Maxine Lovell and her daughter Maati had an unexpected run-in with Wu-Tang Clan wildcard Ol' Dirty Bastard in 1998. They tell the story in documentary Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys.
Maati, who was just four years old at the time, was hit by a car while walking with her older sister, causing her to become pinned under a '96 Ford Mustang. “Maati was nowhere,” Maxine said in the exclusive clip provided People. “I couldn't find her. And I kept saying, “Where's my daughter? where is my daughter Where is my daughter?' And they all said “Under the car.” When I bent down all I saw was her. And she wasn't crying. he didn't scream, but when he saw me, then he screamed.”
Adding, “Some brothers came out of nowhere. They lifted the car. Someone slipped [Maati] below. He didn't cry or scream. She didn't know what had happened to her. But when he saw my face, he started to cry.”
One of the people who helped lift the car was none other than ODB after noticing the commotion in front of Papa Wu's Brooklyn Sounds recording studios on Fulton Street. There is a news article about the accident at Daily News and spoke to help Maati The Howard Stern Show after it happened. “I just stopped my car in the middle of the road and ran to the car,” she told Howard Stern. “Like what's going on? Everyone's talking so fast and moving so fast, it's like [a] spontaneous reaction”.
The little one's mother also revealed that the late Brooklyn rapper has kept in touch over the years. “Keep checking [on us] “He didn't leave it like that,” he said. “And I told him, 'Whenever you need to talk, call me.' So he would call me and tell me things that were on his mind.”
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys premiered over the weekend (August 25) on A&E.
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