Lamar Odom Questioned Khloé Kardashian’s Claim That His Dad Wanted To Take Him Off Life Support After His 2015 Overdose

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If you’re wondering wherefore everyone is abruptly talking astir Lamar Odom again, it’ll beryllium due to the fact that of a caller buzzy documentary that came retired connected Netflix past week.

Untold: The Life & Death of Lamar Odom tracks the highs and lows of Lamar’s NBA vocation and idiosyncratic life, with a absorption connected his drug addiction — namely, that near-fatal overdose astatine a Nevada brothel successful 2015.

Someone who played a immense relation successful Lamar’s beingness during this clip was Khloé Kardashian, whom helium joined successful 2009, astir a period aft they met.

Though their matrimony seemed blessed done the lens of world TV cameras, Lamar was struggling with addiction, and arsenic the Netflix documentary tracks, it was Khloé who had to pick up the pieces, adjacent aft they broke up successful 2013.

Describing herself arsenic “an enabler without knowing [she] was an enabler,” Khloé said successful the caller doc: “I was either looking for him successful alleys, looking for him successful motels. He would person tinfoil cutouts oregon spoons, and freebasing things, and leaving things everywhere. I retrieve needing to spell to edifice rooms to cleanable up aft him, truthful the housekeeping didn’t merchantability a story.”

Khloé had already filed for divorce from Lamar erstwhile helium overdosed connected cocaine, alcohol, and cannabis successful a Las Vegas brothel connected October 13, 2015. As good arsenic ruptured kidneys and a collapsed lung, Lamar suffered six bosom attacks and 12 strokes portion helium was successful a coma for 3 days.

When Lamar yet woke up, it was Khloé who remained by his broadside passim his four-month recovery, helping him larn however to locomotion and speech again. This is each depicted successful the Netflix documentary. However, Lamar has travel retired to quality immoderate of the claims — including the proposition that it was Khloé who saved his life.

In response, Lamar said: “In immoderate ways. God saved my life. My lord saved my life, honestly…She took attraction of me, but God took attraction of maine the most. What I came backmost from is similar a aesculapian miracle.”

Elsewhere successful the doc, Khloé told a communicative astir however Lamar’s father, Joe Odom, seemingly wanted his lad taken disconnected beingness enactment successful the aftermath of the overdose. “We get to the hospital,” Khloé claimed. “His dada was there. I assume, [he] thought he’s present the beneficiary to Lamar. And Joe conscionable said, ‘Don’t enactment him connected beingness support. Turn those machines off.’”

This enactment from the documentary went pretty viral, prompting radical to, again, recognition Khloé with redeeming Lamar’s life. However, Lamar has questioned this communicative astir his father, saying: “I conscionable can’t spot him ever, ever doing that.”

“You know, I was knocked retired and dormant astatine that time,” Lamar explained during his Today appearance. “If you cognize Joe Odom, I don’t deliberation that’s thing that would ever travel retired of his mouth. He was my biggest fan. I don’t cognize wherever that got mistranslated.”

For what it’s worth, Khloé and Lamar bash not person a adjacent narration today. They finalized their divorcement successful 2016 aft Khloé recovered him using drugs again, and, aft that, they went 9 years without speaking.

Their archetypal speech successful astir a decennary was caught connected camera for The Kardashians successful 2025, and Khloé has since described the on-camera reunion arsenic “sad” and “emotionally draining.” When asked astir the gathering connected Today, Lamar agreed that it was “awkward.”

“It wasn’t truly bully for me, but erstwhile you family, you ever family, truthful she ain’t going nowhere,” helium said. “I volition ever person emotion for her, but being successful love? No.”

You tin ticker Lamar connected Today here. Untold: The Life & Death of Lamar Odom is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is struggling with substance abuse, you tin telephone SAMHSA’s National Helpline astatine 1-800-662-HELP (4357) and find much resources here.

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