Video of Vin Diesel's 'Creepy' Behavior With Female Interviewer Resurfaces

Video footage of Vin Diesel incessantly flirting with a Brazilian YouTuber as she interviewed him has resurfaced, after the actor was accused of sexual battery by a former assistant.

In a recently filed lawsuit obtained by Newsweek, Asta Jonasson has accused Fast and Furious star Diesel, 56, of forcing himself on her in a hotel suite in Atlanta while the pair were working together on Fast Five.

Jonasson said that she attempted to escape the suite after Diesel allegedly forced her onto his bed. He then allegedly groped her and performed a sex act. Jonasson alleges that after eventually fleeing the actor's room, she she was fired from her job.

"It was clear to her that she was being fired because she was no longer useful—Vin Diesel had used her to fulfill his sexual desires and she had resisted his sexual assaults," the lawsuit states.

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Diesel via email for comment.

As news of the lawsuit circulated, social media users have reposted a video clip of Diesel's 2016 interview in Brazil with Carol Moreira, who was visibly uncomfortable as he commented on her beauty and how sexy she was.

Shortly after the interview began, Diesel overlooked Moreira's questions and complimented her looks.

"God, you're so beautiful. God she's so beautiful," declared Diesel, who sported sunglasses during the interview.

Looking off camera, he said: "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."

While Moreira attempted to redirect Diesel back to her interview questions, the actor at one point said that she was "too sexy" for him to continue.

"Man, she's so f****** sexy. I can't do this interview," the screen star added, sparking awkward laughs from his interviewer.

When Moreira brought up their shared love of Dungeons & Dragons, Diesel responded: "I'm anything like you because I love you."

"Guys, really? Look how beautiful she is," he continued. "You guys think this is a joke. How am I supposed to sit here when I'm looking at such beauty? She's so beautiful. I'm in love. I'm in love with the interviewer!"

Moreira later addressed her experience in her introduction to the video.

"He began to hit on me in the middle of the interview, say that I was pretty, and he interrupted the interview three times to talk about it. I was laughing, completely uncomfortable," she said in Portuguese, translated by the New York Daily News.

"I did not like it," she added. "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."

One day after the interview surfaced, XXX: Return of Xander Cage star Diesel posted an uncut version of the interview on Facebook, and issued an apology.

"As you all know, I try to keep my interviews playful and fun, especially when I am in the Xander Zone," he wrote. "But if I offended anyone, then let me apologize, because that is never my intention."

Seven years after the video came to light, it was this week posted on X, formerly Twitter, where one person commented: "I gotta say, I've always had a weird feeling about Vin Diesel since I saw this video years back."

"This woman is a Brazilian journalist, and all Vin Diesel's Brazilian (male) fans were harassing her, after she said how uncomfortable she was in this interview," another wrote on the social media platform.

"Can't see Vin Diesel the same way again," one X user stated, while another said that the video clip of the actor with Moreira was "so creepy."

While Diesel's behavior in the video attracted a wave of criticism, several X users stepped forward to defend the actor.

"With all the false claims that have come out lately against so many, I can only say, show me the evidence" one commented. "Until then I'm not passing judgment."

Hitting back at detractors who had branded Diesel "so weird," another said that the video shows the actor "flirting with a woman (who looks to be enjoying it)."

"Have y'all never flirted?? Like damn," wrote another in response to the criticism.

Jonasson is suing Diesel and his company for creating a hostile work environment, negligent supervision and wrongful termination, among her other claims.