The final days of Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes

**buttmunch** · May 15th, 2007, 04:28 AM

R&B star Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes embarked on a "spiritual journey" to Honduras to make a documentary about her troubled life. But she ended up filming her own death.

Footage of Lopes suddenly swerving her car off a jungle road is the chilling final scene in "Last Days of Left Eye," a two-hour documentary that premieres Saturday at 9 p.m. on VH1.

At her family's request, viewers won't see the entire scene of the April 2002 accident, in which Lopes, the lone casualty in a car full of people, died from severe head injuries.

"There's really not much more, other than the sounds of the other passengers screaming," said "Last Days" director Lauren Lazin. "Ultimately the decision [not to show more] was left to her family, and they were satisfied."

Harrowing footage of her final moments aside, the film remains a fascinating chronicle of Lopes' tumultuous life and career. The former member of R&B trio TLC was the prototypical tortured artist whose personal demons included alcoholism, legal problems, financial woes and abusive relationships.

But "Last Days" is also a brutally honest look into the 30-year-old singer's mind-set at the time of her death. Much of the footage has Lopes speaking into the camera and sharing her thoughts on her domineering father - whom she blames for her drinking problem - and boyfriend Andre Rison, the NFL player whose Atlanta mansion Lopes famously burned down in 1994 after the couple fought.

There is also a segment that eerily foreshadows Lopes' accident - a few days earlier, a car in which she was riding struck and killed a 7-year-old Honduran boy. The fatal accident was not filmed, but a concerned Lopes is later seen visiting the hospital and trying to console the boy's mother.

"The film is very intimate and personal," said Lazin. "You see a lot of the beautiful things about her, especially this incredible honesty she had in the way she bared herself and exposed so much. Not a lot of people would be willing to go as deep and be as honest."

"She really just wanted to share so much of herself."

NY Daily News

I still think she was one of the ultimate pissed off girlfriends of all time...burning down the boyfriends house! That is truly pissed off.

**doriangray** · May 15th, 2007, 04:39 AM

she was just lighting his shoes on fire but it got out of control.

**buttmunch** · May 15th, 2007, 04:44 AM

^^Well, duh! Everybody knows that!

**MissKat** · May 15th, 2007, 05:20 AM

I dont really want to watch a programme where you know someone is going to die...I will be giving this a miss i think

**CRAZY 'N' NUTS** · May 15th, 2007, 05:50 AM

yeah, this sounds kinda silly.

I cant believe how long it has been since she died.. her death was over shadowed by Aayliah's death because it happened right after.

**Mel1973** · May 15th, 2007, 06:56 AM

I loved Left Eye and she was a far greater talent than Aayliah....

**CRAZY 'N' NUTS** · May 15th, 2007, 07:01 AM

^^ I liked them both. Its sad they both didnt even make it to 30? how old was left eye when she died?

It seems like yesterday, when this news broke out. I cant believe how fast life is going (im scared)

**Mel1973** · May 15th, 2007, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by CRAZY 'N' NUTS

^^ I liked them both. Its sad they both didnt even make it to 30? how old was left eye when she died?

It seems like yesterday, when this news broke out. I cant believe how fast life is going (im scared)

But "Last Days" is also a brutally honest look into the 30-year-old singer's mind-set at the time of her death.

**sharon_b** · May 15th, 2007, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by CRAZY 'N' NUTS

yeah, this sounds kinda silly.

I cant believe how long it has been since she died.. her death was over shadowed by Aayliah's death because it happened right after.

Aayliah died a year before Left Eye. Left Eye died in April 2002 whereas Aalyiah died in August 2001. Im curious to see this but dont know if it will be shown in the U.K.

**NexUK** · May 15th, 2007, 09:22 AM

Left Eye was one of a kind. Loved Aayliah too though.

**Karistiona** · May 15th, 2007, 12:41 PM

Oh dear I don't know if I can watch something like this, I think I'd just cry the whole way through. Such a tragedy that she died so young due to something that would appear to have been avoidable. So damn sad. Aaliyah too, it was tragic about both of them, they were both extremely talented.

**AliceInWonderland** · May 15th, 2007, 01:01 PM

i wanna see this film.

**kingcap72** · May 15th, 2007, 01:13 PM

It seems like yesterday that Left Eye died. Don't know if I'll watch the film, but she was definitely a talent that will be missed, along with Aayliah. Both died too young.