, suddenly dropped to one knee in the middle of a quiet Malibu beach walk yesterday afternoon, November 25, 2025, leaving his longtime partner Alexandra Grant frozen in panic, until the “John Wick” legend revealed it was all part of the most dramatic marriage proposal the internet has ever seen.

Eyewitnesses say the couple was strolling hand-in-hand along the shoreline near Paradise Cove around 4:15 p.m. when Reeves abruptly clutched his chest, gasped, and crumpled to the sand. Grant, 52, the acclaimed visual artist who has been with Reeves since 2019, immediately screamed his name and fell beside him, frantically dialing 911 while cradling his head.

“She was hysterical, yelling ‘Keanu! Keanu! Stay with me!’” one onlooker told us. “People started running over, someone shouted for a defibrillator. It looked like a full-blown medical emergency.”

But then, in a twist no one saw coming, Reeves opened his eyes, flashed that trademark gentle smile, reached into his leather jacket pocket… and pulled out a stunning diamond ring.

“Alexandra, my love,” he said, voice steady despite the tears streaming down her face, “I never want to scare you like this again — unless it’s to ask: Will you marry me?”

Grant reportedly burst into a mix of laughter and sobs, nodding furiously before throwing her arms around him. Onlookers erupted into cheers and applause as Reeves slipped the ring — a vintage-style 2.5-carat oval diamond flanked by two smaller stones on a platinum band — onto her finger.

“He planned the whole fake heart attack,” a source close to the couple spilled to Daily Mail. “Keanu wanted something unforgettable, something only he would do. He told friends he practiced collapsing in the mirror for weeks so it looked real.”

The proposal quickly went mega-viral after beachgoers posted shaky phone footage that racked up 47 million views in under six hours. #KeanuProposal shot to number one worldwide on X, with fans losing their minds.

“This man just fake-died to propose. Peak Keanu.”
“Alexandra aged 10 years in 15 seconds and then got engaged. Iconic.”
“Even his proposal is the nicest guy in Hollywood energy.”

The ring, designed by a private Los Angeles jeweler, is said to be inspired by Grant’s own abstract line drawings — the center stone set east-west, symbolizing “two lives merging into one horizon,” according to the designer’s Instagram story that was hastily deleted after the frenzy began.

Reeves and Grant, who made their red-carpet debut as a couple at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in 2019, have always kept their relationship intensely private. They met in 2009 while collaborating on Reeves’ book “Ode to Happiness” and co-founded publishing house X Artists’ Books together. Friends say Reeves has been planning to pop the question for over a year but wanted it to be “perfectly imperfect.”

“Keanu told me he didn’t want the usual fancy dinner or hot-air balloon thing,” a pal revealed. “He said, ‘If I’m going to ask the love of my life to marry me, it has to feel like one of our weird, beautiful art projects — something that scares you a little, then makes you laugh, then makes you cry happy tears.’”

Grant, still wearing the ring (and a massive grin) when paparazzi caught them leaving Nobu Malibu hours later for a celebratory dinner, simply told waiting cameras: “Yes. A thousand times yes. He’s my favorite plot twist.”

As of press time, Reeves’ team has only released a short statement: “Keanu and Alexandra are overwhelmed with love and gratitude. They ask for privacy as they begin this new chapter — and promise no more fake cardiac arrests.”

Hollywood’s most beloved under-the-radar couple is finally heading down the aisle, and they did it in the most Keanu way imaginable: by literally stopping hearts before stealing one forever.