'A messed-up situation' - world champion Dubois on family rift
A row with her father, Stan Dubois (who also goes by the name Dave) under whose strict, high-pressure boxing regime both siblings grew up , was the catalyst. Caroline walked away but continued training under Shane McGuigan, while Daniel went his own way. Some of her younger siblings went with her, carving out a new family dynamic in the process.
"It's such a messed-up situation. It's just so complex," Caroline, 25, says of the estranged relationship. Speaking to BBC Sport from the McGuigan gym in Leyton, east London, Caroline - with her younger sister Alicia sitting beside her - says she hopes to reconcile with Daniel and suspects "time" will be the healer.
"When you separate yourself from a person who can be overbearing, where you're not allowed to have an opinion and not allowed to have a voice, and then you have that freedom, you find what you like and what you dislike," she says. "You find what you want to be around, what type of people you want to be with, and what type of people you don't want to be around. " Follow live text and radio commentary from 19:00 BST on Sunday, 5 April on BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 5 Live plus BBC Sport's website and app.
Caroline Dubois is the reigning WBC lightweight champion, while her estranged brother Daniel is a former IBF heavyweight champion To understand why Dubois felt she needed to find her voice, you must look at how she started. Long before she was a world champion, she was a nine-year-old girl pretending to be a boy named Colin . In a world that did not always see a future for female boxers, she tucked her hair into a headguard and lived a lie for months.
"I think it was obviously a reflection of the time, but the thing I find most sad is that they actually thought I was a boy. I mean, that's devastating," she quips. "But at the time, I was full Mulan...