A creepy Vin Diesel interview has resurfaced one day after a bombshell lawsuit was filed accusing the actor of sexual battery.
The 2017 video features Diesel, now 56, and Brazilian YouTuber Carol Moreira as he promotes his movie “XXX: Return of Xander Cage.”
“God, you’re so beautiful, you’re so beautiful, man, am I right or wrong?” Diesel asks in the video.
Moreira thanks him, as he interjects: “How am I supposed to do this interview?
“She’s so beautiful. Let’s get out of here, let’s go have lunch. My God, I love her. Look how beautiful she is, God, I love her, wow,” Diesel continues.
In another portion of the video, he crawls toward her on his knees and says: “She’s so f – – king beautiful, it’s like, you can’t even do an interview with her.”
The video has made its way to X, prompting online disgust over the actors' shocking behavior.
“This is so f – – king creepy holy s – – t,” a fan wrote. “Ewww,” another commented.
A second user chimed in: “One of the cringiest interviews ever. Gross!!”
On December 21, Diesel was sued by his former assistant, accusing him of sexually assaulting her during the 2010 filming of Fast Five.
A lawyer for the actor, real name Mark Sinclair, said his client "denies this claim in its entirety".
In the lawsuit, the accuser, Asta Jonasson, claims that the actor pinned her to a wall as he performed an act on himself.
She is further suing for wrongful termination, claiming his company fired her hours after the attack.
The lawsuit named that the sexual battery took place in Atlanta's St Regis hotel during the filming of Fast Five.
She added in the lawsuit that Sinclair, 56, physically overpowered her in his hotel suite and "ignored Jonasson's clear statements of non-consent" as he groped her.
The lawsuit stater that after she "screamed and ran towards the nearby bathroom", the film star "pinned her against the wall with his body" and performed an act on himself.
"Mere hours" after the incident, the lawsuit says that she was contacted by the actor's sister Samantha Vincent - who runs his production company One Race Films - and was fired.
She is also suing the actor's sister and his production company.
"It was clear to her that she was being fired because she was no longer useful - Vin Diesel had used her to fulfil his sexual desires," the suit claimed.
It adds: "Ms Jonasson felt helpless, her self esteem was demolished, and she questioned her own skills and whether a successful career would require her to trade her body for advancement."
The former assistant also claims that another executive from the company propositioned her in the same hotel a few days before the incident with Mr Sinclair.
In addition to sexual battery, her lawsuit includes claims of gender discrimination, illegal retaliation, emotional distress, and wrongful termination.
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