Editing Lisa Lopes (section)

== Personal life ==
Lopes was often vocal about her personal life and difficult past. She came from an abusive, alcoholic background and struggled with alcoholism herself.<ref name="VibeNov19b94" /> These issues became headline news in 1994, when she was arrested for setting fire to [[Andre Rison]]'s sneakers in a bathtub; the fire ultimately spread to the mansion they shared and destroyed it. She claimed that Rison had beaten her after a night out, and she set fire to his shoes to get back at him, but burning down the house was an accident. Lopes later revealed that she did not have a lot of freedom within the relationship and that Rison abused her emotionally and physically; she said that she released her frustrations about the relationship on the night of the fire.<ref name="mtv.com">{{cite news| last=Reid| first=Shaheem| title=Lisa Lopes Documentary Captures Singer's Last Days|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558031/lisa-lopes-film-captures-her-last-days.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602065414/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558031/lisa-lopes-film-captures-her-last-days.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 2, 2011|access-date=February 8, 2014|newspaper=MTV|date=April 25, 2007}}</ref>

Lopes was sentenced to five years' probation and therapy at a [[halfway house]], and was unable to shake the incident from her reputation.<ref name="SadRap"/> Lopes revealed in ''[[The Last Days of Left Eye]]'' that her meeting with a struggling mother in rehab left a big impression on her.<ref name="LastDays">{{cite AV media|people=Lazin, Lauren (Director)|date=May 19, 2007|title=[[The Last Days of Left Eye]]| medium= Documentary film |location= United States|publisher=[[VH1]]}}</ref> She subsequently adopted the woman's 8-year-old daughter. She had adopted a 12-year-old boy ten years prior.<ref>[http://www.tourdates.co.uk/news/586-TLC-time-for-Lisa-Lopes TLC time for Lisa Lopes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729130716/http://www.tourdates.co.uk/news/586-tlc-time-for-lisa-lopes |date=July 29, 2012 }} Tour Dates. Retrieved April 29, 2009.</ref>

Lopes had several tattoos. Most prominent was a large eagle on her left arm, which she said represented freedom. Later, she added the number "80" around the eagle, which was Rison's [[National Football League|NFL]] number while in Atlanta.<ref name="Interview with The Independent">{{cite news|last1=Hodge|first1=Gavanndra|title=Q: The Interview – Lisa Lopes|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20011028/ai_n14430857|access-date=December 27, 2017|work=The Independent|date=October 28, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227141608/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20011028/ai_n14430857|archive-date=December 27, 2008}}</ref> She also had a tattoo of a moon with a face on her foot in reference to Rison's nickname, "Bad Moon". On her upper right arm was a large tattoo of the name "Parron" for her late stepbrother who died in a boating accident, arching over a large tattoo of a pierced heart. Her smallest tattoo was on her left earlobe and consisted of an arrow pointing to her left over the symbol of an eye, a reference to her nickname.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo/celeb-lopes.htm|title=entry|publisher=Vanishingtattoo.com|date=July 4, 2007|access-date=November 12, 2010|archive-date=June 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611142202/http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo/celeb-lopes.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lopes struggled with self-harm and even carved the words "hate" and "love" into her arm with a razor.<ref>{{cite news |title=Documentary Recounts the Last Days of Left Eye |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10267773 |newspaper=NPR.org |access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref>

In September 2000, Lopes was reported missing after failing to attend a family gathering and a major press conference in [[Las Vegas]].<ref>{{cite web |title=TLC pop star missing in the US|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/916726.stm|website=BBC News|access-date=17 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=TLC rapper goes missing|url=http://www.nme.com/news/music/tlc-27-1389045|website=NME|date=September 8, 2000|access-date=17 June 2020}}</ref>

Roughly two weeks before her own death, Lopes was a passenger in a traffic accident that resulted in the death of a 10-year-old Honduran boy.<ref name="SadRap"/> As reported in ''[[Philadelphia Weekly]]'', "It is commonplace for people to walk the roads that wind through Honduras, and it's often difficult to see pedestrians." The boy, Bayron Isaul Fuentes Lopez, was following behind his brothers and sisters when he stepped off the median strip and was struck by a van driven by Stephanie, Lopes' personal assistant. Lopes' party stopped and loaded the boy into the car, and Lopes "cradled the dying boy's bleeding head in her arms" while "someone gave him [[mouth-to-mouth resuscitation]] as they rushed him to a nearby hospital."<ref name="Over the Waterfall">{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Solomon|title=Over the Waterfall|url=http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news/over-the-waterfall/article_83d45b46-0857-5101-96a1-8e2de2687d2b.html|access-date=January 12, 2017|newspaper=[[Philadelphia Weekly]]|date=August 14, 2002}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He died the next day. Lopes paid approximately $3,700 for his medical expenses and funeral,<ref name="SadRap"/> and she gave the family around $925 for any extra costs, although it was apparently agreed upon by the authorities and the boy's family that his death was an "unforeseeable tragedy" and no blame was placed on the driver of the van or Lopes.<ref name="Over the Waterfall"/> In the documentary ''The Last Days of Left Eye'', Lopes is shown choosing a casket for the child from a local funeral home. Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a "spirit" following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared a similar last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.<ref name="LastDays"/>