We loved us some Left Eye, here at I Love Old School Music. Although the beloved TLC member has been gone from this 18 years, her legacy and very strong personality will never be forgotten because of the many memories she left behind.  Left Eye was never one to hide who she was from the world. She shared it all- her highs and lows- including that  infamous mansion fire she set to her boyfriend/ex-NFL player, Andre Rison’s, residence on June 9, 1994.

Left Eye spoke several times about that incident in various interviews, but there was one piece of the puzzle that rapper, Salt (of Salt-N-Pepa) let the world know about years later.  In her autobiography, Let’s Talk About Pep, Pepa revealed that she, too,  had a lil’ sumthin’ sumthin’ to do with Left Eye starting that bathtub fire that turned Andre’s mansion into an inferno. Read the excerpts below and prepare to be amazed…

Pepa’s History With Andre Rison & Left Eye

Excerpt from Sandra “Pepa” Denton’s book, Let’s Talk About Pep, detailing her involvement in the Left Eye/Andre Rison mansion fire:

It just seemed that all of my problems revolved around men – even when it wasn’t my fault. Even when I wasn’t directly involved. One example of this was in 1994. I ended up in one of those National Enquirer type of magazines under a headline: “Is Pepa a Home Wrecker?” Remember the night Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes burned down the house of Andre Rison (former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver)? Well, I was sort of in the middle of that.

Andre and I never messed around. I’m innocent of that crime. I am so innocent. But I did know him and we were really cool. Salt-N-Pepa used to do a lot of NFL spots for Monday Night Football. And we would do some NFL parties. I met Andre at one of those parties and we hit it off. We went bowling and were bugging out and laughing. I would bump into him from time to time at different clubs. And that was it.

He told me later how everything went down. Apparently he had been talking about me to her. Telling her how cool I was. Brothers, you can’t do that. Your girl will immediately be suspicious. Now, maybe he did like me like that, but again, we never went there. One night, he and Lisa are watching TV and my video comes on, and he gets all excited and says something like “Pep, that my girl!”

The Heated Misunderstanding That Led To The Fire

Pepa then explained, in her autobiography, what transpired the night of the mansion fire:

Maybe she was feeling that he was trying to holler at me and she didn’t like it. That very night, we had a concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, and Andre and Lisa came to the show. I got them backstage tickets and the whole nine.

After the show, I was backstage and I left my dressing room for something. At the same time, Andre was nowhere to be found. Lisa came into my dressing room looking for him, and when she didn’t see me and couldn’t find him, she jumped to conclusions. She assumed that we were together. This is what he told me. She finally found him and they went home and argued that whole night. He told me he couldn’t take it anymore and left. When he did, that’s when the teddy bears and the sneakers went in the Jacuzzi with the lighter fluid and the whole house got burned to the ground.

That was a huge story. And the tabloids had started getting wind of what happened. Lisa talked about him cheating, but no one knew the whole story or the truth. Then I end up in this tabloid in a picture from the “Shoop” video with that headline: “Is Pepa A Home Wrecker?” TLC was a big group. And Salt-N-Pepa was huge, too. And you add in an NFL star and a burned-down mansion and you have the makings of a real scandal. It was about to be on. That story was going to catch fire like Andre’s house. I was saved, though. That same week O.J. Simpson decided to kill his wife and her friend in California. And nobody really cared about Andre Rison, Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes, and me. Thank you, O.J.! But that incident showed me how crazy we women can get over a man. I was Lisa. I have been on that side of it…

Lawd today! Like we always say: We learn something new ’round these parts everyday!

May Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes continue to rest peacefully. Her legacy was as beautiful, as it was colorful and we love that she lived life with no regrets. We truly appreciate Left Eye’s public displays of vulnerabilities and imperfections throughout the years, because they affirmed that celebs are real people, with real life ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

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We loved us some Left Eye, here at I Love Old School Music. Although the beloved TLC member has been gone from this 16 years, her legacy and very strong personality will never be forgotten because of the many memories she left behind.  Left Eye was never one to hide who she was from the world. She shared it all- her highs and lows- including that  infamous mansion fire she set to her boyfriend/ex-NFL player, Andre Rison’s, residence on June 9, 1994.

Left Eye spoke several times about that incident in various interviews, but there was one piece of the puzzle that rapper, Salt (of Salt-N-Pepa) let the world know about years later.  In her autobiography, Let’s Talk About Pep, Pepa revealed that she, too,  had a lil’ sumthin’ sumthin’ to do with Left Eye starting that bathtub fire that turned Andre’s mansion into an inferno. Read the excerpts below and prepare to be amazed…

Pepa’s History With Andre Rison & Left Eye

Excerpt from Sandra “Pepa” Denton’s book, Let’s Talk About Pep, detailing her involvement in the Left Eye/Andre Rison mansion fire:

It just seemed that all of my problems revolved around men – even when it wasn’t my fault. Even when I wasn’t directly involved. One example of this was in 1994. I ended up in one of those National Enquirer type of magazines under a headline: “Is Pepa a Home Wrecker?” Remember the night Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes burned down the house of Andre Rison (former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver)? Well, I was sort of in the middle of that.

Andre and I never messed around. I’m innocent of that crime. I am so innocent. But I did know him and we were really cool. Salt-N-Pepa used to do a lot of NFL spots for Monday Night Football. And we would do some NFL parties. I met Andre at one of those parties and we hit it off. We went bowling and were bugging out and laughing. I would bump into him from time to time at different clubs. And that was it.

He told me later how everything went down. Apparently he had been talking about me to her. Telling her how cool I was. Brothers, you can’t do that. Your girl will immediately be suspicious. Now, maybe he did like me like that, but again, we never went there. One night, he and Lisa are watching TV and my video comes on, and he gets all excited and says something like “Pep, that my girl!”

The Heated Misunderstanding That Led To The Fire

Pepa then explained, in her autobiography, what transpired the night of the mansion fire:

Maybe she was feeling that he was trying to holler at me and she didn’t like it. That very night, we had a concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, and Andre and Lisa came to the show. I got them backstage tickets and the whole nine.

After the show, I was backstage and I left my dressing room for something. At the same time, Andre was nowhere to be found. Lisa came into my dressing room looking for him, and when she didn’t see me and couldn’t find him, she jumped to conclusions. She assumed that we were together. This is what he told me. She finally found him and they went home and argued that whole night. He told me he couldn’t take it anymore and left. When he did, that’s when the teddy bears and the sneakers went in the Jacuzzi with the lighter fluid and the whole house got burned to the ground.

That was a huge story. And the tabloids had started getting wind of what happened. Lisa talked about him cheating, but no one knew the whole story or the truth. Then I end up in this tabloid in a picture from the “Shoop” video with that headline: “Is Pepa A Home Wrecker?” TLC was a big group. And Salt-N-Pepa was huge, too. And you add in an NFL star and a burned-down mansion and you have the makings of a real scandal. It was about to be on. That story was going to catch fire like Andre’s house. I was saved, though. That same week O.J. Simpson decided to kill his wife and her friend in California. And nobody really cared about Andre Rison, Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes, and me. Thank you, O.J.! But that incident showed me how crazy we women can get over a man. I was Lisa. I have been on that side of it…

Lawd today! Like we always say: We learn something new ’round these parts everyday!

May Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes continue to rest peacefully. Her legacy was as beautiful, as it was colorful and we love that she lived life with no regrets. We truly appreciate Left Eye’s public displays of vulnerabilities and imperfections throughout the years, because they affirmed that celebs are real people, with real life ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

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The ‘Message’ From Left Eye’s Spirit

T-Boz made a guest appearance on the show, “Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry,” where she had an emotional experience with Tyler Henry, the psychic/medium/clairvoiyant(or whatever the appropriate terminology is for his cosmic abilities). Although I think Tyler Henry’s ‘talents’ are a tad questionable, T-Boz’s love for Left Eye was absolutely genuine, beautiful, and heart wrenching.

During the session, T-Boz’s daughter and a few family members looked on as Tyler proceeded to ‘connect’ with her beloved TLC member, the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, to tell her that Left Eye wanted her to know that she’s glad none of the other eight people who were in the car with her were killed during her fatal 2002 car accident in Honduras at the age of 30.

The Red Flags About Psychic Medium’s ‘Connection’ With Left Eye

Red flag #1: That’s a beautiful message Tyler gave T-Boz. However, typically I’d try to stay neutral on the debate over the authenticity of psychic mediums, but with this cat, Tyler, there were a few red flags in the video clip you’re about to see below. The first red flag was that he started off the convo’ by pretending that he didn’t know who Left Eye was:

“You have like a weird death here coming through,” Henry tells T-Boz as he’s ‘connecting’ with Left Eye. “She’ll like, joke…this is weird, she’s doing this weird hand thing with me, she’s just being silly. She’s very, very direct. Someone might go by the nickname I’ve never heard before, a really unique one. I don’t know this one,” Tyler continued as he tried to ‘figure out’ Left Eye’s name.

Red flags #2 and #3 were that Tyler seemed unaware that Left Eye had been killed in a car accident in a foreign country…hmmm… Then he proceeded to try to ‘decode’ info he said he was getting from Left Eye about an ‘accident’:

“There is a reference to South America. She’s referencing to a car accident,” he stated. “She’s placing these two together, but she’s having me acknowledge that if this had happened in another country, this wouldn’t have happened. I wouldn’t think it would happen to me in the states. If someone is not familiar with the way that we drive in a different country and as a result we die, … had we been on the road and perfectly capable, we might have been able to manage in the United States, you know, somewhere where we might have had more control,” Tyler told T-Boz, referring to control Left Eye could have had of the vehicle on the smoother roads and lanes in the U.S..

Watch T-Boz ‘Connect’ With Left Eye

Not to rain on anyone’s parade who truly believes in psychic mediums. I don’t know if they are real or not, so I cannot make the judgement on that. However, what I can do is call ‘foul on the play’ when I see one. Tyler Henry may be a great clairvoiyant/psychic person. However, watching him tell T-Boz a bunch of info she- and the rest of America- already knows (or can simply find out on Google), then delivering it as ‘a conversation’ he’s having with Left Eye’s spirit, I call ‘foul’ in this case. Or maybe the more appropriate description is B.S….just sayin.’

On the flip side, T-Boz clearly misses and loves her friend, Left Eye, dearly. So the best part about the video clip was seeing her be able to laugh through her pain about the funny memories she shared with her girl. Rest on Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. Gone but never forgotten.

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Left Eye spoke several times about that incident in various interviews, but there was one piece of the puzzle that rapper, Salt (of Salt-N-Pepa) let the world know about years later.  In her autobiography, Let’s Talk About Pep, Pepa revealed that she, too,  had a lil’ sumthin’ sumthin’ to do with Left Eye starting that bathtub fire that turned Andre’s mansion into an inferno. Read the excerpts below and prepare to be amazed…

Pepa’s History With Andre Rison & Left Eye

Excerpt from Sandra “Pepa” Denton’s book, Let’s Talk About Pep, detailing her involvement in the Left Eye/Andre Rison mansion fire:

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It just seemed that all of my problems revolved around men – even when it wasn’t my fault. Even when I wasn’t directly involved. One example of this was in 1994. I ended up in one of those National Enquirer type of magazines under a headline: “Is Pepa a Home Wrecker?” Remember the night Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes burned down the house of Andre Rison (former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver)? Well, I was sort of in the middle of that.

Andre and I never messed around. I’m innocent of that crime. I am so innocent. But I did know him and we were really cool. Salt-N-Pepa used to do a lot of NFL spots for Monday Night Football. And we would do some NFL parties. I met Andre at one of those parties and we hit it off. We went bowling and were bugging out and laughing. I would bump into him from time to time at different clubs. And that was it.

He told me later how everything went down. Apparently he had been talking about me to her. Telling her how cool I was. Brothers, you can’t do that. Your girl will immediately be suspicious. Now, maybe he did like me like that, but again, we never went there. One night, he and Lisa are watching TV and my video comes on, and he gets all excited and says something like “Pep, that my girl!”

The Heated Misunderstanding That Led To The Fire

Pepa then explained, in her autobiography, what transpired the night of the mansion fire:

Maybe she was feeling that he was trying to holler at me and she didn’t like it. That very night, we had a concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, and Andre and Lisa came to the show. I got them backstage tickets and the whole nine.

After the show, I was backstage and I left my dressing room for something. At the same time, Andre was nowhere to be found. Lisa came into my dressing room looking for him, and when she didn’t see me and couldn’t find him, she jumped to conclusions. She assumed that we were together. This is what he told me. She finally found him and they went home and argued that whole night. He told me he couldn’t take it anymore and left. When he did, that’s when the teddy bears and the sneakers went in the Jacuzzi with the lighter fluid and the whole house got burned to the ground.

That was a huge story. And the tabloids had started getting wind of what happened. Lisa talked about him cheating, but no one knew the whole story or the truth. Then I end up in this tabloid in a picture from the “Shoop” video with that headline: “Is Pepa A Home Wrecker?” TLC was a big group. And Salt-N-Pepa was huge, too. And you add in an NFL star and a burned-down mansion and you have the makings of a real scandal. It was about to be on. That story was going to catch fire like Andre’s house. I was saved, though. That same week O.J. Simpson decided to kill his wife and her friend in California. And nobody really cared about Andre Rison, Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes, and me. Thank you, O.J.! But that incident showed me how crazy we women can get over a man. I was Lisa. I have been on that side of it…

Lawd today! Like we always say: We learn something new ’round these parts everyday!

May Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes continue to rest peacefully. Her legacy was as beautiful, as it was colorful and we love that she lived life with no regrets. We truly appreciate Left Eye’s public displays of vulnerabilities and imperfections throughout the years, because they affirmed that celebs are real people, with real life ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

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