Wayne Brady opens up about the scary moment he feared for his daughter’s life at his Malibu home

Wayne Brady got candid about a scary time when he feared for his daughter’s safety just a few years ago.

The 48-year-old Let’s Make a Deal host appeared on Access Hollywood in a video conferencing interview from his home, when Scott Evans was mentioning that he ‘couldn’t imagine’ having to discuss racism today with kids.

Evans mentioned that Brady has an ‘almost-adult child,’ referring to his 17-year-old daughter Maile, when Brady said, ‘that’s even a better reason to have the talk with her,’ before he said he hasn’t told this story before ‘because there wasn’t an opportunity.’  

‘A couple years ago, she must have been 14 or 15, and we live in Malibu, her mom lives in Malibu and I wasn’t home,’ he began.

‘She set the alarm off in my house. I freaked out because I was giving her the code, and for whatever reason, she put it in wrong and it wouldn’t accept,’ he added.

Brady said that the alarm company told him they were ‘sending armed response,’ which terrified the actor and comedian.

‘I was so worried that my daughter could not explain in the heat of the moment, “Yes, it’s my house.” Was she going to let these armed officers in?’ Brady said.

He told her to, ‘Get out of the house right now and run down the street, run down about a half a mile to your mama’s house,’ and while she questioned it, he got so worked up that she did as he told. 

Brady added that he got so worked up because he went through a similar situation himself, when he was living in Sherman Oaks. 

‘I had an incident a couple years ago when I lived in Sherman Oaks where I locked myself out, and I tripped my own alarm, and I couldn’t turn off the alarm,’ he added.

‘And an armed response team came and I had to prove it was my house – and true, that should be the same for anyone when you’re outside of someone’s house,’ he clarified.

‘But the fear that these people would hurt me outside of my own house because it’s not unprecedented,’ Brady added.

‘I knew that I could handle it because I was a man, but I was fearful for my little girl, and I placed all that fear on her,’ Brady added.

He said that his ex and Maile’s mother, Mandie Taketa got mad at him for that, because Maile was then worried that cops were going to kill her.

‘We had to have a talk, I sat her down and this is the talk we had to have,’ adding that he’s glad he had it.

‘Fast forward to now that she’s 17, she’s the head of her school’s black student union, she’s a little activist and she knows her history and she can put people in her place, it’s a conversation that I’m glad I had,’ he added.

Brady added that he ‘worries about her boyfriend when he drives’ and her 21-year-old nephew, and that, ‘we need to arm each other with knowledge because it’s just necessary.’