Nonetheless on his thoughts. Lamar Odom isn’t accomplished attempting to have a friendship with ex-wife Khloé Kardashian — however he isn’t prepared to inform her that in particular person.
“I might simply like to take Khloé out to dinner,” Odom, 43, says in Us Weekly’s unique sneak peek at TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs & Kardashians particular, which premieres on Monday, January 2.
Host Harvey Levin asks, “For what objective?” to which the previous basketball participant responds, “Being her good friend. That’s it.”
Odom explains that the explanation he hasn’t reached out to his former partner for a joint meal is that he’s “too shy.” He additional reveals: “And I’m a Scorpio and I hate being advised no and being denied. I’m afraid.”
Lamar Odom on the OxeFit Lounge Launch with Magic Johnson, December 2021 John Salangsang/Shutterstock
The New York native fell shortly for the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum, 38, in 2009. The pair tied the knot in September of that year after only one month of courting.
The fairy story romance, nevertheless, started to unravel in 2013 after 4 years of marriage — and they split that December.
“The habit had taken over their marriage,” a mutual good friend completely advised Us in August 2013 of Odom’s substance points. “The issue is cocaine. He could be excessive for 3 or 4 days at a time.”
Kardashian, nevertheless, paused the divorce in 2015 after Odom suffered a near-fatal overdose in October. On the time, the retired NBA player was hospitalized in Nevada and suffered a number of strokes after being discovered unconscious at a authorized brothel.
As soon as Odom was again on his toes in early 2016, the Robust Seems Higher Bare writer filed for divorce a second time. The previous Khloé & Lamar stars settled the proceedings in December 2016.
“After I got here out of the coma, she took care of me,” the previous Los Angeles Lakers star exclusively told Us in February of how Kardashian cared for him. “I’m speaking a few girl that wiped my bottom after I couldn’t do it myself. So, I’m keen on her for that. She had plenty of dignity and satisfaction in addition to I did.”
The Good American founder moved on romantically with Tristan Thompson, and the twosome welcomed daughter True, 4, in April 2018. Whereas the couple called it quits for good in 2021, they expanded their household in summer season 2022, welcoming a son by way of surrogate.
Odom, in the meantime, has been vocal over time about regretting how he and Kardashian ended issues.
“I by no means thought of getting married once more. I didn’t deal with that good girl proper,” the previous skilled athlete mentioned throughout a February 2022 episode Celebrity Big Brother, including that he hoped to get in contact with Khloé once more. “I want I used to be mature sufficient to deal with [marriage] proper, however I wasn’t. If given the chance once more, now I do know what to do. What to do and what to not do. Typically it’s onerous for me to sleep at evening eager about her.”
Seven months later, the basketball guru revealed that he watches The Kardashians — nevertheless it isn’t all the time simple to see his ex-wife’s ups and downs. “It was onerous for me to look at that,” Odom told E! News in September 2022, about tuning in for season 2. “It’s all the time going to be onerous for me to look at somebody I like a lot unhappy like that.”
Odom, in the meantime, plans to inform all of it in terms of his relationship with Kardashian and her household within the upcoming TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs & Kardashians documentary.
The “revealing” particular will take viewers “on a deep dive of Lamar Odom’s troubled marriage to Khloé Kardashian, which was as memorable as his unimaginable basketball profession,” according to the official synopsis.
The retired athlete will open up “like by no means earlier than about his intercourse habit and drug use and the way it torpedoed his marriage to the love of his life and turned him right into a shell of his former self,” per the outline.
TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Intercourse, Medicine & Kardashians premieres on Fox Monday, January 2, at 9 p.m. ET.
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