She went on to say, "I basically cried and said, 'I’m going to quit,' and, ‘Don’t sue me, please — I’m sorry, but I can’t do this in front of millions of people.'" Rodriguez's costar, Vin Diesel, took her side, and the cheating scene was dropped. Said Rodriguez, "Vin was the first one to pull me to the side while I was crying, and he just looked at me and said, ‘I got your back. Chill out and let me handle this, and you’re right — it makes me look bad anyway.’ And there you go. That was the beginning of the Letty fairy tale.”
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