VIDEO: Vin Diesel Reveals He Has Named His New Baby After FURIOUS 7 Co-Star Paul Walker

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Vin Diesel appeared on this morning's TODAY to reveal exclusively that he and his longtime girlfriend PALOMA Jimenez have named their new baby after late "Furious 7" star Paul Walker. "I named her Pauline," he revealed to Today's Natalie Morales.

He continued, "I'm telling you this because I love you. I know that you are a good soul, and I know that this is in good hands."

Diesel co-starred in five of the seven "Fast and the Furious" films with Paul Walker. Vin Diesel maintains that Walker was present in the delivery room when his baby arrived. "He was in the room," he said. "There's no other person that I was thinking about as I was cutting this umbilical cord. I just ... knew he was there." He adds, "It felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world." Watch the appearance below!

"Furious 7," Walker's last film, opens in theaters nationwide April 3.

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