TLC Reality Show to Find Replacement for "Left Eye" on UPN

[fuji]

This is truly a sad day. I woke up this morning to this terrible news. This truly makes you look at your life differently. I too thought about her record deal with Suge and how everyone that was working with Suge are dying. T-Boz and Chilli are on MTV now and they are crying. They can barely talk. This is so sad.

[thesweetestone]

Man, this is so sad. I could not believe it. This is such a shock!

[skeeliteful]

Originally posted by skywalker20_99
Just thinking about how we are losing the artists whose music I grew up to. First Aaliyah, now Left Eye. Very sad.

This is sooooooooo true. I was a BIG TLC fan when I was in high school. Left eye was so talented. There was an article about her in Vibe magazine a few months ago and it seemed like she was really getting her spirit together and making peace with alot that was going on with her life. It seems our Heavenly Father needed another angel

I really have to say this...It really upsets me and hurts me when I hear about talented young people with their lives ahead of them and so full of potential get called home. It just makes me wonder every know and then will I be ready when God calls me home? Sorry, ya'll...but I'm having a moment

[DELTAQTE]

I was on the air when Aaliyah died and I was on the air live when we got the word that Left eye died. It was all the callers in to the station talked about all night. This is so sad.

No disrespect but is anybody a little "weary" of this whole accident? I mean dang 7 people and she was the only one killed? And wasn't she involved with that religion(I forgot what it was, she talked about it in Honey though) that some people believed was a cult?

I'll feel more comfortable when they bring the body back to America and we get more information.

CNN said today is T-Boz birthday. What a day to find out that your friend is dead!

I send out prayers to her family.


QTE

[thesweetestone]

I don't know if this means anything. If my memory serves me right last year the Mitsubishi Montero did get a horrible safety rating. Because of tests proved they flip over easily. does anyone else remember this?

[thesweetestone]

I knew I had heard this somewhere! Consumer reports gave that suv a "Not Accetable" rating.

http://money.cnn.com/2001/06/20//home_auto/autos_cu

[dzsaigirl]

Maybe she wasn't wearing a seatbelt and the others were? That would be an explanation. Is she the one with Sickle Cell Anemia???

[techie_girl_44]

dzsaigirl -

T-Boz is the one with Sickle Cell Anemia.

[TLAW]

Easy at it is to suspect Suge, it seems it was truly an accident. That she was the only one who died is doubly tragic. Hopefully she'll be remembered for the more positive stuff she accomplished.
RIP

[txdiva]

When I read this on CNN.com, I was stunned. My co-workers couldn't figure out why I was in shock. I have listened to TLC ever since the first album back in '92. When you follow someone for years and then something like this happens, it feels like you've lost a friend. I felt the same way when Aaliyah passed 8 months ago.


My condolences go out to the Lopes family and the remaining members of TLC.

Lisa, you will be missed.

[ClassyLady]

Originally posted by dzsaigirl
Maybe she wasn't wearing a seatbelt and the others were? That would be an explanation.

From what I heard, Left Eye was the driver. She wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was speeding. She died instantly when the truck she was driving flipped over and she sustained a trauma to the head. If everyone else had seatbelts on, then it would not be unreasonable for her to be the only fatality.

This is such a shame. I really hope that this was just an accident and that there was no foul play involved.

[NinjaPoodle]

Although I was not a huge fan of their music, I was really touched by their single "Unpretty". It left a lasting impression with me to this day.
My condolences to her family and friends.

[AKA2D '91]

T-Boz and Chilli spoke via phone on MTV and 106 and Park. Sometimes people ask the most inappropriate questions. Free and AJ were asking something about the incident. (I saw both interviews)and they just broke down on BET. I was like dannnnng. First, how could they do these interviews? Second, how could people ask certain questions?

During one of the interviews, T-Boz said that the last time she had seen/or heard from Left Eye was like 3 weeks ago when she was in the hospital. Left Eye sent her all these plants etc. You never know what will happen. T-Boz is the one how from time to time is affected from her Sickle Cell, but Left Eye was the one that went before. One never will know who's time will come first, well or not.

The little girl she had adopted was the daughter of a young lady that she met in the "half way" house she was ordered to attend during the fire incident.

That SUV was demolished.

Left-Eye said she did not believe in death, but in a transformation, so I guess she's transforming...

[tickledpink]

I saw pics of that SUV on Lycos. It was demolished.

[Afrochic]

Singer was in van that struck and killed Honduran boy earlier this month, one of her lawyers confirms

By MIKE WILLIAMS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer

La Ceiba, Honduras -- Nearly three weeks before dying in a car accident near here, Atlanta singer Lisa Lopes was in a van that struck and killed a 10-year-old Honduran boy in an accident that was not reported to legal authorities.

The van was being driven by Lopes personal assistant, said Greg Adams, public affairs officer for the U.S. embassy. Stephanie Patterson of Atlanta was Lopes' personal assistant until Lopes' death Thursday.

The Mitsubishi Patterson was driving was in the center lane, and the boy -- Bayron Isaul Fuentes Lopez -- stepped off the median. "He was trailing after his sisters and brothers and stepped off the curb at the last minute," Adams said.

Early Sunday evening, a manager for Lopes' pop group, TLC, said he was aware of reports about the April 6 accident in Honduras. "But the reality is, no one I'm dealing with wants to comment at this time," said Rob Goldstone.

He also added that he was not certain if Patterson had returned to Atlanta. She could not be reached for comment.

Patrick James Bennett, a lawyer in Honduras who has represented Lopes in other matters but not this one, nonetheless confirmed some of the details of the accident.

He said it never was reported to police or the judiciary, and no autopsy was performed, as required under Honduran law in deaths not by natural causes. He also said that Lopes paid about $3,700 for the boy's medical care and funeral, and also gave the family about $925.

The boy "was on the main street with a group of people who crossed over," Bennett said. "The kid jumped in front. That's the reason the family pressed no charges. (Lopes and Patterson) did everything that was possible to be done. They paid the expenses and the funeral, and the family was contented. They didn't call the police."

The family had taken down Lopes' name at the time of the accident and noted the tattoos on her arms, according to a report in the San Pedro Sula daily newspaper, La Prensa. After her death last Thursday, a photo of Lopes in which her tattoos were visible ran in the Honduran press, and the family realized she was involved in the boy's death.

The accident happened between 8:45 and 9 p.m. on a highway near the Reyes Caballero neighborhood in the La Lima sector, about a half hour drive from central San Pedro Sula.

At the time the boy was hit, Lopes, Patterson and a man whom Bennett knew only as "James" were driving in the van to pick up Kurtis Toliver , who runs Lopes' Atlanta recording studios and was arriving at the San Pedro Sula airport, Bennett said.

The boy was walking with his uncle, Miguel Angel Rivera, to visit other family when he was struck, La Prensa reported.

The boy's family "entered into talks with some lawyers from San Pedro Sula contracted by the singer so that they would take care of the case and it would go no further," the newspaper said.

Attempts to reach those attorneys were not immediately successful. The boy's family "did not file charges against Stephanie and Lisa Lopes because they acted so well, in such a good fashion," the article, which was written in Spanish, stated. "They were with the child until his last moments."

Bennett said no autopsy was performed because "it depends on who you are in Honduras. There are a lot of bodies in the morgue. If Lisa Lopes was Honduran, they would not be doing that (performing an autopsy). It's because she's famous and not a Honduran."

Also Sunday, Lopes' body "was released to funeral home in the afternoon for preparation. The autopsy was completed over the weekend," said the U.S. Embassy's Adams.

He said one member of the group accopanying the rapper on vacation was still in the hospital with a broken leg. The rest all have been released.

Lopes' body was to be released to family Monday.

Employee Rosa de Diaz confirmed that Funeraria San Jose is handling the arrangments and that the autopsy had been completed.

A private wake for Lisa Lopes is set for Wednesday evening and the funeral service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, according to TLC's manager, Bill Diggins. The location for the funeral was still pending as of Sunday evening.