For the first time, everyone from the Love Ranch staff to Khloe Kardashian are sharing their perspective on what led to Lamar Odom’s overdose on October 13, 2015. Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom Hears interviews with Odom’s family, including his children, his childhood friends, and how his drug abuse affected them and what secrets they keep about that night ten years ago. Below, the biggest revelations from the documentary episode of the night that almost killed Odom.
Kardashian and Odom’s famous timeline for their marriage was incredibly short; They were only dating for less than two months before they officially tied the knot on September 27, 2009. It is not surprising that Odom’s family did not take marriage seriously; They thought he was joking. “I really thought he was joking,” explained his first wife, Liza Morales. “I said, ‘Oh my God, come on now. It’s too early,'” said Jennion Mercer, his aunt. None of his children went to his wedding, and his eldest son, Lamar Odom Jr., does not remember his father telling him he was going to get 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 improve his future.
“khloe and lamar This was not my idea. khloe and lamar Lamar largely took the lead, Kardashian explained. I was really spread thin. I also didn’t want to jeopardize the family brand, which was keeping up In those days. I thought there were a lot of Kardashian shows. He also reminded Odom that his main career was on the Lakers. His daughter, Destiny Odom, said, “He loved Khloe, but he’s wanted to be on reality TV for a long time.”
Odom went missing and Kardashian kept trying to contact him. The woman he was sleeping with took his phone and called him and told Kardashian to come pick him up at Big Bear because he “wants money and drugs.” This wasn’t the only time Kardashian had to come clean after drug use. “I remember having to go into hotel rooms to clean after that so housekeeping wouldn’t sell any stories,” Kardashian recalled. “I was a supporter without even knowing it. But I just felt a responsibility to hide it, keep it together, and protect her.”
After the Lakers won the 2009 championship, his children were very excited to join Odom in the parade. But once they knocked on her door before the parade started, she wouldn’t let them in because she had partied the night before and didn’t want her children to see her “like this”. Destiny explained, “Rejection by parents is extremely difficult and hurtful. It definitely hurts your development as you grow up.” “There are some moments you never forget. Now I know he was partying and using.” Odom does not remember this, stating that because of his addiction, there are many stories he does not remember.
“When we walked into the hospital room, it was hard to see him completely shut down,” Destiny shared. “He was so swollen. I remember how swollen he was… I said, ‘You can’t go. Like we still have memories to make.'”
Kardashian arrived at the hospital to support Odom. Odom’s father, Joe, whom Kardashian said was an addict himself, assumed he was the beneficiary and asked doctors to remove Odom from life support. “And I remember walking in there at the time, and I’m not kidding, it was a scene out of a movie. I said, ‘Sorry, Joe, I’m still his wife. What do you want?’ And Joe needed a pair of Nikes and $100, and a hotel room for the night. And Joe left, and never came back,” she said. Their divorce could not be finalized due to pending cases in the courts and she was able to help him make medical decisions to give him the best chance.
“I remember driving to the Lakers facility for practice and he was listening to the radio,” Kardashian explained, just as news outlets began reporting that he would be traded from L.A. to Dallas. “The drug use that came out of the Dallas business was horrific.” He only lasted a few months with the Mavericks due to drug abuse.
