Everyone is familiar with the expression, but Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes brought new meaning to the concept of a woman scorned. After discovering that boyfriend and Atlanta Falcons star Andre Rison was cheating on her, the TLC frontwoman tried to burn up his sneakers on June 9, 1994. Instead, she burned down his $1.3 million dollar house.
“There was drinking involved …” she later explained. “He stormed off and I decided to barbecue his tennis shoes. I threw them in the bathtub because I thought the fire would contain itself that way …”
The 24-year-old singer was sentenced to five years probation, fined $10,000, and entered an alcohol rehab program five months before TLC released CrazySexyCool, which became the best-selling album by a girl group in America. The home torching hadn’t been the tempestuous twosome’s first domestic dispute (he was allegedly abusive), but they remarkably stayed together for several years, with Andre announcing their engagement in 2001 before later calling it off.
Any chance for reconciliation was destroyed in 2002, when the 30-year-old was killed in a car accident in Honduras.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
GO GIRL I DONT BLAME YA
September 25th, 2008 at 7:40 am
love you left eye,you are always in my memory
December 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
u go girl i would of done the same thing well not exactly but u know what i mean
January 19th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
yello
February 11th, 2009 at 10:26 am
i so do luv dis pic of *~*LEFT=EYE*~*
r.i.p lisa “lefteye” lopes
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:40 am
I LOVE U LEFT EYE I MISS U SOOOOOO MUCH !?????