A DISTURBING video of Vin Diesel flirting with a female interviewer has resurfaced after he was accused of sexual battery in a bombshell lawsuit.
Online sleuths are digging into the actor after he allegedly forced himself onto his ex-assistant Asta Jonasson during the 2010 filming of Fast & Furious 5.
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Jonasson filed a suit on Thursday that alleges Diesel, 56, grabbed her and pulled her onto his bed when she came to his room at the St. Regis resort in Atlanta to take him to set.
He allegedly kissed her, pulled up her dress and “molested her body” despite her desperate pleas for him to stop, according to the suit.
Diesel finally stopped touching her when she cried out and ran down the hallway toward the bathroom after he allegedly tried to pull down her underwear.
Hours after the incident, Jonasson was allegedly fired, which she is now claiming was punishment for not “fulfilling” Diesel’s sexual desires, the suit states.
Since news broke of the bombshell filing, social media has been alight with horrified fans discussing the allegations.
On Thursday, one X user admitted he’s had a weird feeling about Diesel since he couldn’t stop flirting with a female interview in a now-disturbing 2016 interview.
Diesel was chatting with Brazilian YouTuber Carol Moreira about his appearance in Steven Spielberg’s film Saving Private Ryan when he broke out into a tangent about her looks.
“God you’re so beautiful,” he said in the video, causing the interviewer to laugh and nervously thank him for his compliments.
Diesel continued: “How am I supposed to do this interview? Look at this woman. She’s so beautiful.”
He went on to ask her to “get out of here” and get lunch before expressing his love for her as she tried to redirect the conversation three times.
At the end of the interview, Moreira tried to get him to say a Portuguese phrase to the Brazilian fans, but he responded by saying: “God she’s so f*****g sexy.
“Am I the only one that’s seeing it? Look at her she’s so f*****g beautiful.”
He finished the awkward outburst by advancing toward the YouTuber while pretending that she was magnetic before getting up and walking away.
Social media users have slammed Diesel’s shameless flirting as “creepy” and decided the Fast & Furious star’s behavior has “been weird.”
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Another person called it “one of the creepiest interviews ever” as others said they had no clue Diesel “was like that.”
“She looks so uncomfortable. I’m uncomfortable just watching it,” said one critic in the comments.
Not long after the interview, Moreira released a statement admitting she felt unnerved during his advances.
“I was laughing, completely uncomfortable,” she wrote in Portuguese at the time.
“I was not sure what to do. I just laughed because it was a very delicate situation.
“I did not like it. At the time I did not know how to react, but you will see that I was uncomfortable, it was not nice that he interrupted my work.”
Diesel publicly apologized to Moreira in a Facebook post saying that it was never his intention to “offend” anyone.
“As you all know, I try to keep my interviews playful and fun, especially when I am in the Xander Zone… But if I offended anyone, then let me apologize because that is never my intention,” he said.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Diesel’s agent for comment.
INNOCENT?
The lawsuit filed against Diesel claims sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, hostile work environment, discrimination based on sex/gender, retaliation, and wrongful termination.
Jonasson also accused Diesel and One Race Films of an attempted cover-up of the altercations detailed in the suit, which claims the graduate student “has suffered and continues to suffer humiliation, emotional distress, and mental and physical pain and anguish.”
Diesel’s attorney hit back at the lawsuit in a statement on Thursday night, calling the claims “outlandish.”
“Let me be very clear, Vin Diesel categorically denies this claim in its entirety. This is the first he has ever heard about this more than 13-year-old claim made by a purportedly nine-day employee,” Diesel’s attorney Bryan Freedman said, as reported by Deadline.
“There is clear evidence which completely refutes these outlandish allegations.”
The suit noted that Jonasson maintained her silence since 2010 due to a non-disclosure agreement she signed with One Race Films for employment.
Jonasson also noted in the document that she felt empowered by the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, moving her to “reclaim her agency and justice for the suffering she endured at the hands of Vin Diesel and One Race.”
She has since worked as a production coordinator, among other roles in the entertainment industry, since 2010, per Vanity Fair.
Diesel is set to reprise his role as Dominic Toretto in Fast X: Part 2, which he noted on an Instagram post from June to be slated for a release date of April 4, 2025.
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