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

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Lamar Odom’s ‘Intercourse, Medication and Kardashians’ Documentary Revelations

Trying again earlier than he strikes ahead. Lamar Odom recalled the highs and lows in his basketball profession and private life — particularly 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 medicine, 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 seek out success within the NBA within the early 2000s. Issues for the then-Los Angeles Lakers star took another turn when his son, Jayden, died of sudden infant death syndrome in 2005.

“His mom let loose a cry in that hospital I [would not] have wished on my worst enemy,” Odom recalled. “I needed to forgive myself too as a result of when he handed away, I used to be out partying all evening. I wasn’t even in the home. Like a bum. … [But I also wonder] how it will have affected me if I used to be there, and I needed to see him like that. Some stuff you simply have to offer to God.”

Odom and his highschool love, Liza Morales, had beforehand welcomed daughter Future 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 girls — together with actress Taraji P. Henson — Odom met Kardashian in 2009. They were married 30 days later.

When requested what “drew” him to Kardashian, Odom named her “energy and power,” explaining: “Her demeanor, simply the best way she carried herself. And her eyes jogged my memory of my mom’s eyes.”

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The twosome started documenting their life on Maintaining Up With the Kardashians and spinoff Khloé & Lamar. Two years into their union, the NBA star was combating a commerce to the Dallas Mavericks and fell into his previous patterns of drug use and meeting up with random women. 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 outside of SoulCycle. After signing the paperwork, he went to the Bunny Ranch in Nevada and practically died following an overdose in October 2015.

“I believe if I might have handed away that day or these nights, I believe [my life] can be thought of a tragedy. However the triumphant half is that I pulled via it,” Odom said in Monday’s doc. “, I’m stronger than ever. I’m extra centered than I ever was in my championship years. I’ve sort of obtained the identical focus. I don’t dwell life like a druggie anymore. … I’m so blessed to be right here and it’s a skinny line between not being right here and being right here. … You title me one one who obtained off medicine and issues obtained worse?”

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

Scroll via for the largest takeaways from Intercourse, Medication and Kardashians:

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Assembly Khloe

“Ron Artest was having a welcome to L.A. get together, I used to be sitting the V.I.P. … I used to be there with one other lady, a extremely enticing lady, and I see this lady. I acknowledge Rob Kardashian, however I didn’t know who Khloé was at the moment,” Odom recalled of assembly Khloé in 2009. “I [let her know] who I used to be and it’s loopy as a result of after 30 days, we’d be married. That’s spooky.”

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Lamar Particulars Private and Enterprise Relationship With Kris

“I used to name her ma. She confirmed numerous love. She was cool. I liked her. All of us obtained into enterprise. It was a household enterprise — you recognize that, Harvey,” Odom informed TMZ’s Harvey Levin of Kardashian’s mom, Kris Jenner. “I’m comfy sufficient [for her to be my manager]. I’m pleased sufficient to do it. … I made some cash. I got here out on the constructive.”

He added: “I don’t suppose individuals actually give them credit score for his or her household dynamic. Household goes to undergo s—t and I believe that they’ve dealt with their s—t phenomenally good.”

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Filming ‘Khloe & Lamar’

Odom referred to as the spinoff collection a “blessing,” including, “I used to be an incredible basketball participant, however I do know me marrying Khloé Kardashian offers me relevance in so some ways within the leisure world. … I knew what I signed up for. I used to be doing enterprise with my spouse. It’s her enterprise, so I’m making it my enterprise.”

The athlete referred to as the Lakers “very supportive” of his determination to movie the present, revealing he “requested” Kobe Bryant for his ideas. “He was similar to, ‘, in the event you carry it, [we] don’t care.’ And I wound up profitable the NBA Sixth Man of the 12 months Award, so I knew he had numerous respect for it. … That was the happiest I’ve ever been in my grownup life. … She obtained me every thing I needed.”

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What Khloe Knew About Lamar’s Drug Use

Odom was in a “darkish place” when he was traded to the Mavericks whereas dealing with the dying of his cousin in 2011. “I obtained there and I simply can’t make a shot. … Nothing was going proper,” the basketball participant, who was reduce earlier than the top of the season, recalled.

As his profession on the courtroom got here to a crashing halt, Odom turned again to medicine. “Medication — that was my girlfriend. I had a spouse and cocaine,” he stated. “For a part of my marriage, I needed to inform [Khloé]. You possibly can’t conceal that without end. … She was damage, however Khloé was an excellent spouse. She wasn’t dismissive or [saying], ‘Get away from me.’ … She was protecting and needed to guard me much more. She [stood by me]. I imply behind the scenes, I put her via some s—t. Like s—t that y’all don’t know. … The tales that y’all don’t know is, like, actually loopy.”

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Dishonest on Khloe

Odom admitted that he had “these random girls popping out” of the woodwork. “It appeared like all of them got here out at one time. I’m having full-blown relationships on the street. My spouse is Khloé Kardashian, I’m bugging. I’m laughing out of embarrassment proper now — how [did I think I] was going to get out of that one? … Like, what might I really inform Khloé to depart her for a few hours to even, like, go away to go do medicine with some random lady? I’m going so heavy with medicine, [one] lady really will get into my telephone and really calls Khloé and goes, ‘You gotta come get him. He’s f—king going loopy. He’s gonna kill himself.’ … They took me to go get assist that evening.”

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

“I wound up getting in touch with Khloé and requested her, ‘[Did that really] occur?’ She was laughing about it, like, ‘Yeah, Lamar I needed to beat some bitches’ ass.’ … Clearly, she needed to have someone tailing me or following me,” Odom recalled.

In accordance with the doc, the “closing straw” for Kardashian was a social media video of a excessive Odom rapping about dishonest on her.

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Lamar Alleges Kris Informed 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.

“So far as I can bear in mind — I’m a little bit foggy — however so far as I can bear in mind, she sort of hooked it up for me to fulfill Khloé down at SoulCycle. I get down there and she or he sort of handled me like she didn’t know me, which was hurtful a little bit bit. She was sort of, like, making a scene after which, like, paparazzi got here out of nowhere. So I’m damage by that. Then it sort of got here out that I attempted to place my fingers on her or one thing like that — then I’m actually damage. I obtained a little bit defensive.”

The doc then reduce to footage of an offended Odom exterior of TMZ Places of work 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 “arrange” by Jenner, Odom isn’t certain, responding: “What would you be organising? … What would you get out of that? Making an attempt to break me or not make me need to come round no extra or have individuals take into consideration me a sure method?”

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 informed Odom the place Kardashian can be when he first repeated the allegations in his 2019 guide.)

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The Night time on the Bunny Ranch

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

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

“Khloé, you recognize, she wiped my ass. It don’t get realer than that,” he recalled. “She would carry me footage of my mom, my grandmother, assist me with my reminiscence. …  I couldn’t present how I actually felt. I used to be hardly even speaking. I might hardly say, ‘Thanks, Khloé.’ I might suppose it, however I couldn’t specific it.”

He concluded: “I want at the moment I used to be extra cognitive to let her know that how a lot I admire her for that. I couldn’t present how I actually felt. I knew it needed to be terribly irritating for her.”

Odom insisted that he didn’t knowingly do cocaine on the ranch, alleging that he was slipped medicine and claiming Bunny Ranch proprietor Dennis Hof, who died in 2018, needed him useless. “I went there. I didn’t do medicine that evening. … I obtained there, had the drink and wakened three days later ripping tubes out of my neck, not realizing how I obtained there,” he claimed. “They informed me I used to be going to by no means stroll or speak once more. I walked into this constructing and I’m speaking to you proper now. … That is God’s plan. I’m his son and I’m simply dwelling.”

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Relapsing Once more and Lastly Getting Clear

When his divorce from Kardashian was finalized, Odom was combating cash. Along with blowing money on medicine and prostitutes, he had been funding the lives of family and friends members, together with his dad. Odom bought his Lakers championship rings, admitting he couldn’t recall how a lot he made as he began doing medicine once more. (Years later, a fan approached him within the crowd at a Lakers recreation and revealed he had the rings and returned them at no cost.)

“That exhibits you ways robust habit is. We see it on a regular basis. In Hollywood, we see it f—king on a regular basis,” he stated. “I’m simply one of many fortunate ones that it didn’t take.”

Odom stated his “love for all times” and wanting to inform “the Lord thanks for sparing him” has helped him be sober as we speak.

“The considered cocaine, as fast as me simply saying it, is as fast because it left my thoughts to do it. I’m from the road, like, I don’t even understand how a motherf—ker can put his self within the mixture of any cocaine with the s—t that’s occurring proper now — all this fentanyl and stuff like that. It ain’t even price it,” he stated.  

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Lamar Is Nonetheless Open to a Reconciliation With Khloe

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

“Do I ever suppose I might be in love like that once more? That would probably occur. … If I open myself up sufficient,” he stated, confirming that he would “after all” get again along with Kardashian if she ever gave him a shot. He, nonetheless, not feels he can or ought to attain out. “I’m not a loser and I felt like I misplaced. I might love to simply take Khloé out to dinner. … [But] I’m too shy and I’m a Scorpio and I hate being informed no or being denied. I’m afraid.”

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Lamar on Tristan

Kardashian started courting 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 occasions, together with when he found he was anticipating a child with one other lady as he inspired the fact star to maneuver ahead with having a child boy through surrogate throughout fall 2021.  

“When she will get damage, after all that hurts me. I believe what hurts me extra is that it’s not my place to guard her. I can solely shield her if she says, ‘Lamar, I want your assist with this,’” he stated.