Paying tribute. Vin Diesel
honored his late friend Paul Walker
in a huge way, the Furious 7 actor
revealed on the Today show on Monday, March 23.
"While I was in the hospital, the name that I will
give you is... I named her... I named her Pauline," an emotional Diesel,
47, told Today's Natalie Morales of his and
girlfriend Paloma Jimenez's newborn baby
girl.
The longtime couple named their daughter after Walker,
welcoming the new addition earlier this month. Diesel and model Jimenez, 31,
are already the parents to daughter Hania, 6, and
son Vincent, 4.
"There's no other person that I was thinking about
as I was cutting this umbilical cord," Diesel shared of Walker and his
welcoming of the tiny tot. "I just thought... I knew he was there and it
felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of
my world."
The action star lost his close friend and costar in
November 2013, when Walker died in a tragic car crash at the age of 40. Next
month, the late star will make his final appearance in the Fast & Furious franchise, when Furious 7 hits theaters.
Walker was in the middle of the filming schedule for his Furious 7 scenes before his
untimely death, and his brothers Cody and Caleb stepped in to finish his
work.
The beloved actor was remembered by his Fast & Furious costars after
his death, and just last week Diesel broke down while introducing the upcoming
film at the South by Southwest film festival.
"This was a labor of love," he told the crowd
of Furious 7 as he teared up.
"It was in some ways the hardest movie I ever had to do because the
relationships that you see on film are so real. When the tragedy happened, I
lost my best friend. I lost my brother."
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