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Lamar Odom reveals crippling impact of brothel overdose four years on


Four years ago today, Lamar Odom was found slumped on the floor of a brothel in Nevada, clinging to life after a catastrophic drug overdose.

Heartbroken following his split from Khloe Kardashian and in the grips of cocaine addiction, he checked into the Love Ranch on Saturday, October 10, hoping for a weekend of ‘rest’.

Instead, he embarked on a four-day drugs binge that ended with him unconscious and convulsing on the floor with foam coming out of his mouth on Tuesday, October 13.

Lamar was struggling with his separation from Khloe at the time of the overdose

He checked into the Love Ranch for some ‘rest’

“The number of days that blended into nights that I’ve spent with a beautiful woman and a mound of drugs … My getaway weekend would be no different,” he wrote of that fateful weekend in his recent autobiography, Darkness to Light .

“On Tuesday morning, I lay on the floor in my room at the Ranch, dying. My body was convulsing. The women who kept me company screamed and called 911.”

He was taken to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas where doctors discovered the enormous extent of the damage and gave him just four hours to live.

“There was an unholy concoction of cocaine, cognac and cannabis coursing through my veins. My heart stopped twice,” Lamar explained.

Lamar Odom
Lamar was airlifted to Los Angeles from Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas

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Pregnant Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner flew to Vegas to visit an unconscious Lamar

“I had twelve seizures and six strokes. My lungs collapsed and my kidneys ruptured. I was on life support. Everyone I’d ever loved was looking at me through bleary eyes.”

Despite their estrangement, Khloe rushed to his side and halted divorce proceedings to allow her to make medical decisions on his behalf.

The reality star maintained a bedside vigil for three days, not even leaving to shower and sleeping on hospital chairs pushed together as her husband lay comatose.

Khloe was a constant support for Lamar throughout his three-month hospital stay

Khloe Kardashian speaks out about Lamar Odom
She thanked the hospital for saving his life

Lamar finally woke up on October 16 but was struck with horror when he realised he couldn’t walk or talk.

“Waking up, I was pulling the tubes out of my throat,” he told People magazine. “And I was trying to talk but I couldn’t get the words out. That was the scariest part. And not being able to walk. I’m a big athlete you know?”

He was eventually transferred to a hospital in Los Angeles, where he spent three months learning to walk again before heading to rehab.

And the effects of the strokes and heart seizures are still with him four years on.

With his balance and co-ordination shot, his NBA career was destroyed overnight.

His basketball career was destroyed

Lamar is gearing up to take part in Dancing With The Stars

“From the stroke, some of my balance is not the same, my equilibrium is not the same… I think that’s the coma and stroke and heart attack,” he told the New York Daily News.

Lamar – who is due to compete on Dancing With The Stars – also suffers “horrible memory loss” and has major issues with his long-term memory too.

However, he believes the life-changing damage is a fair trade for being alive.

“I think God made a deal with me. He said, ‘I’m going to give you life, but I’m going to take your basketball skills,'” he said.

“But I don’t mind working to get it back. It’s going to be a tedious process, but it’ll come back.”

Lamar first started taking cocaine at 24 but fell victim to the grips of addiction when his six-month-old son Jayden died in his crib from sudden infant death syndrome in 2006.

He continued to abuse narcotics after marrying Khloe in 2009, and admitted the lowest point in his life came when she caught him in a hotel room with another woman doing drugs.

Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom wedding, Los Angeles, America - Sep 2009
Khloe and Lamar at their wedding in 2009

“At that point in my life, I 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,” he told The Players’ Tribune.

“One of the darkest places I’ve ever been was when I was in a motel room, getting high with this chick, and my wife walked in.

“My d**k and my habit took me down all the roads that you don’t ever wanna go down.”





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