Lamar Odom has gotten his life back on track, for the most part. Not only is he terribly lucky to be alive today but, as of January, he has completed rehab and is living a cleaner life. Odom was found unconscious in a brothel in 2015 and rushed to the hospital where he suffered 12 strokes and two heart attacks. At the time he and Khloe Kardashian were in the process of divorcing but still legally married. Khloe postponed the divorce to see to Odom’s health. Once out of the hospital, Odom’s daughter, Destiny, 18 (Odom also has a son, Lamar Jr, 14), told her father if he did not seek help for his drug addiction, she would stop speaking to him. Now that he is drug free, he is working on a docuseries and an autobiography. He gave an exclusive interview to US Magazine during which he claims to take responsibility and says he regrets his actions. You can read the full thing here but below are his thoughts on his marriage:
Take Us back to the start of your marriage. Was Khloé aware of your drug use? I was hiding it for a while, but then I got frustrated and was like, f–k it. Around two years before we split up [in 2011], I was in the man cave she had made for me and she caught me. She was disappointed. So was I. The sad thing about it is, I don’t know if I was disappointed because I was actually doing the drug or because she caught me. She knew I was doing cocaine the whole time after that. It was my drug of choice. I’m not going to say she accepted it because that would be the wrong word. Tolerated would be a better word.
Do you regret sharing your marriage on TV? Businesswise, it opened up opportunities, like the fragrance Khloé and I created. We probably cursed it by calling it Unbreakable, but that was my baby. It also opened this gate up with other women who probably wouldn’t have been interested in me. When I became Khloé Kardashian’s man and on TV, it made me look more enticing. People who didn’t even know basketball would approach me because they knew Lammy.
You mean other women? Yes. Bitches and THOTs came out of the woodwork. If there is one thing I regret when I was married, it was having multiple affairs with different women. That wasn’t the stand-up thing to do. I wish I could have kept my d–k in my pants.
Odom is taking some responsibility for his actions, which is good, it sounds like he is looking to place blame, too. By referring to the women who made themselves available to him as “B!itches and THOTs” he is placing a portion of the culpability on them; there isn’t any reason to assign them different labels, especially such derogatory ones. As if “normal” women respected his relationship and kept their distance but these other vixens, with their serpentine tongues and forbidden apples, rendered him powerless. I’m also not in love with his comments about Khloe “tolerating” his drug use. I’m one of the last people to canonize a Kardashian but it’s not fair to put any responsibility on Khloe for this. Ruining his life and marriage with drugs and affairs is totally on him. Maybe Khloe didn’t speak up loudly but maybe that was because she didn’t know how to be heard on this – Odom is not a victim here. He needs to own that fact completely, which does not come across in these answers.
In the rest of the interview, he speaks about the October night in the brothel and waking up in the hospital (he doesn’t remember much) and about his struggle with cocaine. He also talks about this last rehab stay. It sounds like this is the first time he completed a full program and learned a lot about his disease during the process. When asked if he is clean now, Odom said, “Of course. Living sober, meaning no drugs, is a great feeling,” which sounds like he only gave up drugs, not drinking. Remember that photos of him drinking post hospital led Khloe to refile her divorce petition. Maybe he only had addiction issues with drugs, I don’t know. It just seems like it’s really soon after rehab to jump into a docuseries and autobiography. I hope he is paying attention to his health and not just getting his name back out there.
Photo credit: US Magazine, WENN Photos and Getty Images
So he broke his marital vows, and the women are the hoes?
mmmhmm. sounds like hes grown up so much and is taking responsibility for his actions. totally
And he broke his vows because of the show?? I’m sure that pro athletes NEVER get women throwing themselves at them. Way to pass the blame, Lamar.
I saw the video of this interview and YouTube and he still seems off to me. His words sounded slur like to me at times. I don’t know.
One answer he gave was interesting in regards to if he wants Khloe back – he said No, that that time is gone and he would never want to hurt her again. But that he regrets not having children with her.
Things that make me go hmmmm!
It’s better off they didn’t have kids together since their marriage didn’t work out ! He was on drugs and sleeping around…great father he would have been to them ! I already feel bad for the kids he has. LOL he’s saying the “b*tches and THOTS came out of the woodwork when he was married”…so they weren’t there when he was single? It’s always the women’s fault huh?
If he had 12 strokes (how is he still alive!) then perhaps that could explain his slurring speech?
Oh duh. I didn’t put two and two together on that.
I give Khloe credit for taking care of him during and after his hospitalization. It’s a shame he f-ed it up. I think she really wanted to reconcile.
I can’t believe a grown man uses the word ‘thot’
Ha! I had the same thought when I read that!
I kind of feel bad for khloe. She was always known as the “ugly sister” and was made fun of. She found this guy and ran down the aisle with him too soon. Knowing he was cheating and doing drugs must be why she never wanted to leave him home alone. Her obnoxious baby voice and calling him “lam lam” must have been torture.
He was lucky to have her willing to take care of him during their divorce.
He’s a scumbag for the derogatory remarks on women among other reasons.
It sounds as if he was using drugs during his time with the NBA. I don’t follow the sport or his career, but I imagine they drug test?? How did he hide it?
I have mixed feelings on Khloe… Most of the time I think she’s an airhead with bad plastic surgery, but I also admire her for sticking by him during his medical crisis.
He sounds like he has the maturity level of a teenager.
I don’t believe for a second she wasnt doing coke with him
yup.
“I wish I could have kept it in my pants.” Gee, thanks US Magazine for putting this on the cover of a magazine that it’s in every grocery store and Target in America. Sigh. I know I’m pearl clutching here but TMI and out for everyone to see it.
What a disgusting douche. Of course he doesn’t spare a thought about the women working in the brothel and their lives. Poor me me me.
I’m sure his daughter is much more well spoken than him as well. Must be weird growing up having a father talking about women this way and knowing he buys their consent.
if we expect Lamar Odom to take responsibility for the bad things he’s done, let us ALSO, as stand up WOMEN, expect the same responsibility from other women. Women that knowingly have affairs with married men are whores, in my honest opinion. It’s not JUST the man that’s the jerk, it’s the woman that knowingly sleeps with a married man, knowing he has children, knowing that she is also committing adultery – and doesn’t bat an eye. Most likely they had their eyes on that money prize they thought they could get a piece of. Whatever the reason, labeling a woman that went after him while he was married makes them NO better and, yes, makes them a whore. And a b!itch. And whatever a THOT is, LOL.