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

Maxine Lovell and her daughter Maati recalled the moment the rapper rescued Maati after she was hit by a car in 'Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys'

A New York woman is looking back at the moment Ol' Dirty Bastard rescued her daughter after she was struck by — and stuck underneath — a car over 26 years ago.

In an exclusive clip from Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys, the official documentary about the life of the late, legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper which premiered on Aug. 25 on A&E, Maxine Lovell and her daughter Maati reflect on the startling moment that Maati was struck by a vehicle in Brooklyn back in 1998 when she was just 4 years old.

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."

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Of course, ODB couldn't lift the car all by himself; he had help from other passers-by before pulling the girl from under the car to safety. A New York Daily News article after the accident noted that ODB was one of a dozen people who rushed to help Maati, and that the incident took place outside of Papa Wu's Brooklyn Sounds recording studios on Fulton Street.

"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.

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Maati's rescue story is just one of many moments that make up A Tale of Two Dirtys, which covers the rise of Wu-Tang, ODB's solo success, his iconic "Fantasy" team-up with Mariah 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 members Raekwon and Ghostface Killah.

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

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