by Paula Neal Mooney,
TV & Film Critic, Blogger

Hauntingly sad.

Poignantly funny.

Eerily supernatural.

That’s how I would describe Last Days of Left Eye, a video diary of Lisa Lopes — cute and controversial member of the ’90s supergroup TLC.

When Lisa died suddenly April 25, 2002, in a car accident in Honduras, her fans were stunned that the lovable 30-year-old was gone.

Lisa Lopes’ Last Days Videos

Lisa — an avid giver at odds with certain aspects of fame — went down to Honduras with members of her crew for what should have been 30 days of spiritual cleansing, and she created an in-depth video documentary of each day of her journey.

I’m so glad VH1 and Lisa’s handlers waited five years to edit and release Left Eye’s powerful videos of her speaking about some of the most personal circumstances of her life — including her father’s death, the intense fights Lisa endured at the hands of ex-NFL star Andre Rison, and amazingly the actual car crash that killed her.

Releasing this footage any earlier would have smacked of an Anna Nicole-ish type of exploitation.

Was Lisa Lopes a Christian?

In watching the video footage of Lisa — who displayed her amazing artistic skills such as drawing with charcoal and painting meaningful portraits of herself sitting atop the world with big boobs and an embryo representing her hoped-for future child — it becomes clear that Lisa may have believed in numerology and Dr. Sebi more than Christ.

She was keenly aware of an “evil spirit” following her those last days, one in which the documentary shows claimed the life of a little boy that darted in front of Lisa and her entourages’ car a matter of days before Lisa died

Lisa believed the evil spirit was really after her, but instead caused the death of the little boy, whose funeral and expenses Left Eye graciously offered to pay for — and did — as his mother wept with grief in the hospital room. The boy’s name was Lopez or Lopes as well.

Watch Last Days of Left Eye videos…

Thankfully, VH1 has released some clips of the Last Days of Left Eye documentary:

Perhaps the most haunting and unforgettable footage, however, is the video of Lisa Lopes’ actual car crash.

The video of Lisa’s last moments in the car is being analyzed all over the net — at times incorrectly, because Lisa Lopes was in fact the only one in the car wearing her seat belt, and ironically, the only one who died on that 27th day, the day of highest change per her numerology beliefs.

So gorgeous and gifted was the Supernova, in fact gone too soon.

“I do not believe in death,” Lisa said. “I believe in transformation.”

God bless her soul.