How Ol' Dirty Bastard Lifted Car and Saved 4-Year-Old's Life: 'You Definitely Helped My Child' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Looking back at the incident, which left Maati trapped underneath a 1996 Mustang, the pair share that the “car came from out of nowhere” when Maati was with her older sister.

Also coming from out of nowhere, Maati’s mother recalls, was ODB.

“Maati was nowhere. 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,” Lovell says in the documentary. “But when she saw me, then she screamed.”

“I remember bits and pieces of the accident,” Maati recalls. “I remember the heat.”

Ol' Dirty Bastard poses for a portrait in April 1997 in New York City.Bob Berg/Getty

Bob Berg/Getty

“Some brothers came from out of nowhere,” Lovell said at the time. “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.”

The collision left Maati with a “burned-through” coat and burns on her leg, and she was transported to a local hospital, her mother recalls in the doc.

“He kept checking [on us] — he didn’t just leave it like that,” Lovell says of ODB. “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. And he was glad that he was there [when Maati needed help]. I think he was trying to prove that he was a good guy, and I said, ‘I agree with that. You definitely helped my child.'”

“It shows what type of person he is,” Maati adds.

Ol’ Dirty Bastard in New York City in April 1995.Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

Maati’s rescue story is just one of many moments that make upA Tale of Two Dirtys, which covers the rise of Wu-Tang, ODB’s solo success, his iconic “Fantasy” team-up withMariah Carey, his time in prison and his untimely overdose death on Nov. 13, 2004, two days before his 36th birthday.

Also featured in the documentary are Carey, members of ODB’s immediate family and Wu-Tang membersRaekwonand Ghostface Killah.

Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtyspremieres Sunday, Aug. 25, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on A&E.

source: people.com