{"id":145120,"date":"2025-01-20T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/lamar-odom-recalls-1-drink-before-coma-thinks-he-was-slipped-drugs\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:45:38","slug":"lamar-odom-recalls-1-drink-before-coma-thinks-he-was-slipped-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/lamar-odom-recalls-1-drink-before-coma-thinks-he-was-slipped-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamar Odom Recalls 1 Drink Before Coma, Thinks He Was Slipped Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"124.46580188679\">\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3861701\" style=\"width: 300px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Lamar Odom.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Paras Griffin\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/lamar-odom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lamar Odom<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s 2015 coma is still a blur \u2014 and the former NBA player still doesn\u2019t know how one drink led to his hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do remember, but I don\u2019t really remember because I was in a coma,\u201d Odom, 45, said of his near-death experience during the Monday, January 20, episode of Australia\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/239-the-kyle-jackie-o-show-27242949\/episode\/lamar-odom-spills-details-on-259366074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Kyle &amp; Jackie O Show<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former Los Angeles Lakers star recalled heading to that \u201cdamn brothel\u201d in Nevada in October 2015 without drugs on his person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember being upset that I didn\u2019t have any cocaine to take to the brothel,\u201d Odom said, noting that he had \u201cjust signed the divorce papers\u201d after his split from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/khloe-kardashian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian<\/strong><\/a> so he planned to \u201cjust go all the way in\u201d that night at the brothel. (Kardashian, 40, initially filed for divorce in December 2013 after four years of marriage.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.27602905569\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lamar-odom-crashed-into-2-parked-cars-while-reaching-for-his-phone\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lamar-Odom-Car-Accident.jpg?crop=0px%2C102px%2C1877px%2C1060px&amp;resize=400%2C225\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Lamar Odom\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lamar-Odom-Car-Accident.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lamar-odom-crashed-into-2-parked-cars-while-reaching-for-his-phone\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Lamar Odom Crashed Into 2 Parked Cars While Reaching for His Phone<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTiffany Rose\/Getty Images for Harold &amp; Carole Pump Foundation Lamar Odom is safe after accidentally crashing into two parked cars in Los Angeles recently. The retired NBA star, 43, was driving his Merecedes-Benz around 3 a.m. on Monday, September 11, when he hit two parked cars in the Northridge area, TMZ reports. The Los Angeles [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once he arrived at the location, Odom remembered \u201cputting down a certain amount on my credit card to tell them, like, \u2018You know, let\u2019s keep this a secret.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After that, the athlete recalled \u201chaving a drink and then waking up three days later with it all over the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohost <strong>Kyle Sandilands<\/strong> was surprised by Odom\u2019s recount of the evening, asking, \u201cSo, there were no drugs?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:140.3%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium credit-added wp-image-3861702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Lamar Odom Remembers Coma 799\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lamar-Odom-Remembers-Coma-799.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Steve Granitz\/FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what they were able to slip into my drink,\u201d Odom replied, confirming that he doesn\u2019t remember taking any drugs on his own, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lamar-odom-opens-up-about-the-night-of-his-overdose-w456350\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when he came out of the coma<\/a>, he was told there were in fact drugs in his system that night.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cWhen I woke up, I couldn\u2019t walk or talk. It took some months of rehabilitation and a lot of prayers, a lot of determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Odom also had Kardashian by his side when he woke up. While the pair had just signed their divorce paperwork when Odom nearly died, it wasn\u2019t finalized. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/lamar-odom-teases-khloe-kardashian-reunion-on-the-kardashians-a-blessing-just-to-be-her-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Kardashians<\/em> star<\/a> withdrew the filing so she could make medical decisions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/lamar-odom-opens-up-about-khloes-support-after-coma-w490173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on his behalf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\" wp_automatic_readability=\"9.7226277372263\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/celebrities-who-have-been-linked-to-pink-cocaine-liam-payne-and-more\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Celebrities-Who-Have-Been-Linked-to-Pink-Cocaine-Liam-Payne-Diddy-and-Lamar-Odom-014-021.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Celebrities Who Have Been Linked to Pink Cocaine Liam Payne Diddy and Lamar Odom 014 021\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Celebrities-Who-Have-Been-Linked-to-Pink-Cocaine-Liam-Payne-Diddy-and-Lamar-Odom-014-021.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/celebrities-who-have-been-linked-to-pink-cocaine-liam-payne-and-more\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Celebrities Who Have Been Linked to Pink Cocaine: Liam Payne and More<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tLiam Payne isn\u2019t the first celebrity to be connected to pink cocaine. Following the former One Direction member\u2019s death in October 2024, a partial autopsy revealed that Payne had the substance in his system during his time of death, per ABC News. Us Weekly previously confirmed that Payne died at age 31 after falling from [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe was the first thing I saw. She said, \u2018Hi, Mookah.\u2019 \u2018Mookah\u2019 is a name my mother used to call me. She said it to let me know I wasn\u2019t dead,\u201d Odom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lamar-odom-breaks-his-silence-w473835\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusively told <em>Us Weekly<\/em><\/a> in March 2017, recalling the moment he woke up to Kardashian by his bedside. \u201cShe played a major role in me getting my memory back. She would bring pictures of my mother and my grandmother. I kept thinking, Am I paralyzed forever? Am I mute forever? It was scary s\u2014. Faith got me through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he and Kardashian eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/khloe-kardashian-lamar-odoms-divorce-almost-finalized-w455065\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divorced in December 2016<\/a>, Odom learned a lot during his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The retired basketball player said on Monday that he had \u201c12 strokes and six heart attacks when I was underneath, seeing all black,\u201d which ultimately led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lamar-odom-checks-himself-into-rehab-w455527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his healthier lifestyle choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\" wp_automatic_readability=\"15.269406392694\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/khloe-kardashian-lamar-odom-reunite-in-kardashians-season-6-trailer\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Watch-Khloe-Kardashian-and-Ex-Lamar-Odom-Reunite-in-Kardashians-Trailer-01-2025.jpg?crop=0px%2C23px%2C1331px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian Reunites With Lamar Odom in \u2018Kardashians\u2019 Season 6: 'I Don't Know This Person'\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Watch-Khloe-Kardashian-and-Ex-Lamar-Odom-Reunite-in-Kardashians-Trailer-01-2025.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/khloe-kardashian-lamar-odom-reunite-in-kardashians-season-6-trailer\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Watch Khloe Kardashian and Ex Lamar Odom Reunite in \u2018Kardashians\u2019 Trailer<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKhlo\u00e9 Kardashian and her ex-husband, Lamar Odom, will come face-to-face in an upcoming episode of The Kardashians. \u201cI honestly think timing is everything,\u201d Khlo\u00e9, 40, said in a confessional, which aired during a Friday, January 17, trailer for season 6 of the Hulu docuseries, before she asked sister Kim Kardashian and mom Kris Jenner who [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou have nothing to do after you\u2019ve beaten death,\u201d Odom continued, noting on the podcast that since his brush with death he has been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/lamar-odoms-ups-and-downs-through-the-years-khloe-drugs-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug-free<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He shared that his \u201cmission\u201d after surviving the overdose is to \u201chelp people who have the same problem, who couldn\u2019t help themselves\u201d to better understand addiction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>When it comes to his own life, Odom said he\u2019s \u201ccontent\u201d and \u201chappy\u201d to be living with his children.<\/p>\n<p>Odom\u2019s eldest child, son Jayden, died at 6 months old from sudden infant death syndrome. He welcomed Jayden with then-girlfriend <strong>Liza Morales<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/lamar-odom-recalls-6-month-old-son-jaydens-2006-death-from-sids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in December 2005<\/a>. The former couple also share daughter Destiny, 26, and son Lamar Jr., 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I\u2019m] seeing things differently and submitting to fatherhood,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/lamar-odom-recalls-1-drink-before-coma-thinks-he-was-slipped-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar Odom. Paras Griffin\/Getty Images Lamar Odom\u2019s 2015 coma is still a blur \u2014 and the former NBA player still doesn\u2019t know how one drink led to his hospitalization. \u201cI do remember, but I don\u2019t really remember because I was in a coma,\u201d Odom, 45, said of his near-death experience during the Monday, January 20, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}