March 30, 2026, 4:21 p.m. ET
Per week earlier than Netflix’s “Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom” premieres March 31, the documentary’s topic has not seen the movie.
The two-time NBA champion, who dribbled into the Kardashians’ reality-sphere whereas concealing a drug behavior, is now a recovering addict approaching 60 days of sobriety once we communicate on March 24. (Odom accomplished a 30-day keep in rehab in February, following an arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence the month prior. Odom has pleaded not responsible, and a bench trial is scheduled for July 7.)“Every recovering addict knows that you want to kind of stay away from things that were traumatizing in your life,” Odom tells USA TODAY. The 46-year-old, who has been sober since Jan. 28, welcomes the chance to share his perspective, however revisiting the tragedies and transgressions in interviews comes at a value.
“I was telling my girlfriend on the way here, it’s like swimming in a cesspool of trauma,” Odom says. (His present companion hasn’t been confirmed.) “And I’m trying to get out of it, but the story reels me back into that pool every time. But I just know I’m bigger than the situation, and I hope to help a lot of people by giving my testimony. Not just with the story, but just in life, that we can all overcome addiction.”
Lamar Odom believes day at Nevada brothel might be ‘a hit,’ worries they could ‘want to finish the job’
On Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, Odom was discovered non-responsive at a now-demolished brothel roughly 80 miles exterior of Las Vegas. “They need to hurry, please” an individual on the Love Ranch begged in a call to 9-1-1, “because he’s got blood hanging out of his nose, white stuff coming out of his mouth. They can’t get him to wake up.”
Odom spent shut to 3 months recovering at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He says he suffered 12 strokes and 6 coronary heart assaults, however he finally defied docs’ predictions that he’d by no means stroll or speak once more.
At the time of the incident, workers of the Love Ranch told the Nye County Sheriff’s Office that Odom used cocaine the Saturday prior and had taken a number of sexual efficiency enhancing capsules. But Odom insists he didn’t overdose on cocaine.
“I didn’t have any cocaine to take to the brothel that day,” he says. “And I was kind of f—— heated that I just signed these divorce papers (from ex-wife Khloé Kardashian), and I thought I was going to live out a young addict mind’s dream and go to this brothel with some cocaine and go all out that night. And that just wasn’t the case.”
“It was like a hit,” Odom says of what transpired on the Love Ranch. “Obviously they missed. I don’t know if they want to finish the job.”
Kobe Bryant helped Khloé Kardashian determine on high-risk surgical procedure with ‘like a 10% chance’ it might work
In the documentary, Kardashian reveals that Odom’s lungs collapsed throughout his hospital keep. The “Khloé in Wonder Land” podcast host says Odom’s medical crew suggested they might carry out a surgical procedure with “like a 10% chance it will work, or he might die on the table.” Odom’s former Lakers teammate, the late Kobe Bryant, “helped me make the decision of doing the surgery,” Kardashian says in “Untold.” “We got his lungs to work, and he didn’t die. But he fell into a coma.”
“He’s been more than a brother to me,” Odom says of his relationship with Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash in 2020. “It’s the reason why I got him tattooed on my neck right here, so he can kind of stay in my ear and help guide me through this thing that we call life. My relationship with him was really special, and I kind of adapted and adopted the mamba mentality. And the mamba mentality is basically putting your best foot forward every day.”
Lamar Odom and Khloé Kardashian haven’t spoken, regardless of her participation within the documentary
Odom says he hasn’t been in contact with Kardashian, whom he divorced in 2016, or seen her since their televised reunion for Hulu’s “The Kardashians” which aired in February 2025. Their assembly, at instances, felt awkward and tense. Kardashian met Odom’s overt heat with unsettled emotions about their tumultuous previous.
“To me, it didn’t really go well,” Odom says. “Felt like she was in attack mode, but I can’t really invalidate her feelings, and I won’t do that. I kind of almost felt sorry for her, in a sense, when I walked away from it. Even though I know she’s OK − she’s in a good place, she has kids now (True and Tatum Thompson, with ex Tristan Thompson) − but I could understand the hurt that I caused her.”
Kardashian and Odom’s courtship was fast; 30 days after assembly in 2009, they tied the knot.
“It’s a time that I wouldn’t change,” Odom says. For essentially the most half. “Only thing I would change (would) probably be my actions. But it was a part of my book, part of my history, it ain’t going anywhere. But all I can do is try to be the best man I can be now for myself, for my children (Destiny and Lamar Odom Jr., shared with ex Liza Morales) and for my family.”
