Khloé Kardashian has made an explosive revelation about the moment she discovered Lamar Odom was using drugs again after spending months nursing him back to health following his near-fatal overdose.
Tells the full story for the first time in a new Netflix documentary.
In Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar OdomKhloé describes how she dropped everything when Odom was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel in October 2015, putting the nearly finalized divorce process on hold to take charge of his care.
“I never left the hospital,” he said. “I was there for about four months, with him every day. We were determined to get him walking and moving again.”
Odom had suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks after the overdose, something he describes in the documentary as “not your average shit.”
After three days in a coma, he briefly woke up. “He’s like, ‘Hey, baby,’ and he goes back to sleep,” Khloé recalled.
He was eventually transferred from Las Vegas to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles before moving to a private rehabilitation facility in early January.
When he was ready to leave, Khloé stepped up again: She rented him a house near hers in Calabasas, hired a caretaker and a chef, and oversaw his recovery.
“We were going to rehabilitate him,” he said. Then, in May 2016, he stopped by our house without warning.
What she found stopped her in her tracks.
“Once you know the smell of crack,” he said, “it’s the most disgusting, recognizable smell, and there’s nothing you can confuse it with.”
He decided to find out exactly what was going on.
“I remember slowly tiptoeing up the stairs. He was in his room, sitting on the edge of the bed, smoking crack. And I just punched him in the face. ‘I put my life on hold to take care of you. How did you get this? You don’t have a fucking phone. You can’t talk.'”
It turned out that Odom had a phone and had been hiding how much he had recovered.
“It was better than I thought,” Khloé said. “He was playing me so I could continue this lifestyle for him.”
She gave him until Monday to leave the house and told him she was done. “I never want to talk to you again,” he said.
She filed for divorce again and it was finalized in December 2016.
The two did not see each other again for nine years. When they finally met, as shown in The KardashiansKhloé told Odom that she had hit him and “destroyed everything in the house.”
Odom said he didn’t remember the details but didn’t rule them out. “That s**t shouldn’t have happened,” he said.
Khloé is now mom to daughter True, 7, and son Tatum, 3, with ex Tristan Thompson.
