Lamar Odom Opens Up About Khloé Kardashian

Back in 2009, Khloé Kardashian married NBA star Lamar Odom after lower than a month of relationship.

The two documented their relationship on Khloé’s household actuality present, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, earlier than launching a derivative known as Khloé & Lamar in 2011.

However, all through their marriage there have been in depth rumors about Lamar being untrue, in addition to hypothesis about his heavy use of medicine and alcohol.

Khloé ended up submitting for divorce in 2013, after Lamar launched a video of himself bragging about dishonest on her whereas excessive on medication.

Lamar infamously postpone signing the divorce papers as he clung onto hope that he and Khloé would ultimately reunite.

They have been even noticed having a tense confrontation outdoors of a SoulCycle in 2015, which Lamar later claimed Khloé’s mother, Kris Jenner, orchestrated.

It was this assembly that lastly satisfied him to signal the papers, however their divorce proceedings have been paused after he nearly died from a drug overdose in October of that very same 12 months.

During this time, Khloé supported Lamar and was his rock all through his restoration. And regardless of Lamar’s continued hope that they may rekindle their relationship, the divorce was finalized in 2016 after Khloé restarted the proceedings when Lamar was noticed consuming alcohol at a bar.

The retired basketball professional recurrently mentioned his relationship with Khloé throughout his stint on Celebrity Big Brother final 12 months, and on Monday his TV particular Sex, Drugs and Kardashians aired on Fox.

The TMZ function noticed Lamar converse at size about his years with Khloé – the place he even admitted that he knew marrying her would give him “relevance.”

“I was an amazing basketball player, but I know me marrying Khloé Kardashian gives me relevance in so many ways in the entertainment world, I knew what I signed up for,” he confessed. “I was doing business with my wife. It’s her business, so I’m making it my business.”

Lamar additionally revealed that taking up Khloé’s momager Kris as his supervisor noticed him generate profits all through the wedding. He informed TMZ’s Harvey Levin: “I used to call her ma. She showed a lot of love. She was cool. I loved her. We all got into business. It was a family business — you know that, Harvey.”

“I’m comfortable enough [for her to be my manager],” Lamar went on. “I’m happy enough to do it, I made some money. I came out on the positive.”

But all the things took a flip for the more serious following the loss of life of Lamar’s cousin in 2011, the place he mentioned that he successfully cheated on Khloé with cocaine and recalled the second that he informed her about his habit.

“Drugs — that was my girlfriend. I had a wife and cocaine,” he defined. “For part of my marriage, I had to tell [Khloé]. You can’t hide that forever. She was hurt, but Khloé was a good wife. She wasn’t dismissive or ‘Get away from me,’ she was protective and wanted to protect me even more.”

“I mean behind the scenes, I put her through some shit. Like shit that y’all don’t know… The stories that y’all don’t know is, like, really crazy,” Lamar added.

Lamar then opened up about his relationships with different girls whereas beneath the affect, and even recounted a time the place one of many girls needed to name Khloé to return and get him as a result of he was in such a foul method.

Admitting that he felt embarrassed by his antics, Lamar mentioned: “I’m having full-blown relationships on the road. My wife is Khloé Kardashian, I’m bugging. I’m laughing out of embarrassment right now — how [did I think I] was going to get out of that one?”

“What could I actually tell Khloé to leave her for a couple of hours to even, like, leave to go do drugs with some random woman?” he continued. “I’m going so heavy with drugs, [a] woman actually gets into my phone and actually calls Khloé and goes, ‘You gotta come get him. He’s fucking going crazy. He’s gonna kill himself.’ They took me to go get help that night.”

And in 2013, Khloé caught Lamar with a girl known as Polina Polonsky however he was so out of it that he later needed to name Khloé to ask if it had really occurred, and he insisted that she was laughing in regards to the incident when he bought involved.

But, in keeping with Lamar, the “final straw” for Khloé got here when she noticed a social media video of her husband rapping about dishonest on her.

Two years after Khloé filed for divorce, the notorious SoulCycle second occurred, and Lamar has maintained that Kris set him up. He mentioned: “As far as I can remember, I’m a little foggy, but as far as I can remember, she kind of hooked it up for me to meet Khloé down at SoulCycle.”

“I get down there and [Khloé] kind of treated me like she didn’t know me, which was hurtful a little bit,” he added. “She was kind of, like, making a scene and then, like, paparazzi came out of nowhere. So I’m hurt by that. Then it kind of came out that I tried to put my hands on her or something like that — then I’m really hurt. I got a little defensive.”

Lamar had beforehand made these claims in his 2019 ebook, and on the time Kris denied that she had any involvement within the assembly.

In spite of their fractured relationship, Khloé was by Lamar’s aspect all through his restoration from his 2015 overdose. He mentioned within the present: “Khloé, you know, she wiped my ass. It don’t get realer than that.”

“She would bring me pictures of my mother, my grandmother, help me with my memory,” he went on. “I couldn’t show how I really felt. I was hardly even talking. I could hardly say, ‘Thank you, Khloé.’ I could think it, but I couldn’t express it.”

“I wish at that time I was more cognitive to let her know how much I appreciate her for that. I couldn’t show how I really felt. I knew it had to be terribly frustrating for her,” Lamar concluded.

He additionally claimed that he didn’t knowingly take cocaine whereas on the Nevada brothel, and accused the ranch’s proprietor, Dennis Hof, of wanting him lifeless.

Lamar alleged: “I went there. I didn’t do drugs that night. I got there, had the drink and woke up three days later ripping tubes out of my neck, not knowing how I got there. They told me I was going to never walk or talk again.”

And greater than six years after their divorce was finalized, Lamar has maintained that he “of course” needs to get again along with Khloé however he’s “too shy” to ask her out for dinner.

“I’m not a loser and I felt like I lost. I would love to just take Khloé out to dinner,” he mentioned. “[But] I’m too shy and I’m a Scorpio and I hate being told no or being denied. I’m afraid.”