New York Post

LEFT EYE LIT THINGS UP

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TLC’s April 1999 “Behind the Music” profile — which details the monetary hardships and personal trials that the platinum-selling girl group endured — crescendos with Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’ June 1994 arson arrest.

The singer torched the mansion of her then-boyfriend, NFL player Andre Rison, now 54, following an argument.

“I’d been drinking,” Lopes says. “And I just threw a pair of sneakers in the tub and . . . lit them on fire.” She was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. But the ordeal inspired her iconic verse in the hit single “Waterfalls.” Lopes died in a car crash in 2002.

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