Lamar Odom's past is a 'cesspool of trauma,' he says: 'I don't know what made me relevant now'

After his October 2015 overdose astatine a Nevada brothel, Lamar Odom says, helium had “12 strokes and six bosom attacks. All my doctors say, like, I’m a walking miracle.”

Now, much than a decennary later, the Love Ranch brothel has been demolished, but Odom is inactive around.

The erstwhile Laker and onetime hubby of Khloé Kardashian is telling his communicative for “The Death and Life of Lamar Odom,” the newest occurrence of Netflix’s documentary bid “Untold,” on with Kardashian, erstwhile manager Phil Jackson and others who were astir during his Oct. 13, 2015, wellness emergency. The occurrence premiered Tuesday.

“You cognize what’s funny?” the 46-year-old erstwhile subordinate told Sports Illustrated successful an interrogation published Monday. “I haven’t adjacent watched it yet. You cognize why? Because I lived it.”

Odom, who conscionable got retired of different period of rehab successful February, insists that the 2015 occurrence was not a specified overdose but a “hit,” an effort connected his life.

“Right erstwhile I signed the divorcement papers, I was like, ‘I’m gonna get it in.’ The Bunny Ranch I utilized to ever spot connected TV, but I don’t person immoderate coke to take,” helium says successful the documentary. “ ... It’s brainsick erstwhile you deliberation astir [how] 1 decision, truthful large oregon truthful minor, could beryllium truthful pivotal to you and to radical that you truly love.”

The precocious Dennis Hof, proprietor of the Bunny Ranch, wherever HBO’s “Cathouse: The Series” was shot, owned different Nevada brothels. Odom acceptable disconnected that October for Hof’s Love Ranch successful Crystal, astir 80 miles extracurricular of Las Vegas.

“It was beauteous uncommon that a personage — surely anybody supra the D-list — would beryllium actively trying to travel retired to 1 of the brothels,” erstwhile Love Ranch manager Richard Hunter says successful the “Untold” episode. “This was benignant of a myth. This was thing Dennis perpetuated.”

But, Hunter said, “Lamar Odom really began contacting respective of the girls from the Love Ranch connected Instagram. ... Being a nonrecreational athlete, there’s a batch of easier ways to bash this than to thrust an hr extracurricular of the metropolis into the desert, locomotion into a brothel, specified arsenic it was, and privation to unrecorded determination for a fewer days.

“As the days progressed, I retrieve that him oregon 1 of his handlers ... really contacted the brothel and wanted a car to prime him up. So it decidedly became existent erstwhile helium gave america the code of wherever helium was at.” The operator called the Love Ranch and fto them cognize his rider truly was Odom. They enactment him successful a location down the brothel, Hunter said, wherever they enactment folks who were “spending capable money.”

Odom told USA Today successful an interrogation published Monday that what transpired astatine the Love Ranch — which was demolished successful November 2024, aft Hof’s 2018 decease — “was similar a hit. Obviously they missed. I don’t cognize if they privation to decorativeness the job.”

Hit oregon not, Odom infamously coiled up overdosing connected intoxicant and assorted drugs including over-the-counter erectile-dysfunction supplements. He says nary cocaine was involved.

Kardashian explains successful the occurrence that her divorcement from Odom came arsenic a effect of an ultimatum she was told to present during a planned intervention: a three-month rehab stint oregon a split. Odom amazed them, she said, erstwhile helium said that each helium wanted was his passport — and the divorce.

“I was like, looking astir like, ‘Wait. Wait. I — I don’t privation the divorce,’” she said. “‘You guys [who assembled for the intervention] told maine I person to accidental this.’”

Odom and Kardashian had signed their papers earlier the OD, but a justice hadn’t yet signed disconnected connected the dissolution, which allowed her to support him insured and, arsenic his woman and adjacent of kin, to marque decisions regarding his health. Kobe Bryant, Odom’s Lakers teammate and Kardashian’s adjacent friend, flew to Nevada to assistance her determine whether to proceed with country to hole Odom’s lung that had collapsed. She said yes, adjacent though determination was lone “like a 10% chance” that it would enactment and that helium would past the procedure.

Odom made it through, recovering astatine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Bryant died successful a chopper clang little than 5 years later.

After the OD, Kardashian ne'er near the hospital. She enactment their divorcement — finalized successful 2016 — connected hold. When Odom awakened from his coma, helium couldn’t power his bowels and needed six hours a time of dialysis, according to the documentary. “So you tin recognize the humility ... I’ve won 2 championships. I’m Lamar Odom. I can’t walk, can’t talk. And they travel successful to cheque my diaper.”

He was 35 astatine the time. The adjacent summer, helium was removed from a formation astatine LAX earlier takeoff portion drunk and vomiting, having been seen earlier slamming brew and whiskey successful the Delta Airlines lounge.

So what would Odom archer his younger self, if helium could, aft suffering a twelve strokes and six bosom attacks aft that sojourn to the Love Ranch?

“Stay distant from your weakness. And my weakness, obviously, was drugs due to the fact that I’m a cause addict,” helium told SI. “It could person been passed down to maine from my father. But I’m not blaming anybody. Makes nary consciousness to blasted anybody. On oregon disconnected the court, you person to enactment with what you’ve got. And I had an unthinkable stat enactment successful presumption of skills and however to play the game.

“And conscionable enactment connected being the champion subordinate that you tin be. Anybody who offers you that s—, drugs, whether it beryllium coke, pot, alcohol, they astir apt ain’t your friend. And to take my friends wisely, due to the fact that they could impact you connected oregon disconnected the court.”

Odom besides wasn’t definite wherefore Netflix had tapped him astatine this moment, but hopes that by telling his communicative helium mightiness assistance different radical who are trying to get retired of addiction.

“I was telling my woman connected the mode here, it’s similar swimming successful a cesspool of trauma,” helium told USA Today, mentioning a spouse who has not been identified. “And I’m trying to get retired of it, but the communicative reels maine backmost into that excavation each time. But I conscionable cognize I’m bigger than the situation, and I anticipation to assistance a batch of radical by giving my testimony. Not conscionable with the story, but conscionable successful life, that we tin each flooded addiction.”

That and, well, “Netflix had a bully paycheck, bro,” helium told SI with a laugh. “No, but it’s a clip and spot for everything. I don’t cognize what made maine applicable now.”