After cheating death 17 months ago inside a brothel in Las Vegas, Lamar Odom has since recovered from his overdose and remained sober. He even checked himself in a rehab facility in San Diego and completed their program last January. However, not a lot of information has been revealed about what exactly happened to him before he was seen unconscious back in October of 2015.
The former NBA Sixth Man of the Year recently broke his silence and shared, via Ian Drew of Us Weekly, how he ended up nearly dying on that fateful night.
“I was home by myself. Bored. I wanted to get out and have a good time. Looking back, I might have had a drink to get the mood started, but was I drunk or on drugs? Not at all. I remember lying in bed. Two women were in bed and then I fell asleep. That’s all. When I woke up four days later, I was trying to pull the tubes out of my mouth.”
Odom even admitted that he was trying to hide his addiction from his wife, Khloe Kardashian, and how she “tolerated” him to continue taking cocaine.
“I was hiding it for a while, but then I got frustrated and was like,' f–k it.' Around two years before we split up [in 2011], I was in the man cave she had made for me and she caught me. She was disappointed. So was I. The sad thing about it is, I don’t know if I was disappointed because I was actually doing the drug or because she caught me. She knew I was doing cocaine the whole time after that. It was my drug of choice. I’m not going to say she accepted it because that would be the wrong word. Tolerated would be a better word.”
The 37-year-old has turned his life around and is now living a clean life. He is proud of what he has become and said he feel great being drug-free.
“Of course. Living sober, meaning no drugs, is a great feeling. Being in the moment is important — how you react, respond, create. If I would have done coke last night, you would have gotten some dickhead here trying to get out of here fast. But you’re getting Lamar now.”
Once considered one of the better two-way players in the league, his career was cut short because of his lack of discipline and failure to stave off his vices. Odom hopes his story will serve as an inspiration to others to overcome their drug problems and try to get their lives back, just like him.
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