I'm working here maybe just a couple of months,
and my boss says to me,
"Hey, the, uh, the art gallery exhibit that we have,
I'm taking all that out."
"I've got a new exhibit."
"You won't believe what I got."
Come in the room,
and he has reassembled the bed and the nightstands
and the mirrors from the room
that Lamar Odom OD'd on.
And this is the bed.
Odom to the basket! Jumper in the air. He's got it!
This is the location
of one of the most harrowing experiences of my life.
He's got, looks like white stuff coming out of his mouth.
They need to hurry, please.
And it somehow followed me from the Love Ranch
all the way to my next job at the Haunted Museum.
Bryant to Odom. Odom…
Oh! Throws it down!
This story is everywhere.
Everyone's buzzing about Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom.
Khloé Kardashian getting married to Lamar Odom
in this lavish star-studded wedding.
Odom goes behind the back! Are you kidding me?!
I'm afraid of death.
I'm afraid of, you know, not being here.
After headlines about possible drug and marital problems,
Odom has been arrested.
Could you imagine if Lamar passed away
and they had to put me in the ground?
Lamar Odom found unconscious at a brothel.
Multiple strokes, brain damage.
He has not woken up, and the condition is dire.
Like, I had twelve strokes and six heart attacks, dude.
Like, that's not no average shit.
Do you know who this is?
This is your son.
And we call him LJ.
I was dead for three days.
I made it, though.
Breathe through your nose.
Feel the inhale.
Let the breath out.
Feel your feet.
Relax your thigh.
Carry it up through your spine.
Feel the breath going in.
And now out.
That kind of thing.
When I've described the type of methods that I've used
over the past 25 years of coaching,
we used the term "one breath, one mind."
There's a certain sense that I want players to have
about what I consider is the correct way or an appropriate way to live life.
'Cause I think it's important for them to continue to grow as young men.
I usually say that it's transformational rather than transactional,
and meeting the individual where he's at.
The Lakers' offseason started with talks of a 70-plus-win season,
but now they have a recurring problem to tend to.
The on-again, now off-again relationship between Kobe and Shaquille O'Neal.
People wanted me to just level off my play.
I'm not gonna do that.
I wanted to be a team player.
If the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded.
Kobe said, "It doesn't matter whose team."
"No coming into camp fat and out of shape."
Kobe wants to win rings without Shaquille O'Neal.
In 2004, Shaq felt he was betrayed a little bit,
and the decision was made to stand behind Kobe
and make him a long-term part of the Laker organization.
The major headline around the league tonight,
the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat have agreed to a trade
that will send Shaquille O'Neal, one of the greatest big men of all time,
to sunny South Florida.
So Shaq left, Kobe was there,
and Lamar came in the trade.
They traded Shaquille O'Neal to Miami for three players
who will give LA's roster a very different look.
There are big changes that are on this team,
and there's some unknowns.
You know, we have a lot of young players who,
you know, have something to prove, and I'm excited.
From Rhode Island, Lamar Odom.
It's crazy 'cause I was a Clipper before that.
Sends it to Odom. Odom baseline once again.
So I was always, like,
like, "Damn, it look good over there."
You know, obviously from coming from the Clippers to the Heat,
then back to the Lakers was a dream come true.
With Lamar, there are things that we kind of accommodated
to kind of settle in.
He had one incident, a suspension by the Los Angeles Clippers.
I'm, you know, disappointed in myself
for not handling myself correctly.
Substance abuse, or whatever they called it.
And then had been subsequently traded from them to Miami.
It's my new crew, my new crew.
He was a player that wasn't used to the discipline
of format or intensive training.
One to two, start line drill.
But you could see that his greatness was also there.
Let's see if they can cash in.
This could be Lamar Odom.
How about that!
And then really his teammates supported him.
You know, there's community, and Lamar really likes teams.
It's his family.
Homerooms were by last name, alphabetical order.
So I'm M, he's O. So we met, like, pretty much first day.
I would see him in the back of the bus. That's where the cool kids hung out.
But when I wouldn't see him in the bus,
it's because he'd show up after homeroom bell,
sometimes putting on his tie.
He's half dressed, brushing his teeth.
He was always on his own time.
I was seeing somebody that he knew too.
And I remember I was, like, crying in homeroom.
And Lamar was like, "Don't cry over him. You need to give me a chance."
He always had charisma.
Back then I didn't know it was charisma.
Everybody was just always drawn to him.
I wasn't unique.
He knew how to…
Pretty much, he knew how to charm. I'll just say that.
And these are plaques from his Brooklyn Diocese
and basketball division.
Now this is his high school picture at Christ the King.
Here he is right there.
We came to Queens in 1957.
I was 4, and Cathy was 2 weeks old.
She had conceived Lamar when she was 22.
And when she had Lamar, she was gonna name him Lamont.
And I said, "Cathy, that's a sissy name. Name him Lamar."
So she let me name him Lamar.
This is Lamar up here.
And godsons, my nephew Sherrod.
Lamar's father was Joe.
They had a big wedding.
It was a big wedding.
And then after a while it was estranged, an estranged marriage.
My father was a… He gave into…
He gave into, you know, into drugs.
That's why my mother left him. He didn't wanna stop.
I'd see him maybe, like, once a month, he'd come through,
give me some money or whatever and… and leave.
But my mom was a real cool, down-to-earth woman.
She was pretty, and she was tall.
And I remember my mother getting sick.
We were coming from the Poconos,
and she was complaining her stomach was hurting.
Our first trip in between going to the hospital and coming back
was like two different people, she lost so much weight.
So they had diagnosed her in January, and she was gone…
Two days after it was Fourth of July, so July 6th.
She was gone.
I wanna honor my sister Cathy.
She passed away when Lamar was 10.
And this is us at a party.
You know, I put this here 'cause she's my angel.
I just took the basketball and went to the park.
Stayed out all night and shot the rock.
You know, basketball. Always knew it was gonna be my way.
When he started playing the ninth grade,
he was like 5'10".
Came back, he shot up to 6'7".
And then he shot up after that.
This guy, Lamar Odom, with the basketball, at 6'9",
is considered by many people to be the best of the high school class of 1997.
At Christ the King, I won the city championship.
I had like 35 points.
So I kind of knew about attention.
I didn't know, you know, how and how much I was gonna get.
He was becoming, like, more known
and getting in headlines and stuff like that.
He ended up going to Rhode Island for college.
It was only a few hours away, like four hours' drive.
And so he would come to Queens to hang out with his friends.
He would see me.
It was one of those visits that he came down to Queens and, boop!
I ended up getting pregnant with Destiny.
To the lane. Lamar says, "Get that stuff outta here!"
And so we had our own little family unit, you know?
Mind you, we're, like, 19, 20 years old. We're babies ourselves.
But he wasn't that ever-present father because he couldn't be.
Thirty feet away. Jumper in the air.
He's got it!
Lamar Odom has won it for Rhode Island!
Obviously, his goal was to go to the league.
So I feel there was a lot of distractions, a lot of people.
He would introduce me to people, and I would be like, "Hi."
What am I gonna do?
That actually happened at our daughter's baptism as well.
Somebody shook my hand, and Lamar wanted him to be the godfather of Destiny.
I had never met the man.
There's a lot at stake for the star sophomore.
He could possibly be the top draft pick in the country.
We were all there at the draft.
My mother, my cousin, Brenda,
my sister, Sandy, was there,
Michael's wife, my brother's wife, Wanda.
Good evening, and welcome to the 1999 NBA Draft.
My cousin, Gerald, my cousin, Lisa, the boys.
We got the boys that used to live in the Bronx, "the Ohio boys."
With the fourth pick in the 1999 NBA Draft,
the Los Angeles Clippers select…
You know what he told me? "Any team but the Clippers."
Lamar Odom from the University of Rhode Island.
I remember I didn't want him to go to LA.
I just knew, like, Hollywood, LA, like, hot mess.
Like, you lose your soul.
When they ended up coming back from the draft, we were on my stoop,
and he was like, "You need to come with me to LA."
"I need my family. I want you and Destiny with me."
And I was like, "We're a family."
"And if he's telling me he wants me to go, I'm gonna go."
We got a place in Marina del Rey.
I remember I flew out with his aunt JaNean and Destiny.
You know, when they moved to LA and they had the penthouse,
I came out there, and I saw how things was going.
I said, "We gotta go shopping."
That was like, my first time seeing people who were in the public eye.
I was like, "These are people I see on TV."
Lamar was always gone.
He had press, all these things that I had to learn really quickly
that this was gonna be his schedule.
So I do feel like he was getting more busy and more stress.
And then our son, LJ, is born.
So it was a lot in our family, like, timeline.
To Odom. Slam dunk!
Lamar did really well with the Clippers.
And to Lamar.
The lob. The jam! What a…
But at the time, nobody stayed with the Clippers.
And so he knew he wanted to leave. And he ended up going to Miami.
Coast to coast, it counts!
Got traded for Shaq.
And then I got pregnant.
Jayden was…
He was just so curious.
He had big eyes,
and he would look around the room.
I remember I was just exhausted
because he'd be up every two, two and a half hours.
I did think he'd be my last child.
And I remember saying to myself, "Appreciate this,"
because something was telling me to enjoy that moment.
We went to New York for a funeral for Lamar's aunt.
And we had a home on the border of Long Island and Queens.
And I remember oversleeping.
And I remember, like, "I didn't hear Jayden wake me up."
And my mom was making breakfast for the kids or something.
And I was like, "I just… Can you believe Jayden's still sleeping?"
"Can you believe that?" She was like, "Really?"
"He's okay, right?" I was like, "Yeah."
So we just went upstairs.
And I just remember, like, turning him over, and his lips were blue.
And, uh…
Yeah, like… And my mother, I just remember my mother just screaming,
"Call 911. Call 911."
I just saw the firemen just grab him up like a football
and…
just ran to the… …uh…
ambulance.
Get to the hospital.
And I just remember, like, a woman doctor.
And she was just like, "I'm so sorry."
She was like, "I'm so sorry."
And she was just like,
"We tried everything."
And she was like, "I'm so sorry."
At that point, Lamar--
He got to the hospital, and they showed him where to go,
where the room I was in and…
um…
I mean, he was just so cold.
And…
I just knew, like…
it was just a shell.
Hmmm…
Um…
Sudden infant death syndrome.
So…
um…
when you get the death certificate, it just says…
not "undisclosed," not "undescribed."
They give you a "un" word that doesn't really answer any questions.
I didn't really cry too much when he passed away.
And then to think about the night he passed away,
I was out all night partying
with my man.
And then the baby just looked like he's asleep.
No scars, no hemorrhages, no nothing.
I remember when me and my cousin Sherrod went to go identify his body
the next day.
Just looked asleep.
Well, they say that people that go through that,
it either brings 'em together and makes them extremely strong,
or it brings them apart.
It was the summer,
and Lamar always went back to get ready for the game.
And…
this time was different.
Um…
I didn't wanna go back.
Um…
And I told him that.
I gotta go back to work.
I can't… You know what I mean?
If you wanna stay here and you stay in New York…
She stayed in New York,
but move from the place where he passed away from.
And, uh…
that was that.
I just probably just knew my place. I mean, what else am I gonna do?
I don't expect people to pity me.
You know, it happens.
It's just…
Hey, man, it's just something that's gonna make me a much stronger individual.
There's been points in my life where maybe,
I don't know if basketball is gonna make me feel better, you know?
My son dying was one of those times.
We've all been through some shit.
You know, us being here and then us not being here is just, like…
You know, who the fuck knows?
I don't care who your god is.
Allah, Jehovah,
um,
Christ,
Kobe.
But, um, you will have to give yourself up to something.
-Hey, good morning. -Paul Hunter's following him today.
-Good morning, Paul. -A pleasure.
Good morning, fans. How y'all doing today?
I'm a little bit, you know, wakey-wakey, but I'm up.
Hanging out in LA, my agent, David Bowman said,
"The Lakers wanna speak to you. They wanna sign you."
I'm like, "What?"
I just couldn't believe it.
Ron Artest joining the Lake show.
Two years ago, he told Kobe Bryant he wanted to help him win a championship.
And now that day has finally arrived.
I wanted to be a part of the Lakers for a long time.
And then you throw Phil Jackson in the mix.
Who would pass on the opportunity?
Being a Laker is way different.
You know, it's Hollywood, so you're definitely performing for the stars.
Let's see, where's TMZ?
They're not here?
I think the key to LA is, like,
if you're going to be here, you might as well level up.
If you use it the right way, I think it can help you.
"Lamar" means "famous throughout the land."
That's one of the meanings of the name.
You know, me being who I was at the time,
I wasn't an extra super, super-duper star yet.
I still had to cross that path of trying to be A-lister.
I found the invite last night when I was doing research.
Let me show you this.
Don't wanna give me my shine.
That's the Welcome to LA party.
Is Khloé on there?
No, I don't think so.
That's a horrible flyer. You see that?
So I had a "Welcome to LA" party.
And then I was trying to see who could I get to host my party with me.
And Khloé was nice enough to accept.
So we paid her $5,000 at the time.
Sorry, Khloé. I know your price is way higher now.
I'm not exactly sure how I got that gig because I…
never really knew a lot about basketball.
My brother was so excited.
So I took the job,
or I agreed to do it, really, for my brother.
She was there. I didn't even know who she…
Honest to God, I didn't know who she was.
It's called Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Hi, I'm Khloé. My sisters say I'm a bitch.
Who ******* cares? Shut up, everyone.
Prior to this party, I did not know who Lamar was.
I remember he had a plastic bag.
And I was like, "What's in your bag?"
And he's like, "Candy."
And I'm like, "You're such a liar."
I'd made up this whole thing. "You probably have condoms in that bag."
And I'm like, "Let me see what's in the bag."
And I remember he poured it out, and it was all candy and only candy.
And I felt so stupid.
You know, the first night, I'll be honest, I was trying to fuck her.
She's like, "Ain't that type of party."
Got with her the next day, and then the next day turned into the next day.
-Khloé. -You're excited.
Would you marry me?
Oh, my God.
As much as I can say I know her or, you know, I knew her,
but I don't really know the person in 30 days.
That's what I'm saying.
It's crazy. You gotta have a gut feeling. Like a big dick, some big balls.
Which will last longer?
The marriage of Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom or…
…this pumpkin?
I do like to consider myself pretty levelheaded.
I really do.
But the cynicism of people judging
and, "Is this a real relationship or is it not?"
I totally understood.
I mean, we were getting married in 30 days.
So that is insane.
Is Lamar Odom making the biggest mistake any Laker has ever made?
Let's go to you.
I can't remember what tabloid, but for our wedding,
someone wanted the exclusive.
And then they said, "We want the exclusive of the wedding."
"But if we do that, can we also get the exclusive of the divorce?"
Kobe gonna be best man, or what?
You're getting married tomorrow!
First, I think he texted me like,
"Oh, I'm getting married." I really thought he was joking.
I said, "My God, come on now. That's too soon."
I said, "Things like that don't work out."
Falling in love the way we fell in love,
as quickly as we did is so not my personality.
But he's so charismatic.
He's fun and silly.
And then he also is a very vulnerable person.
He's very honest about his life and what has transpired in his life.
My mom couldn't help wanting to, like, nurture and coddle and care for him.
People try to, you know, steer me away or, you know what I mean?
Like my babies' mother didn't let them come to my wedding.
My own kids didn't come to my wedding.
I never even met her.
I don't think he told me he was marrying her.
I just didn't wanna be a show pony or anything like that.
If you wanna get married in front of, like, a hundred people
and all these cameras, that's totally cool, and it's on you.
Of course, when you decide to get married to somebody in 30 days,
it's gonna hurt.
And then on top of it, let me stick it to you a bit more,
it's gonna be on television.
Yeah, I went to the wedding. It was unusual. It was a Hollywood thing.
Yeah, Luke!
I kind of felt sorry for Lamar to maybe have to keep up with that.
Ron, any final words?
I'd known Lamar longer than everybody here.
And I'm in, like, the back table? You know what I mean?
So me and Lamar still have things to talk about.
He didn't invite none of us.
Okay, hold on. None of us.
Oh, uh, Pumpkin was there.
I knew Lamar as a friend since he was 9 years old.
I'm five years older.
So I was like a big brother that he didn't have.
So I wound up going to the wedding that night.
He came and talked to me for two hours.
He was explaining, like, the moves that he's doing.
He was doing it to try to better his future.
Now I'm already Lamar Odom,
and I'm just watching how she live and their lifestyle.
I'm like, "I know this is where I wanna be."
Like, "This is how I wanna live."
They know mad people. They got mad connections.
And then 75, 80% of the guests was 60 to 70 year old.
So I'm sitting there saying, "Where is this coming from?"
I think he did it because he probably thought I would say,
"I wanna say something."
Yeah, I think that was like a power trip for me
'cause you took the power that I had,
and then Kardashian power.
When you add 'em…
Because of your desire to build a marriage for the ages,
from this day forward, you are husband and wife.
But I wasn't really ready for all that power.
Lamar loves a camera.
I remember I had a photo shoot, and I remember saying,
"We can hang out, but then you have to leave
'cause the camera crew's coming, and we're gonna film a little bit later."
He was like, "Why do I have to leave?"
Someone was a genius. Reality TV, whoever brought that up…
Trickery, foolery.
Henry Long Neck.
Lamar!
Khloé & Lamar was not my idea.
Khloé & Lamar was led very much by Lamar.
Take me to the casbah.
I don't know what that means when you say it.
I was spread really thin.
I also didn't really want it to jeopardize the family brand,
which was Keeping Up at the time.
I thought there was so many Kardashian shows.
And I reminded him about his main career, uh, the Lakers,
and just said, "Are you sure you wanna do it?"
**** Queens, this is California. In California, we push people.
Oh, she is on one today.
We wound up having our own show,
and it came on Sundays,
which was right after the Laker game.
I was on TV twice every Sunday.
-Wait, Lamar. This is very uncomfortable. -I'm sorry.
Like, he did love Khloé, but he'd wanted to be on reality TV for a long time.
What the ****?
Well, part of the deal was that, "If I'm gonna marry you, fuck it."
"I want in too."
I like that.
Let's go, CK!
He wanted a different life outside of basketball.
Try it again.
Back-to-back threes, Lamar Odom.
The gag is, I used to watch The Kardashians.
-We should have a picnic one day. -Oh, let's. It'll be so romantical.
With my family show, I bounce around to different homes,
and it's not under a microscope.
So I was a little concerned about a reality show
that was gonna be in our home all the time.
But I wanted to do what made him happy, and he was so excited about it.
I can tell the difference of an NBA fan or someone that knows me as Lammy.
Mr. Lammy.
They used to call me on the show, which is kind of cool, but it's weird.
-One! -Kiss!
-Go on! -Just one!
And then honestly, if I'm gonna be honest, when he was married to Khloé,
I looked forward to Christmas 'cause I was like,
"Kris and Khloé are gonna give me good presents."
Hey, Khloé!
When Odom plays his best, they're almost unbeatable.
Bryant to Odom. Odom…
Throws it down! And a foul.
Lamar!
The Laker games at this era, it was the center of the universe.
Goes behind the back! Are you kidding me?!
All of LA was at these games.
Odom, a drive. Pretty move, Lamar Odom.
Stepping in rhythm, knocking down Js.
The Lamar Odom show.
I'm like, okay, last year, I have no idea what even dribbling a basketball meant.
Introducing a one-of-a-kind unisex fragrance,
Unbreakable, by Khloé and Lamar.
I mean, it was the coolest, coolest time in my life, it really was.
I could definitely see a switch in my lifestyle.
You're talking about if a red carpet is rolled out for you as an individual,
now we get the satin carpet.
Happy birthday to you
I think they helped me kind of step into who I am a little bit more.
You’re on more commercials than Tiger,
and I do believe…
Wait, and I believe you also have a better marriage.
We're both living the rock star kind of lifestyle.
I think we drove Kobe crazy, by the way.
I'm rapping, Lamar's doing reality shows,
but we came to practice.
Breathe through your nose.
Let the breath out.
I was, like, I won't say oblivious to it, but like,
no, we have too strong a bond here.
We're quiet in here. We're kind of centered in here.
This is stronger than that outside noise is.
And it worked.
Odom to Gasol, back to Odom.
Up and under, and nice! They're in.
Lamar Odom emerging with big plays here in the second half.
The Los Angeles Lakers are world champions of basketball.
We're an hour away from the beginning of the parade
as it commences at Staples Center and winds its way down Figueroa.
I remember when he won the first championship.
We wanted to go to the parade and celebrate that moment with him,
and be a part of it.
The parade route, that is lined with exuberant Laker fans,
and we've got it all for you live throughout the entire morning.
They missed school that day. They told me, they told their classmates,
"We won't be here tomorrow. We're going to the parade."
They drove to Manhattan Beach, to Lamar's place.
They called me, "He's not answering, but I know he's in there."
We were knocking on the door, and there was nothing.
It was just silence.
Kobe Bean Bryant and family.
There he is and a huge ovation.
What a day for LA, though.
One of his friends ended up calling and saying,
"Look, Lamar's here, but like, you know, he partied last night
and, like, he doesn't want the kids to see him like this."
"He's not going to the parade."
We ended up watching it on TV.
And, um, his trainer at the time got his butt up, and they were like,
"Go to the parade. You cannot not show."
LO, as we take a look at Lamar Odom coming onto the bus.
And just wanting to win a championship and get that stigma off of his back.
What a great year for LO.
He was on the float with his trainer,
and my kids were watching, like,
"Wow, he ended up going."
And it was just, yeah, they were so devastated.
Um, it was terrible.
Lamar, man, first of all, how was that ride down here?
-What's the scene look like to you? -Amazing. Incredible.
Never thought this day would come. It's beautiful.
We always talk about good people, hearts of gold.
No one is better than LO, Lamar Odom.
Rejection from a parent is…
It's extremely hard and hurtful,
and it definitely pains your development growing up.
There's some moments that, like, you never forget.
Well, now I know that, like, he was partying and using.
That first hit of cocaine that I took was
amazing.
I was with a woman, she was with her husband.
It was in Miami.
You know what I mean?
Do I regret it? I mean, fuck yeah.
Yeah, some people regret some of their best moments in life.
I mean, it was a high--
I know cocaine is not the way to go, but it's a high that feels so good.
You wish you can capture it and put it in a bottle so you can take it…
So you can have it the next day.
But it don't work like that with drugs.
But then you're at the age too where if I use cocaine for a month straight
and then I stop and then, you know, work out and eat,
I can get my physique back.
Well, he's a team player. Extremely unselfish.
And I think that's a true mark of a champion.
He's the best sixth man in the league, and beyond well deserving of the award.
To my family, my wife, my mother-in-law,
and, you know, my teammates,
it's been a long time coming.
You know what I'm saying? I've learned so much
from, you know, the dudes in my locker room.
I'm blessed.
And, uh, you know,
there's a couple of people here I wish that was here to see it, you know?
But…
I just wanna let y'all know I'm thankful, man.
At the beginning, it was a recreational party use, sure.
But it just, it seemed, as silly as this sounds,
it seemed responsibly done.
And I think it was two years in,
around June, he disappeared.
I really thought maybe something happened to him.
I remember calling anyone and everyone trying to find him.
When he did come home, he…
I don't wanna say blamed a lot,
but his reasoning for why this happened was because of Jayden's passing,
and June is so hard for him.
And that was the first time I was like,
"Okay, this is something I've never experienced."
"This is a dark situation, and I don't know what to do."
There was the championship parade,
where you and the kids all were gonna go together,
but then you wound up going alone.
Do you remember that?
I can't say I do.
But, you know, when you're on drugs, there's always gonna be embarrassment.
Especially when you're caught in your addiction.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more stories that I can't remember
because of where I was at, at that time in my life.
A lot of people do drugs and they have the best
15-minute high of their life,
and they can wait to do it next Friday or a week after they did it.
And some people, you do it,
you unlock a vault that you can't really control.
I think this is where he felt his dark side started to come.
He lost track of what reality was in life.
But he's in this bubble with this thing.
-Come on. -They love you.
Khloé! Talk to TMZ!
I remember even in high school,
first report card, ninth-grade year,
I failed four classes.
And there wasn't a, um…
…like a repercussion.
And it didn't get no better.
I don't know, like, when I think about it, like cheating on my wife.
Like, how sick would your brain have to be if-- You know who you are.
What the fuck would make you think you would marry this woman on TV
and then go have affairs?
-They all keep hatin'. -Unbreakable.
-I'ma keep makin'. -Makin'.
And, uh…
Khloé's outta town.
I guess I still be on the DL.
He had said to me one time,
"I'll be partying with people that could party for six months
then go to work."
And I'm sitting there saying, "What crowd you around now?"
I can remember one night going to Big Bear,
and I'm getting high outta my fucking mind.
The girl that I was with at the time,
she must've been so blown back by it
that she must've took my phone and contacted my wife.
I'm calling him again. He's missing. I can't find him.
And then out of the blue, I get this call, and I'm like, "Hello."
And she's like, "Hi, I've been fucking your husband."
"He is so fucked up,
and he just keeps wanting money and drugs."
"And I gotta get off this ride. So will you come and pick him up?"
"I called your mom a bit ago because I didn't know if I should call you."
I never knew for sure that he was sleeping with other people.
Of course, I had suspicions, but I never had anything tangible.
I can remember me taking a big line of cocaine.
And all I hear is,
"Lammy!" And I see Kris Jenner's face
come around the, um…
…the doorway.
It became, um, craziest when,
like, the word out in the streets hit, like,
"Lamar's a cokehead," or "He does coke."
It became a nuisance when they wanted to find me doing something
I wasn't supposed to do.
-You don't have a problem? -No.
No?
-No. -You need professional help?
-No. -Okay.
Have you spoken to Khloé?
Of course! That's my wife.
All right. So you've spoken to her?
Of course.
If you could go back, and you had the timeline
of these dates and important events in his life,
and you go all the way back, he had no foundation.
And then you get married and all the pressure of it,
and then you're on a championship team, and you can't keep up a facade anymore.
It's all gonna crash.
Don't antagonize me. You just told him, don't run me over.
Now you're trying to antagonize me.
You wonder where your dad is. Where is he at? What is he doing?
Obviously, I miss him.
You know, I wanna see him. But, you know, he wasn't there.
All these things were happening.
The drug buildup was getting worse and worse.
And then there were many times Lamar would go for 12 hours or two days
and escape rehab, go on a drug bender,
and no one could find him and whatever.
I was either looking for him in alleys, looking for him in motels.
He would have tinfoil cutouts or spoons, and freebasing things,
and leaving things everywhere.
I remember needing to go to hotel rooms to clean up after him,
so the housekeeping didn't sell a story.
I was such an enabler without knowing I was an enabler.
But I just felt such a responsibility to cover this up,
hold it together, and protect him.
Being an addict to sex or drugs, it don't have no race, color, or creed.
What's done in the dark comes out in the light.
Another thing my grandmother always told me.
What happened?
I don't believe in what y'all do.
Feel what I'm saying? I don't believe in following people around.
Me and that girl fell in love.
If we wanna give you it, if we wanna let you in our house,
we can let you in.
And ****, we can kick you out at the same time.
When I really discovered that there was a problem, he was like,
"You cannot tell anyone. I'll lose it all."
"If I lose it, where are we gonna live? What are we gonna do?"
And at the time, I was 24.
I'm still trying to figure out my life.
I had the show, but we weren't, like, making money like that.
I remember just keeping all these secrets and feeling horrible about myself.
I think youth had a lot to play with it.
My first real love.
And then you just feel for this person,
and then you sorta rationalize,
"Well, this person died, and this person, and my dad's a heroin addict."
"Of course you're like this."
"Now let me try to fix you and show you, if I love you enough,
I'm gonna make you better."
But I was fighting every single day,
either to protect him, to not let him get caught,
which sounds insane,
to make sure his image, how he looked,
how he presented himself to the outwardly world
was still that Lamar Odom.
I didn't sleep for years.
I had an enormous amount of power in the city.
My wife was just as popular as I was.
I was the shit.
Then everything just changed.
I remember he was driving to the Laker facility to go to practice,
and he was listening to the radio.
Lamar, it's being reported that you're about to be traded to Dallas.
He was like, "How does the radio know?"
"I've given you guys so much,
and I'm finding out this way that I'm being just traded somewhere else?"
It sort of started spiraling a lot from there.
I would think that I wouldn't be treated like a number.
I thought I was gonna be here the rest of, you know, my whole life.
And I don't know, I think maybe I rubbed people the wrong way.
Maybe with doing the show.
I found my wife in LA, my family.
LA is a part of me.
It's still hard to see one of my friends,
and one of our great players,
go somewhere seemingly for nothing.
Whether they have something else going on,
you know, that's on them to decide, but it's tough, man.
It's tough.
First time basketball's felt like a job.
Like, you know what I mean?
The drug use that transpired from the Dallas trade was monstrous.
When you learned that the Lakers had traded you,
what was your immediate thought then?
I was surprised.
Um…
I was surprised just because I didn't hear anything.
But, um, I mean, I couldn't have landed in a more…
You know, in a, in a…
Just in a great situation.
I've just never seen so many drugs in such a dark spot.
Just such a dark aura around us.
They weren't testing for certain painkillers,
and he knew which ones they weren't,
and he was freebasing painkillers.
Right before Christmas, because I remember I had a gingerbread house.
I tried to make it so cute in this hotel.
He was locked in the hotel bathroom for maybe four days just doing drugs.
Has no concept of time. Miserable.
He would, I think, maybe leave to go and do a practice or whatever.
He was horrible because he was so fucked up and high.
This year was a very tough year. We--
So the cameras did not affect the career?
-No. -No.
He got, I will say, kicked off of the Mavs.
We were only there for a few months.
I come back, I'm signed with the Clippers,
but now I weigh like 300 pounds.
That was the most embarrassing time of my career,
because I was using drugs.
Drugs so heavily I had to check myself into rehab.
There are reports that Lamar Odom is in a Los Angeles hotel,
where friends are trying to get him help for an unspecified drug problem.
Whenever the Clippers season ended, he spiraled again and did crazy drugs.
How do you go from Sixth Man of the Year to averaging six points a game?
I say, "'Cause he don't wanna be there. He's miserable."
He overdosed a few times. I had to pump his stomach.
All privately get him to… We had at-home detox centers.
We did everything we could.
Are the rumors true that you're addicted to crack cocaine?
-That's my camera! -Shut up.
What about Lamar?
Do you know he's been on drugs, or is this news?
Have a good day, guys.
Last year on my birthday, I lied to everyone
because I had to lie and say I was with my husband
when in fact my husband was missing with another girl!
I was advised to do this intervention.
And the interventionist said,
"You're gonna go in there and tell him, 'You need to go to rehab,
and if you don't stay for a three-month program,'
you're gonna say you're getting a divorce."
Everyone around me was like, "He'll never say he wants the divorce."
We do the intervention.
I give my
speech.
And he was like, "Okay, all I want is my passport,
and, yeah, let's get the fucking divorce."
I was, like, looking around like,
"Wait. Wait."
"I… I don't want the divorce."
"You guys told me I have to say this."
Lamar left immediately, was like,
"We're getting the fucking divorce, and I'm never coming back here again."
I signed the divorce papers.
And so right when I signed the divorce papers, I'm like…
"I'm gonna get it in."
The Bunny Ranch I used to always see on TV,
but I don't have any coke to take.
Fuck.
Crazy when you think about one decision so big or so minor,
um, could be so pivotal
to you and to the people that you really love.
So you can see how long it took for us to drive out here
and how far this actually is.
I haven't been out here in years, uh,
and I don't even know what we're gonna find.
But you can see why we probably questioned initially
whether or not this was really Lamar Odom
that was contacting these girls to, um, come out here,
given how far removed it is.
We just crossed a cattle guard, if that tells you anything.
I'm from Fort Worth, Texas, originally.
Worked in radio there for a number of years.
And that's actually how I came to work at the brothel.
Uh, Dennis Hof was a regular guest on my radio show.
Let's welcome back to the show for the 138,000th time,
ladies and gentlemen, Dennis Hof.
Dennis, what's going on?
Good afternoon, Big Dick. I am so excited.
He was the Sam Walton of brothels.
He was trying to corner the market on legal prostitution.
I'm buying every brothel I can and wanna turn it into a public company,
and it's gonna be a great, successful public company.
Everybody knows the Bunny Ranch,
where the HBO Cathouse series was filmed.
But he had bought another, I think, three up north.
But then down here in Southern Nevada,
a couple had come up for sale as well, and he bought the Love Ranch.
-What's up? -Having a good time?
Oh man…
Sex, it's everywhere, man. It's in the air.
It would tell you a lot of what you needed to know about Dennis
to know that he was a former time-share condo salesman.
He brought a lot of that.
Sometimes, the travel is as good as the destination.
The saying is that sex is like a joke. Some get it, some don't.
The ones that don't, come here.
As the years progressed, and his brand got bigger,
he needed somebody to manage his media.
And that is really what brought me out here to work with Dennis full-time.
Okay, here we are. It's the old sign.
And, uh…
Guess what? The whole thing's been torn down.
Wow.
Well, I can show you where it was.
There's a lot of misnomers about how legal prostitution works in Nevada.
The biggest one is that people think
prostitution is legal everywhere in Nevada.
It's not.
There are some 43 legal brothels in Nevada.
However, none of them in Reno or Las Vegas,
where pandering is definitely illegal.
It is only legal in counties
that have below 300 or 400,000 people.
That's why to get to a legal brothel,
you have to drive an hour outside of Las Vegas.
At least here you don't go through all the marriage problems.
What you're gonna find is various levels of quality.
There are some nicer places.
This is the kitchen. This is the bar.
And this is the orgy room.
There are also some brothels
that really aren't anything more than a single-wide trailer
out in the middle of nowhere
you wouldn't want to set foot in.
The Love Ranch was a series of fabricated homes
that were linked together.
So this was not the lap of luxury.
This was the walkway that we just came up.
This would've been, like, the patio. And then the front door was right here.
-Hello! -Hey, it's Lola Marks.
-Hello. -And Amber, smokin' Amber.
-How are you guys today? -We're doing good.
This whole area was a bar.
There was another door you would come in here.
And here's the bar.
And then everything out here would've been all the modular units
connected to each other.
I was having breakfast with Larry Flynt and Jimmy Flynt one morning.
Dennis himself, his worth was,
"Are you a celebrity?"
"Are you acknowledging me?" And, "How famous are you?"
But it was pretty rare
that a celebrity,
certainly anybody above the D-list,
would be actively trying to come out
to one of the brothels.
This was kind of a myth. This was something Dennis perpetuated.
I've invited President Obama
to come to the Bunny Ranch in a friendly environment.
But I don't know that this has been talked about a lot, or maybe even ever,
that Lamar Odom actually began contacting several of the girls,
uh, from the Love Ranch on Instagram.
And, you know, it was one of those things where, yeah, I heard it,
but you don't know if these things are really real.
Being a professional athlete, there's a lot of easier ways to do this,
uh, than to drive an hour outside of the city into the desert,
walk into a brothel such as it was,
and wanna live there for a few days, essentially.
As the days progressed,
I remember that him or one of his handlers
or someone actually contacted the brothel and wanted a car to pick him up.
So it definitely became real
when he gave us the address of where he was at,
the car went and picked him up, and the driver called the Love Ranch
and said, "Yep, it's him, and we're in the car,
and we're on the way back out there."
When you think about pivotal memories in your past,
it is weird to get definitive confirmation
that one of those locations has been completely erased from existence.
911, where is your emergency?
We need an ambulance.
It was early in the week.
A Monday or Tuesday or something like that.
Very slow day.
The Love Ranch had, like, a separate house behind the brothel.
If you were spending enough money,
we'd put you in that house.
And I knew Lamar was there.
He'd been there for, I think, the last two days at that point.
So I'm sitting at my desk, I'm working,
and one of the girls that was with him
comes running into my office screaming.
"Oh my God, Richard, come quick. Something's happened to Lamar."
I run into the room, it's completely blacked out.
All the shades are pulled, everything.
The first thing I remember is the sound,
because he was snoring so heavily.
Like, something was wrong.
I said we needed to call 911.
I'm at the Love Ranch at 300 Appaloosa Lane.
They said they were gonna send somebody out,
but I just wanted to let them know that they need to hurry, please.
Okay, is he conscious?
No.
And I'm explaining to the operator what is going on.
What side do you have him turned on?
On his right side.
Okay, see if you can get him on his left side.
Each one of you grab a leg.
I need to move him down on his side.
You know, he's a giant.
This guy's, like, seven feet tall and 350 pounds.
Huge.
When I got him on his side, he just expelled.
Fluid starts coming out of his mouth.
He's got some white stuff coming out of his mouth and nose too.
Did he take anything right before this happened?
He had told one of the girls that he had had some cocaine
before he arrived at the brothel.
Now that would've been two days prior.
The girl that had been with him said,
"He also took these,"
and she holds up this packet.
Something called "Reload"
"Sexual performance enhancer for men."
And I asked her,
"How many of these did he take?"
And she said, "Probably 12."
And I looked at the package, and the package said,
"Don't take more than one every 24 hours."
The EMTs came in the room, and there was three of 'em.
Because of his size, they weren't gonna be able
to get him on the stretcher to wheel him out.
So we had to pull up the fitted sheet that he was on, on the bed.
And each of those three guys took a corner.
And I took the fourth corner, and we held the sheet like this.
And we walked him out of the, uh, suite.
And when the sun hit his face,
and I had one of the corners that was up by his head,
I looked down at his face, and I just remember thinking,
"This guy may be dead."
I remember I called my girlfriend, and I said,
"Everything's okay. With me, anyway."
"But I'm at a hospital with Lamar Odom."
"He's in the ER, and he is in a bad way."
"You're probably going to start hearing about this on the news."
Former Lakers player Lamar Odom
is fighting for his life at Sunrise Hospital.
He was rushed there after days of partying at the Love Ranch brothel.
I was doing a photo shoot for People Magazine.
And the night before, I had a dream about Lamar that he was dead,
and I was at his funeral, and I was sobbing.
In my interview, Kim called me three times.
I get in the car, I call her, and she's like,
"Lamar overdosed. He's in Vegas."
And I just remember screaming.
It was like eight o'clock. Just, like, about to head to bed.
And, um, my mom came in.
She was like, "I just got a text saying, like,
they just read TMZ, and your dad's, like, in a coma."
I just remember the room being, like, heavy, if that makes sense.
It felt like the walls were kind of, like, closing in.
We didn't know details yet. And my mom was just distraught.
She was just trying to make phone calls and just like,
um, "How do we get to Vegas?"
Looks like a dire situation right now.
Right, well, he was found around 3:15
by two of the girls at the Love Ranch.
And reportedly, and according to a police report,
he had liquid coming out of his nose, his mouth, and he was unconscious.
So we get to the hospital.
His dad was there.
I assume, thought, he's now the beneficiary to Lamar.
And Joe just said, "Don't put him on life support."
"Turn those machines off."
And I remember walking in around that time,
and I kid you not, it was a scene out of a movie.
And I'm like, "Sorry, Joe, I'm still his wife. What do you need?"
And Joe wanted a pair of Nikes and $100, and a hotel room for the night.
And Joe left and never came back.
This is my husband.
Through sickness and health, I have to be there for him.
I have to show up for him.
And I was gonna do everything I could to make sure
that he had the best fighting chance.
And I just trusted myself more than I trusted anyone in his circle.
His former wife, Khloé Kardashian, at his side.
Because of a backlog in the courts, their divorce is not final.
And she alone is making medical decisions on his behalf.
He had a lot of brain damage on the left side of his body,
and his lungs collapsed.
They were like, "Okay, the surgery,
there's, like, a 10% chance it will work, or he might die on the table."
And Kobe Bryant was there.
And he helped me make the decision of doing the surgery.
We got his lungs to work, and he didn't die.
But he fell into a coma.
For the very first time since their father
was brought here to Sunrise Hospital,
Lamar Odom's children are now in Las Vegas to be with their father.
The news was still saying like, "He's been in a coma for, like, two days."
And I was like…
…"I can at least, like, say my goodbyes."
"Prayers for Lamar" was trending.
Like, the world was, like, literally praying for him.
'Cause it's bigger than basketball.
It's bigger than being a reality-TV husband.
Like, people…
I think people genuinely saw, this is a man broken and full of pain.
When we went into the hospital room,
like, it was hard seeing him all tubed up and everything.
He was so swollen. I remember how swollen he was.
It did look like he was just sleeping.
And, um, I just grabbed his hand,
and I… I said everything.
I was like, "You can't leave."
"Like, we-- we-- we still have memories to make."
Um…
He was in a coma for, I wanna say, like, three days, four days.
Twelve strokes.
I think it was six heart attacks, which is unheard of.
Sources close to Odom tell our sister network
that Lamar Odom is hooked up to a ventilator in a coma
and likely suffered brain damage.
The doctor said,
"He may not be able to respond to you or, like, talk back to you,
but he could hear you while he's in a coma."
I think it was 2003,
2002, when Jay-Z or Fat Joe had that big basketball tournament
in New York City, he played for Jay-Z's team.
And in a clip, in a highlight…
He's gotta skip to him. What is he going to do?
…he makes a good move.
Shammgods it between some dude's legs.
The crowd goes crazy.
And then he does a little dance, a little shimmy.
Yeah, I always just played that clip for him, you know, so he could hear it.
We're seeing some activity in front of the hospital.
TMZ is reporting that Lamar Odom is in a coma.
One woman told me Khloé Kardashian was here last night to be by Odom's side.
Some people got to see him. Some people didn't.
We had no control over that. Khloé had control over that.
I had filters on who I would let into the hospital.
That's very true.
At the very beginning, I would let people come in.
And then I found out, like, three of them were drug dealers
that were wanting to collect money,
rummaging through his personal bags.
And when that happened is when I said, "We're on lockdown."
"Whoever wants to come, I need to authorize them being here."
Literally, we were coming out of the elevator.
The whole family was with me.
And Kris Jenner's bodyguard was like,
"Before you come onto this floor, you guys gotta sign this."
And I was looking at him, and he was like, "Not you."
I was like, "I thought so."
So they didn't give me the NDA, but they gave it to his family.
It got so bad that somebody must've told the cops
because the Vegas PD came upstairs with, like, five cops,
two German shepherds.
It was very intimidating.
Um, but I think it was to keep the peace,
but yet, it made it kind of worse, kind of triggering.
And Destiny also had to be like, "My father is down the hall."
"Like, we are praying for him to wake up. Like, we don't need this. Like, stop."
Death is something we'll all go through.
And in my family… Lamar knows this. My mother said it. I say it.
The kids say it.
Whatever don't kill you makes you stronger.
And we some strong people.
Before all the media trucks had really gotten there,
everything really started to sink in
because the adrenaline dump happened.
And my part of this, at least in real time dealing with it, is done.
All of a sudden, there appears this guy.
And he comes up to me, and he identifies himself as somebody from Lamar's team.
He says, "Lamar, uh, has a backpack that he brought with him to the brothel."
I said, "I'm not authorized to turn anything over until I hear from my boss."
He says, "Listen, right now,
no one knows anything about this."
"And I'm sure your boss would like to keep it that way."
And boy… …I thought to myself,
"You, sir, do not know Dennis Hof."
The owner of the brothel where Lamar Odom was found unresponsive
is speaking out tonight.
He was in a good mood, wanted to have a good time.
He wanted peace and quiet.
He said he was doing cocaine before he got there on Saturday.
A hard day in the brothel business.
The very first words out of his mouth are, "Okay, I've called TMZ."
"I've told the National Enquirer they can have the exclusive interview,
but TMZ breaks the story."
Well, everything was fine until Tuesday morning.
-He was there for a good time-- -Hold on, Hof.
I didn't know you had extended stay.
He realizes he's got a couple of chips here.
Everybody wants the receipt that Lamar signed.
He paid a tab of $75,000 up front.
And they also want the footage. And so a bidding war ensues.
We're getting word that there is video of him during his stay at the ranch.
The ranch's owner, Dennis Hof, confirmed the video exists,
but says the current bid was at $50,000.
The deal Dennis finally strikes
is he gives it to the Today Show.
And the deal he works out is Matt Lauer's sitting there,
and he says, uh,
"Joining us now is the owner of the Love Ranch,
and the author of The Art of the Pimp,
available in bookstores everywhere,
Dennis Hof."
If I didn't know it before, I knew after that.
That in terms of what we were gonna do
or would be willing to do for publicity,
there wasn't a limit.
Here they come.
News broke this afternoon that Lamar Odom woke up
after nearly three days of being unconscious.
A close friend of Odom's tells us he's now off of breathing tubes
and even opened his eyes.
Khloé, are you worried about Lamar?
Do you think Lamar's ready to die if he doesn't get straight?
What do you think, Khloé?
Are you gonna try to help Lamar?
Each and every day that Odom's health slightly improves,
security around the hospital heightens.
So many people so desperate to catch a glimpse
of the former NBA star or possibly a Kardashian,
we're told some have dressed up as security guards and nurses
to try and get in.
Woke up three days later, ripping tubes and shit outta my neck.
I still got the scar from it.
I'm serious, ripping the shit out of my neck and my face.
I'm freaking out, and I'm calling the nurse,
and he pulls this tube out, and he looks around, and he says,
"Hey, baby," and falls back asleep.
I'm like, "What the fuck just happened?"
When you wake up from a coma, you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Just pulling the shit all out your neck and everything.
Yeah, I got the reminders right here.
These are the TMZ photos of the helicopter
that transported Lamar Odom
to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,
where he will reportedly undergo six hours of dialysis a day.
We support Lamar.
Queensbridge, Ravenswood, all his friends back home.
Go set Lamar up.
-What's his poison? -Holding up?
Hi, Lamar, this is Monica Monroe from Love Ranch.
Dennis and the team just wanna wish you well in your recovery.
-Any words for Lamar? -Love you.
Wish Lamar a happy birthday for us, will you?
It's hard to focus on other things right now.
Lamar is a brother to me. My prayers are with him.
It's-- it's tough thinking about him just laying there.
When I woke up, I couldn't hold my bowels.
So you can-- you can imagine the humility of being in, um, Cedars-Sinai Hospital.
Yeah, I won two championships, I'm Lamar Odom, I can't walk, can't talk.
And they come in to check my diaper.
My wife was, uh…
around me, she helped wipe some of the shit up.
I never left.
I was there for about four months with him every single day.
We were, like, determined to get him walking and moving again.
Do a shoulder press. Come on, I know you do shoulder press.
Let's go. Up.
Some of the circuits weren't connecting to different outlets of his brain.
Yes, you're close. There you go.
But Lamar's determination, that's just rooted in his body,
is what got him to being where he is.
And he did learn how to walk again at Cedars.
And that was really special.
-There you go. -Now you're smiling.
-Is he smiling? -Yeah.
Nice.
You're doing so well.
I know this is the first time that you've sat down live,
and you are fully willing to talk about
the journey that you've been through with Lamar.
He's doing great. But, you know, it's a long journey.
And it's… Every day is different. We take every day as it comes.
I've learned not to look into the future too much.
I try to live every day as it comes.
And I'm just… 2016 is a good year.
Do you know who this is?
This is your son.
Your son's name is Lamar Jr.
And we call him LJ.
It probably was harder for her 'cause I couldn't say, "Thank you,"
or, "I appreciate you," or…
I couldn't show any-- I wouldn't even cry. You know, I wouldn't even…
One, two,
three.
Do it!
Blow.
Three.
It was like I was
a heartbeat.
Good job.
You did great.
There was a lot of challenges, but he's a fighter.
And as long as he's willing to fight it and constantly better himself,
then that's all I could ask for.
You about to go swim?
Hell no.
You know I don't swim.
Before I die, I promise I'm gonna learn how to swim.
And go back to school.
Because I got a chance right now to…
coach in college really soon and…
probably, um…
After that, probably in the NBA if I want to.
But I really wanna use coaching in college to go back to school.
My grandmother went back to school when she was 50 years old.
And graduated.
When we got discharged, I was not thinking, but I was like,
"Oh, yeah, where is Lamar going?"
So at this point, Lamar can barely talk.
He can speak a little bit, but it's more like, "Mm-hm."
And everything's delayed.
He wasn't able to take a shower on his own.
We had to test the water. He couldn't decipher hot and cold.
So I rented a home for him in the community.
I had a caretaker. I had a chef.
And we were gonna rehabilitate him.
Once you know the smell of crack,
it's the most identifiable, disgusting smell.
And there's nothing that you can confuse it with.
And I remember stopping by the house, and I smelled crack.
Okay, I'm gonna fucking be as stealth as possible.
And I'm gonna see what this guy's doing.
I remember slowly tiptoeing up the stairs.
He was in his bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed,
and smoking crack.
And I just punched him in his face.
"I just put my life on hold to fucking take care of you."
"How did you get this? You don't have a fucking phone."
"You can't talk."
Well, lo and behold, he had a phone.
He was better than I knew.
He was playing me so I can continue this lifestyle for him.
I said, "By Monday, you need out of this house."
"I'm done. I'm not paying for a thing."
"And I never wanna speak to you again."
Khloé Kardashian has filed for divorce from Lamar Odom
for the second time, again.
She previously filed for divorce in 2013,
but then withdrew that petition
after the former NBA star was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel.
I'm trying to think about like, who the fuck…?
If you know Lamar Odom just went through that,
how would you even-- Why would you even give him coke?
That's fucked up.
He was on this kind of like redemption tour a little bit,
moving around here to there in LA, going to events.
He went to Kobe's last game.
Kobe! Kobe!
But he never went to rehab.
He just kind of like acted like the coma thing never really happened.
There was, like, this Kanye West event in Madison Square Garden that he was at.
And I was like, "You didn't even come to see me."
"Like, what are you doing?"
When you just look at somebody as an addict and,
"It's your fault because you started using drugs,"
and, "Oh, just grow up and just stop it."
And it's, like, no, when you really learn about it, like,
you see, like, how you can get really snagged into it.
I feel like Lamar's struggle his entire life
is that he's blamed himself for so many tragic events in his life.
And sometimes, I think these events he uses to rationalize
why he abuses the way he does, because then when you find out,
"I do something bad, I have a backpack of reasons why."
Like, Lamar's had an extraordinary life.
Yes, bad and good, but fuck, it's extraordinary.
And he needs to lean into that.
I could depend on my family,
but most people leave you to fucking rot in the wind.
Even the people that say that they love you, bro.
People show their true colors, bro.
I don't really let my… I don't really trust too much.
All right. Okay.
Over the years, uh, fans have always sent me mail here.
And I always made it a point to, when Lamar came in town, sign it.
Keep it all together and make him sign it.
"Dear Mr. Odom, I'm a huge basketball fan."
"I love your style of playing
and was hoping you would sign one of your rookie cards for me."
"Thank you so much. Brian Ingram."
And here's his two rookie cards.
Oh, he looks so cute.
He's like Michael Jordan a little bit right here.
Look at this.
Look at that. Look at the vet.
Look at the vet set 'em up. With three fouls.
As much as he's grown over the past couple years,
I feel like sometimes you always gotta put him back on track.
Okay, quarter number four, down 18.
It seems like you're the parent and he's the son.
Or he's the little kid.
We all got a lot of growing up to do, but I feel like he…
He got a lot of growing up to do also.
-Come on, man. -Oh, shit.
When I was on Big Brother reality show, I'm there…
I was there for like 30 days.
Out of those 30 days,
I dreamt Kobe four times.
The last dream that I remember clearly, we were having a shooting contest.
Billy Crystal was emceeing it. That's how you know it's a dream, right?
So before he goes up first, he looks at…
He looks back at me, and he says,
"LO, the afterlife is not what people make it out to be."
When he said that, I'm like,
"Right now is, now is go-mode."
You ain't fucking giving me another workout on the lower back.
Awesome. I'll call you back.
I don't look weird walking up this mountain with these pants on?
No, you look great.
Shit's crazy because at the end of the day,
we're all really just trying to find out.
For me, it's the search and quest for life.
Like, "Why am I here? Why did God spare me?"
Like, I had twelve strokes and six heart attacks, dude. Like…
That's not no average shit.
Shit.
I mean, not to get kinky,
but I don't wanna take my pants off down there.
I got the pants on and y'all lagging behind.
Oh no, you're not.
I was talking shit.
I mean, shit.
You got Clippers, Lakers, Khloé,
death, life, kids, now.
I think they know I'm a sex fiend and a drug addict.
Um…
Did basketball solve my problems or create my problems?
I would say both.
It solved my problems because it gave me a refuge and always a safe place.
But all this fame and fortune came to me that obviously I wasn't ready for.
And then it was so crazy. I think about that all the time.
Like, would that be my safe place,
like, if nobody knew who I was for a day?
Or would that drive me crazy?
Like, who knows?
I mean, a lot of people come up to me and, you know,
notice me and, you know, greet me and whatever.
I've been out the NBA for, what, ten years?
I know I'm here for something.
And once I find that out…
Tonight…
…well, look out.
You've gotta do what's right…
Real Sex is a wrap!
I'm a Netflix baby now. I'm… Does this make me an A-lister?
I'm with it. I'm ready to go to Vegas, bro.
-You're going to Vegas tonight? -Fuck it, bro.
I'm gonna marry somebody in Vegas. Fuck it.
I get…
I'm joking.
-I know you are. -I'm joking.
Someone's alone
In your city tonight joking.