Video of Vin Diesel's 'creepy' behavior towards female interviewer resurfaces amid lawsuit
Topics: Vin Diesel, Celebrity, Crime
Callum Jones
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Carol Moreira
Topics: Vin Diesel, Celebrity, Crime
A 'creepy' video of Vin Diesel's behaviour towards a female interviewer has resurfaced online amid a recent lawsuit filed against the actor.
The Fast and Furious star has recently been named in a lawsuit by his former assistant, Asta Jonasson.
Jonasson was hired by Diesel's firm One Race to work for him on location in Atlanta while he filmed the fifth instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast Five.
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Jonasson was a recent film-school-program graduate at the time, and her responsibilities working for Diesel - whose real name is Mark Sinclair - included organizing parties and accompanying Diesel to parties, according to Vanity Fair.
The alleged assault is said to have occurred 2010 at the St. Regis hotel.
According to the suit, when the pair were alone, Diesel 'grabbed Ms. Jonasson’s wrists, one with each of his hands, and pulled her onto the bed' in one of the hotel's rooms.
The suit claims that she asked the Guardians of the Galaxy star to stop and managed to escape his grasp, standing by the front door of the suite and was waiting for him to leave.
But Diesel still continued to pursue Jonasson, she claims.
Despite her pleas, he's alleged to have groped her breasts and kissed her chest.
The suit continues to allege: "Ms. Jonasson was afraid to more forcibly refuse her supervisor, knowing that getting him out of that room was both crucial to her personal safety and job security.
"But this hope died when Vin Diesel dropped to his knees, pushed Ms. Jonasson’s dress up toward her waist, and molested her body, running his hands over Ms. Jonasson’s upper legs, including her inner thighs."
Diesel's former assistant further alleges that the actor attempted to pull her underwear down, sparking her to run down the hallway to the bathroom.
She also claims that Diesel then placed her hand on his erect penis despite her ongoing pleas to stop.
UNILAD has previously contacted Vin Diesel's reps for comment.
Following that, a clip from a 2016 interview Diesel did with Carol Moreira in Brazil has since resurfaced.
The interviewer appeared visibly uncomfortable as the actor commented on her looks.
"God, you're so beautiful. God she's so beautiful," Diesel said shortly after the interview began.
Adding: "Am I right or wrong? I mean look at her. How am I supposed to do this interview? Look at this woman. She's so beautiful. Talk to me, baby."
Moreira attempted to continue with the interview as normal, though Diesel said at one point that she was 'so f**king sexy' for him to carry on.
"Man, she's so f****** sexy. I can't do this interview." he said.
Many X - formerly known as Twitter - users have reacted to the clip, with one penning: "This is so f**king creepy holy sh*t."
While someone else said: "Oh man that's creepy."