Ol’ Dirty Bastard Helped Save 4-Year-Old Girl After She Was Hit by Car

Maxine Lovell and her daughter Maati had an unexpected run-in with the Wu-Tang Clan‘s wild card Ol’ Dirty Bastard back in 1998. They tell the story in the 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 be stuck under a ’96 Ford Mustang. “Maati was nowhere,” said Maxine in the exclusive clip given to People. “I couldn’t find her. And I kept saying, ‘Where’s my daughter? Where’s my daughter? Where’s my daughter?’ And everybody said, ‘Under the car.’ When I bent down all I saw was her. And she wasn’t crying; she wasn’t screaming, but when she saw me, then she screamed.”

Adding, “Some brothers came from out of nowhere. They lifted the car. Someone slid [Maati] from underneath. She didn’t cry and she didn’t scream. She didn’t know what had happened to her. But when she saw my face, she started wailing.”

One of the people that helped lift the car was none other than ODB after he noticed the commotion in front of Papa Wu’s Brooklyn Sounds recording studios on Fulton Street. There’s a news article about the accident in the Daily News and he talked about helping Maati on The Howard Stern Show after it happened. “I just stopped my car in the middle of the street and I ran towards the car,” he told Howard Stern. “Like what’s goin’ on? Everybody’s talkin’ so fast and movin’ so fast, it’s like [a] spontaneous reaction.”

The little girl’s mother also revealed the late Brooklyn rapper kept in touch over the years. “He kept checking [on us] — he didn’t just leave it like that,” she said. “And I told him, ‘Anytime you need to talk, call me.’ So he would call me and tell me things that were in his head.”

Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys premiered over the weekend (Aug. 25) on A&E.

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