Lamar Odom opened up about his battle with drug addiction, his marriage to Khloé Kardashian and his near-fatal overdose in “Done in the Dark,” a candid story he wrote for The Players’ Tribune.
“When I woke up in the hospital room in Nevada [in October 2015], I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk,” the retired NBA player, 37, wrote in the article, which was published on Thursday, July 27. “I 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.”
Khloe and Lamar’s Whirlwind Romance When Odom woke up in the hospital, he saw Kardashian, to whom he was married from 2009 to 2016. “My ex-wife was there in the room with me,” he recalled. “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.” The former athlete added that at that point in his life, he “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.” Quoting the late singer Rick James, Odom continued, “‘Cocaine is a hell of a drug.’ It’s a hell of a drug,” he wrote. “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?'”
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