Lisa Lopes, who was also known as Left Eye, was a singer and songwriter from the popular girl group TLC. She was in the band along with Tionne Watkins and Rozonda Thomas. The band won four Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Lopes also had a brief solo career, where she ended up with two top 10 Singles, “Not Tonight” and “U Know What’s Up.”
In 1993, Lopes started dating Andre Rison, a football player from the Atlanta Falcons. According to Paper Mag, their relationship was fraught from the start. “Six months in, they had a grocery store parking lot argument,” the outlet reported. “Rison allegedly assaulted Lopes and then fired off a gun to warn strangers not to get involved. He was arrested, but charges were dropped.”
However, that wasn’t their only argument. In 1994, she got into a fight with him where he "tried to calm her down, which to him meant slapping her, pinning her on the bed, and sitting on her." In retaliation, after he left to stay the night at a teammate's house, she threw something into the bathtub. (Some say it was a piece of cardboard, while others say it was a pair of his new shoes). Then she lit the item on fire. That fire quickly spread, and his million-dollar mansion went up in flames, turning it to ash.
Lopes was arrested for first-degree arson and sentenced to years of probation and court-mandated therapy. However, she continued dating Rison on-and-off for years after the incident, until her death at age 30.
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When asked about her dating life in a 1998 interview with Mad Rhythms Magazine, she said, “I do the pursuing. I give them that look and then we hook up. I get distracted very easily. It's not just a lover thing, but what kind of person is inside that body. I'll talk to people just because I was interested in them as the person. I'm so open and down to earth, like I'm their next door neighbor. They'll be like, ‘Left Eye did not just walk up to me and show some interest.’ After we talk for a while, he forgets that I'm Left Eye,I'm just Lisa. I maintain good relationships with my old boyfriends. If there's a friendship there, I like to keep it.”
Lopes died in a car crash in Honduras in 2002. She had been shooting a documentary and lost control of her rental car while driving. There were several other passengers in the car who made it out alive, but she was the only one not wearing a seatbelt and died from her injuries.
The Last Days of Left Eye, a documentary about the singer’s last days, is available to watch on YouTube.
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