For the first time, everyone, from the employees at the Love Ranch to Khloé Kardashian, is sharing their perspective on what led up to Lamar Odom’s overdose on October 13, 2015. Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom hears interviews from Odom’s family, including his children, his childhood friends, and him on how his drug abuse affected them and what secrets they’ve kept from that night over ten years ago. Below, the biggest revelations from the documentary episode of the night that almost killed Odom.
Kardashian and Odom famously had an incredibly short timeline for their wedding; they had only been dating for less than two months before they officially tied the knot on September 27, 2009. It’s not surprising that Odom’s family didn’t take the wedding seriously; they thought he was kidding. “I really thought he was joking,” his first wife, Liza Morales, explained. “I said, ‘My God, come on now. That’s too soon,” Janean Mercer, his aunt, added. None of his children went to his wedding, and his eldest son, Lamar Odom Jr., doesn’t remember his dad telling him he was getting married. Mercer says none of his family was invited. His childhood friend Anthony “Pumpkin” Booker attended and said that Odom talked to him for two hours, telling him that marrying Kardashian would better his future.
“Khloé and Lamar was not my idea. Khloé and Lamar was very much led by Lamar,” Kardashian explained. “I was spread really thin. I also didn’t want to jeopardize the family brand, which was Keeping Up at the time. I thought there was so many Kardashian shows.” She also reminded Odom that his main career was being on the Lakers. “He did love Khloé, but he wanted to be on reality TV for a long time,” his daughter, Destiny Odom, added.
Odom went missing, and Kardashian kept trying to contact him. The woman he was sleeping with took his phone and called her, asking Kardashian to come pick him up from Big Bear because he keeps “wanting money and drugs.” It wasn’t the only time Kardashian had to clean up after his drug use. “I remember needing to go to hotel rooms to clean up after him so housekeeping didn’t sell a story,” Kardashian remembered. “I was such an enabler without knowing I was an enabler. But I just felt such a responsibility to cover this up, hold it together, and protect him.”
After the Lakers won the 2009 championship, his children were so excited to be in the parade with Odom. But once they knocked on his door before the parade started, he didn’t let them inside because he partied the night before and he didn’t want his kids to see him “like this.” “Rejection from a parent is extremely hard and hurtful. It definitely pains your development growing up,” Destiny explained. “There are some moments you never forget. Now I know that he was partying and using.” Odom doesn’t remember this, explaining that because of his addiction, there are a lot of stories he doesn’t remember.
“When we went into the hospital room, it was hard seeing him all tubed up and everything,” Destiny shared. “He was so swollen. I remember how swollen he was… I was like, ‘You can’t leave. Like we still have memories to make.’”
Kardashian rushed to the hospital to support Odom. Odom’s father, Joe, who Kardashian said was an addict himself, assumed he was the beneficiary and asked the doctors to take Odom off life support. “And I remember walking in around that time, and I kid you not, it was a scene out of a movie. I’m like, ‘Sorry, Joe, I’m still his wife. What do you need?’ And Joe wanted a pair of Nikes and $100, and a hotel room for the night. And Joe left, and never came back,” she said. Their divorce was not finalized due to a backlog in the courts, and she was able to help make medical decisions to give him the best chance.
“I remember he was driving to the Lakers facility to go to practice and he was listening to the radio,” Kardashian explained, as news outlets began reporting he would be traded from LA to Dallas. “The drug use that transpired from the Dallas trade was monstrous.” He only lasted a few months with the Mavericks due to his drug abuse.
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