Maxxine Dupri: Candice LeRae Mentioning My Late Brother On WWE Raw Was My Idea

During a tag team bout on the March 11, 2024 episode of WWE Raw, Candice LeRae stopped Maxxine Dupri mid-move and chastised her. LeRae brought up Maxxine’s late brother Wyatt, who died in a car crash in 2017.

Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Dupri revealed it was her idea.

“Yes, 100%. It was that line I said, as I was the originator of the idea. So I said, we had the layout of the match where she’s going to yell at me and I’m going to walk out of the ring. And I just felt like if you want me to walk out of the ring, give me a reason to walk out of the ring. To me, I didn’t look at it as a negative towards my brother or towards my situation. To me, it felt like a positive, I get to bring light to the fact that I have a brother. To me, it was we’re gonna acknowledge someone that’s my whole world that passed away, whether she’s saying it in a negative way or positive way. To me, it was a positive. And I love Candice, she’s an angel, such a wonderful human, a wonderful mom. I don’t have anything bad to say about her,” said Dupri.

Asked about her mom’s reaction, Dupri replied, “My mom was definitely emotional about it. But again, she wasn’t emotional that Candice said something. She just didn’t know that that was going to come up. But if I would have told her, she would feel the same way that I feel. But Mondays are crazy, you know, the day gets going, you’re busy. I forgot to give her a warning.”

Elsewhere during the interview, Maxxine commented on her match with Becky Lynch. You can find her comments here.