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Left Eye Lopez death captured on film |
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Written by Robert Dominguez, MCT
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
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 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 8 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."
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