"It was my name": When Dale Earnhardt's son revealed Teresa Earnhardt suing him in court over using his own surname

In a recently uploaded interview on Dirty Mo Media, Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s son, Kerry Earnhardt opened up on the time his step-mother Teresa Earnhardt took him to the court. While in conversation with Dale Jr., Kerry spoke about the time he launched his own venture.

But upon getting it trademarked, they received a legal notice from Teresa, the widow of Dale Earnhardt Sr. Kerry revealed that after he left DEI, he began talking to Schumacher Homes about potentially opening 'Earnhardt Collection.' He said that their plans included expanding to more than just homes and into areas like furniture down the road.

"We got to trademark it and we get a letter in the mail from a lawyer. And it's Teresa Earnhardt's lawyer, saying if we go on continuing to use this name, there'll be a lawsuit. So my wife being the stong willed person that she is, went, 'Fine, you want a lawsuit? Let's go.' So we continued on and done our business with Schumacher Homes and we called them and told them what all was happening just so they know.

"Long story short, eight years later in this lawsuit, we won the lawsuit and she appealed it so it had to go to Washington or wherever we went, and the board that decided we win, they questioned why they come up with that and they basically told them it was my name," Kerry Earnhardt described.

Kerry added that Teresa Earnhardt got confused between Dale Earnhardt and Earnhardt Collection.

But later Kerry learned through 'some of her key people', that it wasn't a confusion after all, because of which she sued him for using his own surname.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked back on his time at Dale Earnhardt Incorporated in 2016

During a 2016 interview, Dale Earnhardt Jr. opened up on leaving DEI and what his experience was in the last years of his being the #8 driver. Earnhardt was at his father's team until 2007 when he announced he'd be switching to Hendrick Motorsports in 2008, the team where he drove until the end of his career in 2017.

Speaking about his time at DEI, post the tragic death of Dale Earnhardt Sr., Junior revealed that it wasn't always 'warm and fuzzy'. But despite that, he found it okay. He claimed that Teresa Earnhardt was 'always fair' and never made 'an unfair proposition.'

Earnhardt Jr. said that he never felt he didn't have good equipment or resources. The only thing was that as per Junior, there wasn't 'much of a relationship' between him and his stepmother.

Having said that, he claimed that if the opportunities had remained the same, he would've stayed at DEI. But at the same time, Dale Jr. wasn't sure how things being different would've altered his decision-making at that time.