Lamar Odom: I Was Doing Cocaine Every Day, I Couldn’t Control It.

Lamar Odom

Lamar Odom is opening up about both his infamous marriage to Khloé Kardashian , his drug battle addiction and his near-fatal overdose. Recounting the experience, the retired NBA player says,

When I woke up in the hospital room in Nevada [in October 2015], I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talkI was trapped inside my own body. My throat hurt like hell. I looked down and I had all these tubes coming out of my mouth. So I panicked.

He says that when he woke up in the hospital, Khloe, whom he was married from 2009 to 2016, was by his side.

My ex-wife was there in the room with me. After all the s–t I had done, I was surprised to see her. Honestly, that’s when I knew that I was probably in bad shape.

He continues,

was doing coke every day. Pretty much every second of free time that I had, I was doing coke. I couldn’t control it. I didn’t want to control it.

Odom quotes  the late singer Rick James, describing cocaine.

‘Cocaine is a hell of a drug.’ It’s a hell of a drug. It will make you do things you never thought you’d do. It will turn you into a different person. It will put you in situations where you say to yourself, ‘How the f–k did I get here?’

He also revealed that he didn’t try cocaine until he attended a party in Miami at the age of 24. Later, he became addicted.

Anybody who’s lived a complicated, drug-infused life like I’ve lived knows the cycle — with women, cheating on my wife, sh*t like that. Nights when I should have been asleep. Nights when I stayed up sniffing coke. Lot of those nights.

Lamar Odom, Khloe Kardashian

The Queens native also relives the moment when Khloe accidentally walked in on him doing cocaine with another woman in a motel room.

I’m a millionaire. I’d made it out of Jamaica, Queens, and won two NBA titles. And I’m in a motel, with some random person, doing coke. But I just wanted to get high with this girl, and I had no other place to go. I couldn’t take her home. You know, I was being a scumbag. Nothing else I got for that. No excuses. No bullshit. That’s just the truth. My d-ck and my habit took me down all the roads that you don’t ever wanna go down.

He concluded by saying that he knew that he was close to death.

I shook hands with death. But you know what? Ain’t no coming back from that. Even though my funeral would probably be a good funeral, and there’d probably be a lot of people who hadn’t seen each other in a long time. But it ain’t time for that yet.

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