I will report on my current situation with my ex-boyfriend.
Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian are speaking out about their rocky past relationship, his infidelity and drug use, and how she “enabled” him.
The former couple, who were married from 2009 to 2016, appear in a new Netflix documentary, Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom, where they talk about their marriage and their near-fatal drug overdose in a Nevada brothel in 2015.
Odom, 46, exclusively told Page Six that he is “grateful” to be married to Khloe, 41. “But people and places change in your life,” he says recently. “I just work on being the best version of myself and being present every day.”
On screen in the doc, the former NBA player recalls his 2015 ordeal with an overdose, saying he had “12 strokes and six heart attacks.” “That’s not an average performance. I was dead for three days and I still survived.”
Below are the biggest bombshells from the doc (currently streaming).
Odom wanted to “improve his future” through marriage.
On screen, Odom’s childhood friend Anthony “Pumpkin” Booker recalls attending Odom’s televised wedding to Kardashian in 2009.
Booker claimed at the time that Odom told Booker that the Kardashians “knew people” and had “an unusual connection” and that “he was doing what he was doing to improve his future.”
In the doc, Odom recalled what he saw in Khloe, saying, “I look at how she lives, I look at their lifestyle, and I’m like, ‘This is how I want to live.'”
Destiny, 28, Odom’s daughter with childhood sweetheart Liza Morales, appeared on screen and said, “He certainly loved Khloe…but he always wanted to be on a reality show.”
his infidelity
Odom and Kardashian talk about how he cheated on her during their marriage. They’ve talked about it before.
“How on earth did you marry this woman on TV and then have an affair?” Odom says on screen, as if rebuking him for his past actions.
In the documents, he recalls that one night when he was “on the verge of losing his mind”, the unnamed woman with whom he was having an affair at the time nervously picked up his phone and called Chloe.
Chloe recalls on screen how she received a phone call from a woman saying she was cheating on her with your husband. According to Chloe, his mistress was freaked out that he was on drugs and “going crazy” and told her, “I have to get out of this car, can you come pick me up?”
Chloe says she was an ‘enabler’
“I was looking for him in alleys, I was looking for him in motels,” Chloe said onscreen, adding that she had left drug paraphernalia, including spoons and tinfoil, around the hotel room.
She said housekeeping employees “went to his hotel room to clean up after him” to “not sell the story” about his drug use.
“I was such an enabler without even knowing that I was an enabler,” she said in the document, adding that she felt “responsible” to cover up her then-husband’s drug addiction to “protect him.”
Chloe: “I couldn’t sleep for years” “I felt scared for myself”
Chloe recalled that she was 24 years old at the time and “still trying to figure out my life” when she learned the extent of his drug use. She attributed her behavior at the time to her “youthfulness.”
“I remember feeling scared for myself, keeping all my secrets hidden,” she says onscreen.
Thinking about why she “enabled” him, Chloe states in the document that he was her first love. She also knew that Odom had suffered trauma in his life — his father had also lost his family to drug addiction, and Odom had lost a young son to SIDS — and that past experiences had caused him to “rationalize” his actions, she said. It made her want to “fix” him and “love him enough” to make him better.
“I was fighting every day to protect him, to not get caught. It seems insane…I haven’t been able to sleep for years,” she said onscreen.
Chloe says she needed to ‘fill out’
In December 2011, Odom was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Dallas Mavericks. At the time, he was hurt and shocked, feeling rejected by the Lakers, and turned to drugs.
“The drug use that occurred in the Dallas deal was horrific…I’ve never seen so much drugs and such a dark aura around us,” Chloe said, adding that the incident happened when she arrived in Dallas and was “locked in a hotel bathroom for probably four days” doing drugs.
In June 2012, he was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. Khloe recalled on-screen that when the Clippers season ended, she “did some crazy drugs…I overdosed a few times and I had to pump him in the stomach.”
Chloe didn’t originally plan on getting divorced.
The former couple originally signed divorce papers in July 2015.
At the time, it was part of an “intervention” and Chloe said she was “encouraged.” She gave him an ultimatum: he needed to go to rehab or she would divorce him. According to Khloe, Odom replied, “All I want is a passport. Yeah, let’s get a divorce.”
After those words, Khloe said, “I was looking around like, ‘I don’t want a divorce. You guys told me I had to say this!'” Khloe didn’t specify whether she meant the Kardashians.
Before Chloe found out about his overdose, she dreamed of him dying
On October 13, 2015, Odom was hospitalized after overdosing at the Love Ranch brothel in Nevada. He was then put on life support and put into a coma. The night before she found out, Khloe was doing a photo shoot for a magazine and recalled, “I had a dream that Lamar had died.”
After the photo shoot, he noticed that his sister Kim had called him three times.
“I remember getting in the car and calling[Kim]and screaming, ‘Lamar is in Las Vegas overdosing,'” she recalled.
Odom’s father allegedly tried to remove Odom from life support.
Odom’s father Joe was a heroin addict who abandoned the family when Odom was young. Joe was at the hospital when Khloe rushed to see Lamar.
“I think he thought he was Lamar’s beneficiary. Joe said, ‘Don’t put him on life support, turn off the machine.'” I remember walking in… I was like, ‘Sorry, Joe, I’m still his wife.’ What do you need? ” Chloe recalls on screen.
At the time, Khloe and Odom had signed divorce papers, but she put the proceedings on hold while Khloe was hospitalized and recovered.
She recalled that Odom’s father asked her for a pair of Nike shoes, $100 and a hotel room for the night. After she gave him those items, Joe “left and never returned.”
Chloe added, “I believed in myself more than anyone around him.”
Kobe Bryant supported Khloe’s decision to save Odom’s life
Odom’s former Lakers teammate and friend Bryant, who died at age 41 in a 2020 helicopter crash, came to visit Odom when he was hospitalized. Khloe recalled that Odom suffered brain damage and “a collapsed lung.”
Doctors told her she needed to undergo a risky surgery that might work, or she might “die on the table.”
“Kobe Bryant was there, and he helped me make the decision to do the surgery. We got his lungs working and he didn’t die, but he went into a coma,” she recalls.
chaos in the hospital
Odom was hospitalized for about four months after overdosing. Chloe recalls that when the people first came to visit, “it turned out that three of them were drug dealers and they were rummaging through his personal bags trying to collect money.”
Following the incident, she decided on a “lockdown” and said visitors must be allowed.
Chloe says she “punched him in the face”
When Odom was discharged from the hospital in 2015, he could talk a little, but he couldn’t take a shower on his own.
“We rented a house for him…I had a manager, I had a chef, and we were going to rehabilitate him.”
Her plans fell apart one day when she visited Odom and found him “sitting on the edge of the bed smoking crack” in the bedroom of the house she was renting for him.
“I just punched him in the face,” she said onscreen.
“I just put my life on hold to take care of you,” she recalled angrily. “He was better than I expected. He played me, and I was able to continue this lifestyle because of him.”
After hitting him, she tells him he has a few days to leave the house. She remembers telling him, “It’s over, I’m not paying you anything, and I don’t want to talk to you again.”
“Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom” is available on Netflix.
