Lamar Odom’s ‘Sex, Drugs and Kardashians’ Documentary Revelations

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Lamar Odom’s ‘Sex, Drugs and Kardashians’ Documentary Revelations

Looking again earlier than he strikes ahead. Lamar Odom recalled the highs and lows in his basketball profession and private life — specifically his marriage to Khloé Kardashian and struggles with substance abuse — in his new TV particular, Sex, Drugs and Kardashians, which premiered on Monday, January 2.

After navigating childhood with a father hooked on medication, Odom, 43, started to dabble with weed in highschool after he was caught dishonest on the SATs. His partying — and love for girls — continued when he began to search out success within the NBA within the early 2000s. Things for the then-Los Angeles Lakers star took one other flip when his son, Jayden, died of sudden toddler loss of life syndrome in 2005.

“His mother let out a cry in that hospital I [would not] have wished on my worst enemy,” Odom recalled. “I had to forgive myself too because when he passed away, I was out partying all night. I wasn’t even in the house. Like a bum. … [But I also wonder] how it would have affected me if I was there, and I had to see him like that. Some things you just have to give to God.”

Odom and his highschool love, Liza Morales, had beforehand welcomed daughter Destiny in 1998 when he was 19 years previous and son Lamar Jr. in 2002. As his partying and dishonest escalated following Jayden’s passing, Morales ended their relationship for good.

After persevering with so far a wide range of ladies — together with actress Taraji P. Henson — Odom met Kardashian in 2009. They had been married 30 days later.

When requested what “drew” him to Kardashian, Odom named her “power and strength,” explaining: “Her demeanor, just the way she carried herself. And her eyes reminded me of my mother’s eyes.”

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The twosome started documenting their life on Keeping Up With the Kardashians and spinoff Khloé & Lamar. Two years into their union, the NBA star was fighting a commerce to the Dallas Mavericks and fell into his previous patterns of drug use and assembly up with random ladies. Kardashian pulled the plug on their marriage after he launched a video of himself bragging about dishonest when he was excessive in November 2013.

Odom didn’t signal the divorce paperwork till fall 2015, holding out hope for a reunion. He knew it was over for good after a tense meetup exterior of SoulCycle. After signing the paperwork, he went to the Bunny Ranch in Nevada and practically died following an overdose in October 2015.

“I think if I would have passed away that day or those nights, I think [my life] would be considered a tragedy. But the triumphant part is that I pulled through it,” Odom mentioned in Monday’s doc. “You know, I’m stronger than ever. I’m more focused than I ever was in my championship years. I’ve kind of got the same focus. I don’t live life like a druggie anymore. … I’m so blessed to be here and it’s a thin line between not being here and being here. … You name me one person who got off drugs and things got worse?”

Odom, whose divorce from Kardashian was finalized in 2016, added that he now has “control” over each his intercourse and drug habit.

Scroll by means of for the most important takeaways from Sex, Drugs and Kardashians:

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Meeting Khloe

“Ron Artest was having a welcome to L.A. party, I was sitting the V.I.P. … I was there with another woman, a really attractive woman, and I see this girl. I recognize Rob Kardashian, but I didn’t know who Khloé was at that time,” Odom recalled of meeting Khloé in 2009. “I [let her know] who I was and it’s crazy because after 30 days, we’d be married. That’s spooky.”

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Lamar Details Personal and Business Relationship With Kris

“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,” Odom told TMZ’s Harvey Levin of Kardashian’s mother, Kris Jenner. “I’m comfortable enough [for her to be my manager]. I’m happy enough to do it. … I made some money. I came out on the positive.”

He added: “I don’t think people really give them credit for their family dynamic. Family is going to go through s—t and I think that they’ve handled their s—t phenomenally good.”

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Filming ‘Khloe & Lamar’

Odom known as the spinoff sequence a “blessing,” including, “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. I was doing business with my wife. It’s her business, so I’m making it my business.”

The athlete known as the Lakers “very supportive” of his choice to movie the present, revealing he “asked” Kobe Bryant for his ideas. “He was just like, ‘You know, if you bring it, [we] don’t care.’ And I wound up winning the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award, so I knew he had a lot of respect for it. … That was the happiest I’ve ever been in my adult life. … She got me everything I wanted.”

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What Khloe Knew About Lamar’s Drug Use

Odom was in a “dark place” when he was traded to the Mavericks whereas dealing with the loss of life of his cousin in 2011. “I got there and I just can’t make a shot. … Nothing was going right,” the basketball participant, who was minimize earlier than the tip of the season, recalled.

As his profession on the court docket got here to a crashing halt, Odom turned again to medication. “Drugs — that was my girlfriend. I had a wife and cocaine,” he mentioned. “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 [saying], ‘Get away from me.’ … She was protective and wanted to protect me even more. She [stood by me]. I mean behind the scenes, I put her through some s—t. Like s—t that y’all don’t know. … The stories that y’all don’t know is, like, really crazy.”

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Cheating on Khloe

Odom admitted that he had “these random women coming out” of the woodwork. “It seemed like they all came out at one time. 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? … Like, 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? I’m going so heavy with drugs, [one] woman actually gets into my phone and actually calls Khloé and goes, ‘You gotta come get him. He’s f—king going crazy. He’s gonna kill himself.’ … They took me to go get help that night.”

In September 2013, Odom was caught by Kardashian with a lady named Polina Polonsky.

“I wound up getting in contact with Khloé and asked her, ‘[Did that really] happen?’ She was laughing about it, like, ‘Yeah, Lamar I had to beat some bitches’ ass.’ … Obviously, she had to have somebody tailing me or following me,” Odom recalled.

According to the doc, the “final straw” for Kardashian was a social media video of a excessive Odom rapping about dishonest on her.

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Lamar Alleges Kris Told Him Khloe Would Be a SoulCycle

Two years after Kardashian filed for divorce, Odom was photographed making an attempt to speak to her exterior of an train class.

“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 she kind of treated me like she didn’t know me, which was hurtful a little bit. 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.”

The doc then minimize to footage of an offended Odom exterior of TMZ Offices in August 2015, yelling about how the outlet made him appear to be he was “stalking” his ex.

When requested whether or not he now thinks he was “set up” by Jenner, Odom isn’t certain, responding: “What would you be setting up? … What would you get out of that? Trying to ruin me or not make me want to come around no more or have people think about me a certain way?”

Two months after the incident, Odom lastly signed the divorce paperwork, headed to Nevada and went on his near-fatal bender.

(Jenner denied that she instructed Odom the place Kardashian could be when he first repeated the allegations in his 2019 ebook.)

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The Night on the Bunny Ranch

During his October 2015 go to to the authorized brothel, Odom famous that he handed over his bank card and mentioned to cost $75,000 in an effort to “overpay” to attempt to hold his location secret.

Odom was discovered unresponsive and in a coma for a number of days earlier than he awakened and noticed Kardashian in his hospital room.

“Khloé, you know, she wiped my ass. It don’t get realer than that,” he recalled. “She would bring me pictures of my mother, my grandmother, help me with my memory. …  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.”

He concluded: “I wish at that time I was more cognitive to let her know that 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.”

Odom insisted that he didn’t knowingly do cocaine on the ranch, alleging that he was slipped medication and claiming Bunny Ranch proprietor Dennis Hof, who died in 2018, wished him lifeless. “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,” he claimed. “They told me I was going to never walk or talk again. I walked into this building and I’m talking to you right now. … This is God’s plan. I’m his son and I’m just living.”

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Relapsing Again and Finally Getting Clean

When his divorce from Kardashian was finalized, Odom was fighting cash. In addition to blowing money on medication and prostitutes, he had been funding the lives of pals and relations, together with his dad. Odom offered his Lakers championship rings, admitting he couldn’t recall how a lot he made as he began doing medication once more. (Years later, a fan approached him within the crowd at a Lakers recreation and revealed he had the rings and returned them free of charge.)

“That shows you how strong addiction is. We see it all the time. In Hollywood, we see it f—king all the time,” he mentioned. “I’m just one of the lucky ones that it didn’t take.”

Odom mentioned his “love for life” and wanting to inform “the Lord thank you for sparing him” has helped him be sober as we speak.

“The thought of cocaine, as quick as me just saying it, is as quick as it left my mind to do it. I’m from the street, like, I don’t even know how a motherf—ker can put his self in the mix of any cocaine with the s—t that’s going on right now — all this fentanyl and stuff like that. It ain’t even worth it,” he mentioned.  

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Lamar Is Still Open to a Reconciliation With Khloe

Odom mentioned that nobody however Kardashian has ever made him really feel “secure” sufficient to get married.

“Do I ever think I could be in love like that again? That could possibly happen. … If I open myself up enough,” he mentioned, confirming that he would “of course” get again along with Kardashian if she ever gave him a shot. He, nonetheless, now not feels he can or ought to attain out. “I’m not a loser and I felt like I lost. I would love to just take Khloé out to dinner. … [But] I’m too shy and I’m a Scorpio and I hate being told no or being denied. I’m afraid.”

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Lamar on Tristan

Kardashian started relationship Tristan Thompson in 2016, welcoming daughter True in 2018 and a son in July 2022. Thompson has been caught dishonest on Kardashian a number of instances, together with when he found he was anticipating a child with one other girl as he inspired the fact star to maneuver ahead with having a child boy by way of surrogate throughout fall 2021.  

“When she gets hurt, of course that hurts me. I think what hurts me more is that it’s not my place to protect her. I can only protect her if she says, ‘Lamar, I need your help with this,’” he mentioned.