Getty Images/Jonathan Leibson(SAO PAULO) — Vin Diesel says he is still reeling, nearly three years to the day since he lost his dear friend Paul Walker. Walker died in a fiery car crash in 2013, a passenger in a Porsche driven by friend Roger Rodas, who also perished.
“The last three years have been some of the hardest of my life because of losing my brother like that,” Diesel told Entertainment Tonight about Walker.
In fact, he spoke to ET at Brazil Comic-Con and said being there felt wrong, being that, “both times that I’ve been here, I’ve always been with my brother, Pablo. It was a lot of tissues and it was a hard morning for me yesterday because I was here,” he said.
“But the irony is the whole cast reached out and his daughter, Meadow, reached out and all that stuff helps you get through it.”
Diesel was in Brazil also promoting his new xXx movie, and said after finishing Furious 7 without Walker, this was a welcome change. Diesel had worked with Walker on the Furious franchise since it began 15 years ago.
“Never in my life did I need to do a movie where I could laugh and smile and enjoy myself more than right now, more than the time I made this movie,” he said.
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