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I'm working here
maybe just a couple of months,

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and my boss says to me,

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"Hey, the, uh, the art gallery
exhibit that we have,

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I'm taking all that out."

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"I've got a new exhibit."

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"You won't believe what I got."

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Come in the room,

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and he has reassembled
the bed and the nightstands

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and the mirrors from the room

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that Lamar Odom OD'd on.

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And this is the bed.

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Odom to the basket!
Jumper in the air. He's got it!

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This is the location

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of one of the most
harrowing experiences of my life.

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He's got, looks like
white stuff coming out of his mouth.

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They need to hurry, please.

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And it somehow followed me
from the Love Ranch

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all the way to my next job
at the Haunted Museum.

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Bryant to Odom. Odom…

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Oh! Throws it down!

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This story is everywhere.

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Everyone's buzzing
about Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom.

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Khloé Kardashian
getting married to Lamar Odom

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in this lavish star-studded wedding.

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Odom goes behind the back!
Are you kidding me?!

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I'm afraid of death.

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I'm afraid of, you know, not being here.

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After headlines
about possible drug and marital problems,

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Odom has been arrested.

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Could you imagine if Lamar passed away

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and they had to put me in the ground?

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Lamar Odom found unconscious at a brothel.

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Multiple strokes, brain damage.

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He has not woken up,
and the condition is dire.

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Like, I had twelve strokes
and six heart attacks, dude.

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Like, that's not no average shit.

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Do you know who this is?

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This is your son.

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And we call him LJ.

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I was dead for three days.

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I made it, though.

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Breathe through your nose.

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Feel the inhale.

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Let the breath out.

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Feel your feet.

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Relax your thigh.

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Carry it up through your spine.

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Feel the breath going in.

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And now out.

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That kind of thing.

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When I've described
the type of methods that I've used

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over the past 25 years of coaching,

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we used the term "one breath, one mind."

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There's a certain sense
that I want players to have

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about what I consider is the correct way
or an appropriate way to live life.

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'Cause I think it's important for them
to continue to grow as young men.

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I usually say that it's transformational
rather than transactional,

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and meeting the individual where he's at.

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The Lakers' offseason started
with talks of a 70-plus-win season,

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but now they have
a recurring problem to tend to.

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The on-again, now off-again relationship
between Kobe and Shaquille O'Neal.

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People wanted me
to just level off my play.

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I'm not gonna do that.

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I wanted to be a team player.

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If the big dog ain't me,
then the house won't get guarded.

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Kobe said, "It doesn't matter whose team."

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"No coming into camp
fat and out of shape."

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Kobe wants to win rings
without Shaquille O'Neal.

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In 2004, Shaq felt
he was betrayed a little bit,

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and the decision was made
to stand behind Kobe

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and make him a long-term part
of the Laker organization.

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The major headline
around the league tonight,

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the Los Angeles Lakers
and Miami Heat have agreed to a trade

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that will send Shaquille O'Neal,
one of the greatest big men of all time,

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to sunny South Florida.

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So Shaq left, Kobe was there,

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and Lamar came in the trade.

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They traded Shaquille O'Neal
to Miami for three players

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who will give LA's roster
a very different look.

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There are big changes
that are on this team,

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and there's some unknowns.

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You know,
we have a lot of young players who,

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you know, have something to prove,
and I'm excited.

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From Rhode Island, Lamar Odom.

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It's crazy 'cause I was
a Clipper before that.

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Sends it to Odom.
Odom baseline once again.

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So I was always, like,

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like, "Damn, it look good over there."

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You know, obviously from coming
from the Clippers to the Heat,

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then back to the Lakers
was a dream come true.

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With Lamar, there are things
that we kind of accommodated

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to kind of settle in.

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He had one incident,
a suspension by the Los Angeles Clippers.

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I'm, you know, disappointed in myself

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for not handling myself correctly.

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Substance abuse,
or whatever they called it.

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And then had been subsequently
traded from them to Miami.

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It's my new crew, my new crew.

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He was a player
that wasn't used to the discipline

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of format or intensive training.

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One to two, start line drill.

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But you could see
that his greatness was also there.

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Let's see if they can cash in.

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This could be Lamar Odom.

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How about that!

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And then really
his teammates supported him.

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You know, there's community,
and Lamar really likes teams.

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It's his family.

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Homerooms were by last name,
alphabetical order.

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So I'm M, he's O.
So we met, like, pretty much first day.

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I would see him in the back of the bus.
That's where the cool kids hung out.

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But when I wouldn't see him in the bus,

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it's because he'd show up
after homeroom bell,

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sometimes putting on his tie.

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He's half dressed, brushing his teeth.

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He was always on his own time.

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I was seeing somebody that he knew too.

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And I remember I was,
like, crying in homeroom.

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And Lamar was like, "Don't cry over him.
You need to give me a chance."

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He always had charisma.

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Back then I didn't know it was charisma.

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Everybody was just always drawn to him.

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I wasn't unique.

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He knew how to…

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Pretty much, he knew how to charm.
I'll just say that.

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And these are plaques
from his Brooklyn Diocese

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and basketball division.

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Now this is his high school picture
at Christ the King.

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Here he is right there.

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We came to Queens in 1957.

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I was 4, and Cathy was 2 weeks old.

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She had conceived Lamar when she was 22.

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And when she had Lamar,
she was gonna name him Lamont.

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And I said, "Cathy, that's a sissy name.
Name him Lamar."

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So she let me name him Lamar.

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This is Lamar up here.

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And godsons, my nephew Sherrod.

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Lamar's father was Joe.

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They had a big wedding.

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It was a big wedding.

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And then after a while it was estranged,
an estranged marriage.

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My father was a… He gave into…

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He gave into, you know, into drugs.

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That's why my mother left him.
He didn't wanna stop.

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I'd see him maybe, like, once a month,
he'd come through,

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give me some money or whatever
and… and leave.

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But my mom was a real cool,
down-to-earth woman.

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She was pretty, and she was tall.

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And I remember my mother getting sick.

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We were coming from the Poconos,

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and she was complaining
her stomach was hurting.

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Our first trip in between going
to the hospital and coming back

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was like two different people,
she lost so much weight.

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So they had diagnosed her in January,
and she was gone…

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Two days after
it was Fourth of July, so July 6th.

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She was gone.

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I wanna honor my sister Cathy.

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She passed away when Lamar was 10.

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And this is us at a party.

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You know,
I put this here 'cause she's my angel.

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I just took the basketball
and went to the park.

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Stayed out all night and shot the rock.

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You know, basketball.
Always knew it was gonna be my way.

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When he started playing the ninth grade,

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he was like 5'10".

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Came back, he shot up to 6'7".

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And then he shot up after that.

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This guy, Lamar Odom,
with the basketball, at 6'9",

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is considered by many people to be
the best of the high school class of 1997.

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At Christ the King,
I won the city championship.

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I had like 35 points.

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So I kind of knew about attention.

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I didn't know, you know,
how and how much I was gonna get.

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He was becoming, like, more known

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and getting in headlines
and stuff like that.

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He ended up going
to Rhode Island for college.

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It was only a few hours away,
like four hours' drive.

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And so he would come to Queens
to hang out with his friends.

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He would see me.

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It was one of those visits
that he came down to Queens and, boop!

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I ended up getting pregnant with Destiny.

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To the lane.
Lamar says, "Get that stuff outta here!"

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And so we had our own
little family unit, you know?

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Mind you, we're, like, 19, 20 years old.
We're babies ourselves.

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But he wasn't that ever-present father
because he couldn't be.

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Thirty feet away. Jumper in the air.

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He's got it!

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Lamar Odom has won it for Rhode Island!

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Obviously,
his goal was to go to the league.

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So I feel there was a lot of distractions,
a lot of people.

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He would introduce me to people,
and I would be like, "Hi."

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What am I gonna do?

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That actually happened
at our daughter's baptism as well.

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Somebody shook my hand, and Lamar
wanted him to be the godfather of Destiny.

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I had never met the man.

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There's a lot at stake
for the star sophomore.

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He could possibly be
the top draft pick in the country.

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We were all there at the draft.

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My mother, my cousin, Brenda,

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my sister, Sandy, was there,

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Michael's wife, my brother's wife, Wanda.

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Good evening,
and welcome to the 1999 NBA Draft.

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My cousin, Gerald,
my cousin, Lisa, the boys.

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We got the boys that used to live
in the Bronx, "the Ohio boys."

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With the fourth pick
in the 1999 NBA Draft,

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the Los Angeles Clippers select…

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You know what he told me?
"Any team but the Clippers."

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Lamar Odom
from the University of Rhode Island.

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I remember I didn't want him to go to LA.

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I just knew, like,
Hollywood, LA, like, hot mess.

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Like, you lose your soul.

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When they ended up coming back
from the draft, we were on my stoop,

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and he was like,
"You need to come with me to LA."

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"I need my family.
I want you and Destiny with me."

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And I was like, "We're a family."

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"And if he's telling me he wants me to go,
I'm gonna go."

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We got a place in Marina del Rey.

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I remember I flew out
with his aunt JaNean and Destiny.

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You know, when they moved to LA
and they had the penthouse,

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I came out there,
and I saw how things was going.

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I said, "We gotta go shopping."

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That was like, my first time
seeing people who were in the public eye.

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I was like,
"These are people I see on TV."

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Lamar was always gone.

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He had press, all these things
that I had to learn really quickly

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that this was gonna be his schedule.

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So I do feel like he was getting
more busy and more stress.

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And then our son, LJ, is born.

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So it was a lot
in our family, like, timeline.

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To Odom. Slam dunk!

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Lamar did really well with the Clippers.

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And to Lamar.

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The lob. The jam! What a…

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But at the time,
nobody stayed with the Clippers.

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And so he knew he wanted to leave.
And he ended up going to Miami.

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Coast to coast, it counts!

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Got traded for Shaq.

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And then I got pregnant.

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Jayden was…

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He was just so curious.

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He had big eyes,

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and he would look around the room.

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I remember I was just exhausted

00:12:59.153 --> 00:13:01.530 align:center
because he'd be up every two,
two and a half hours.

00:13:02.281 --> 00:13:04.325 align:center
I did think he'd be my last child.

00:13:04.408 --> 00:13:07.036 align:center
And I remember saying to myself,
"Appreciate this,"

00:13:07.119 --> 00:13:10.122 align:center
because something was telling me
to enjoy that moment.

00:13:11.665 --> 00:13:15.795 align:center
We went to New York
for a funeral for Lamar's aunt.

00:13:15.878 --> 00:13:20.090 align:center
And we had a home
on the border of Long Island and Queens.

00:13:21.342 --> 00:13:23.469 align:center
And I remember oversleeping.

00:13:23.552 --> 00:13:27.598 align:center
And I remember, like,
"I didn't hear Jayden wake me up."

00:13:27.681 --> 00:13:31.060 align:center
And my mom was making breakfast
for the kids or something.

00:13:31.143 --> 00:13:35.314 align:center
And I was like, "I just…
Can you believe Jayden's still sleeping?"

00:13:35.397 --> 00:13:37.566 align:center
"Can you believe that?"
She was like, "Really?"

00:13:37.650 --> 00:13:39.527 align:center
"He's okay, right?" I was like, "Yeah."

00:13:40.736 --> 00:13:42.112 align:center
So we just went upstairs.

00:13:42.196 --> 00:13:49.036 align:center
And I just remember, like,
turning him over, and his lips were blue.

00:13:49.119 --> 00:13:51.205 align:center
And, uh…

00:13:52.331 --> 00:13:56.502 align:center
Yeah, like… And my mother,
I just remember my mother just screaming,

00:13:56.585 --> 00:13:59.088 align:center
"Call 911. Call 911."

00:13:59.171 --> 00:14:05.219 align:center
I just saw the firemen
just grab him up like a football

00:14:05.302 --> 00:14:07.096 align:center
and…

00:14:07.179 --> 00:14:10.683 align:center
just ran to the… …uh…

00:14:10.766 --> 00:14:12.059 align:center
ambulance.

00:14:13.894 --> 00:14:16.355 align:center
Get to the hospital.

00:14:16.438 --> 00:14:19.817 align:center
And I just remember, like, a woman doctor.

00:14:20.776 --> 00:14:24.321 align:center
And she was just like, "I'm so sorry."

00:14:24.405 --> 00:14:26.323 align:center
She was like, "I'm so sorry."

00:14:26.407 --> 00:14:28.409 align:center
And she was just like,

00:14:28.492 --> 00:14:30.703 align:center
"We tried everything."

00:14:30.786 --> 00:14:32.830 align:center
And she was like, "I'm so sorry."

00:14:34.540 --> 00:14:36.625 align:center
At that point, Lamar--

00:14:36.709 --> 00:14:39.420 align:center
He got to the hospital,
and they showed him where to go,

00:14:39.503 --> 00:14:41.297 align:center
where the room I was in and…

00:14:41.380 --> 00:14:42.715 align:center
um…

00:14:43.632 --> 00:14:45.467 align:center
I mean, he was just so cold.

00:14:45.551 --> 00:14:47.344 align:center
And…

00:14:47.428 --> 00:14:48.804 align:center
I just knew, like…

00:14:50.264 --> 00:14:52.725 align:center
it was just a shell.

00:14:54.602 --> 00:14:56.353 align:center
Hmmm…

00:14:57.730 --> 00:14:59.607 align:center
Um…

00:14:59.690 --> 00:15:01.650 align:center
Sudden infant death syndrome.

00:15:02.401 --> 00:15:03.611 align:center
So…

00:15:04.570 --> 00:15:05.905 align:center
um…

00:15:07.281 --> 00:15:09.950 align:center
when you get the death certificate,
it just says…

00:15:11.410 --> 00:15:14.705 align:center
not "undisclosed," not "undescribed."

00:15:14.788 --> 00:15:18.959 align:center
They give you a "un" word
that doesn't really answer any questions.

00:15:20.502 --> 00:15:23.756 align:center
I didn't really cry too much
when he passed away.

00:15:23.839 --> 00:15:25.841 align:center
And then to think
about the night he passed away,

00:15:25.925 --> 00:15:28.469 align:center
I was out all night partying

00:15:28.552 --> 00:15:29.762 align:center
with my man.

00:15:31.305 --> 00:15:33.724 align:center
And then the baby
just looked like he's asleep.

00:15:35.768 --> 00:15:38.103 align:center
No scars, no hemorrhages, no nothing.

00:15:39.146 --> 00:15:43.859 align:center
I remember when me and my cousin
Sherrod went to go identify his body

00:15:43.943 --> 00:15:45.319 align:center
the next day.

00:15:46.654 --> 00:15:47.947 align:center
Just looked asleep.

00:15:50.532 --> 00:15:53.494 align:center
Well, they say that people
that go through that,

00:15:54.078 --> 00:15:56.872 align:center
it either brings 'em together
and makes them extremely strong,

00:15:57.831 --> 00:15:59.541 align:center
or it brings them apart.

00:16:00.584 --> 00:16:01.669 align:center
It was the summer,

00:16:01.752 --> 00:16:06.757 align:center
and Lamar always
went back to get ready for the game.

00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:08.717 align:center
And…

00:16:08.801 --> 00:16:10.344 align:center
this time was different.

00:16:10.427 --> 00:16:12.554 align:center
Um…

00:16:12.638 --> 00:16:14.056 align:center
I didn't wanna go back.

00:16:14.139 --> 00:16:16.058 align:center
Um…

00:16:16.141 --> 00:16:18.102 align:center
And I told him that.

00:16:20.479 --> 00:16:22.064 align:center
I gotta go back to work.

00:16:23.190 --> 00:16:25.150 align:center
I can't… You know what I mean?

00:16:25.234 --> 00:16:28.153 align:center
If you wanna stay here
and you stay in New York…

00:16:28.737 --> 00:16:29.822 align:center
She stayed in New York,

00:16:29.905 --> 00:16:33.367 align:center
but move from the place
where he passed away from.

00:16:35.285 --> 00:16:37.037 align:center
And, uh…

00:16:37.121 --> 00:16:38.122 align:center
that was that.

00:16:40.374 --> 00:16:43.544 align:center
I just probably just knew my place.
I mean, what else am I gonna do?

00:16:43.627 --> 00:16:45.587 align:center
I don't expect people to pity me.

00:16:46.171 --> 00:16:47.548 align:center
You know, it happens.

00:16:50.926 --> 00:16:51.885 align:center
It's just…

00:16:51.969 --> 00:16:55.848 align:center
Hey, man, it's just something that's gonna
make me a much stronger individual.

00:16:55.931 --> 00:16:57.850 align:center
There's been points
in my life where maybe,

00:16:57.933 --> 00:17:00.978 align:center
I don't know if basketball
is gonna make me feel better, you know?

00:17:01.061 --> 00:17:02.980 align:center
My son dying was one of those times.

00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.319 align:center
We've all been through some shit.

00:17:11.321 --> 00:17:15.159 align:center
You know, us being here
and then us not being here is just, like…

00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.870 align:center
You know, who the fuck knows?

00:17:18.871 --> 00:17:20.247 align:center
I don't care who your god is.

00:17:20.831 --> 00:17:23.542 align:center
Allah, Jehovah,

00:17:23.625 --> 00:17:24.585 align:center
um,

00:17:24.668 --> 00:17:25.878 align:center
Christ,

00:17:26.462 --> 00:17:27.546 align:center
Kobe.

00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:32.968 align:center
But, um, you will have
to give yourself up to something.

00:17:33.927 --> 00:17:36.430 align:center
-Hey, good morning.
-Paul Hunter's following him today.

00:17:36.513 --> 00:17:38.098 align:center
-Good morning, Paul.
-A pleasure.

00:17:38.182 --> 00:17:40.851 align:center
Good morning, fans. How y'all doing today?

00:17:40.934 --> 00:17:45.898 align:center
I'm a little bit, you know,
wakey-wakey, but I'm up.

00:17:46.940 --> 00:17:49.693 align:center
Hanging out in LA, my agent,
David Bowman said,

00:17:49.777 --> 00:17:52.654 align:center
"The Lakers wanna speak to you.
They wanna sign you."

00:17:52.738 --> 00:17:54.031 align:center
I'm like, "What?"

00:17:55.115 --> 00:17:56.825 align:center
I just couldn't believe it.

00:17:56.909 --> 00:17:58.994 align:center
Ron Artest joining the Lake show.

00:17:59.078 --> 00:18:02.498 align:center
Two years ago, he told Kobe Bryant
he wanted to help him win a championship.

00:18:02.581 --> 00:18:04.374 align:center
And now that day has finally arrived.

00:18:04.458 --> 00:18:06.794 align:center
I wanted to be a part
of the Lakers for a long time.

00:18:06.877 --> 00:18:09.546 align:center
And then you throw
Phil Jackson in the mix.

00:18:09.630 --> 00:18:11.507 align:center
Who would pass on the opportunity?

00:18:11.590 --> 00:18:13.926 align:center
Being a Laker is way different.

00:18:14.009 --> 00:18:17.805 align:center
You know, it's Hollywood, so you're
definitely performing for the stars.

00:18:17.888 --> 00:18:19.389 align:center
Let's see, where's TMZ?

00:18:20.265 --> 00:18:21.100 align:center
They're not here?

00:18:21.767 --> 00:18:23.352 align:center
I think the key to LA is, like,

00:18:23.435 --> 00:18:26.105 align:center
if you're going to be here,
you might as well level up.

00:18:26.188 --> 00:18:28.857 align:center
If you use it the right way,
I think it can help you.

00:18:28.941 --> 00:18:31.151 align:center
"Lamar" means
"famous throughout the land."

00:18:31.735 --> 00:18:34.279 align:center
That's one of the meanings of the name.

00:18:34.363 --> 00:18:37.157 align:center
You know, me being who I was at the time,

00:18:37.241 --> 00:18:39.493 align:center
I wasn't an extra super,
super-duper star yet.

00:18:39.576 --> 00:18:44.456 align:center
I still had to cross that path
of trying to be A-lister.

00:18:44.540 --> 00:18:47.584 align:center
I found the invite last night
when I was doing research.

00:18:47.668 --> 00:18:48.669 align:center
Let me show you this.

00:18:48.752 --> 00:18:50.087 align:center
Don't wanna give me my shine.

00:18:50.170 --> 00:18:51.588 align:center
That's the Welcome to LA party.

00:18:51.672 --> 00:18:53.048 align:center
Is Khloé on there?

00:18:53.132 --> 00:18:54.091 align:center
No, I don't think so.

00:18:54.174 --> 00:18:56.009 align:center
That's a horrible flyer. You see that?

00:18:56.593 --> 00:18:58.971 align:center
So I had a "Welcome to LA" party.

00:18:59.054 --> 00:19:03.892 align:center
And then I was trying to see
who could I get to host my party with me.

00:19:03.976 --> 00:19:06.353 align:center
And Khloé was nice enough to accept.

00:19:06.436 --> 00:19:09.106 align:center
So we paid her $5,000 at the time.

00:19:09.189 --> 00:19:11.900 align:center
Sorry, Khloé.
I know your price is way higher now.

00:19:12.609 --> 00:19:17.948 align:center
I'm not exactly sure
how I got that gig because I…

00:19:18.031 --> 00:19:20.534 align:center
never really knew a lot about basketball.

00:19:21.118 --> 00:19:23.036 align:center
My brother was so excited.

00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:25.038 align:center
So I took the job,

00:19:25.122 --> 00:19:28.041 align:center
or I agreed to do it,
really, for my brother.

00:19:31.628 --> 00:19:33.672 align:center
She was there. I didn't even know who she…

00:19:33.755 --> 00:19:36.425 align:center
Honest to God, I didn't know who she was.

00:19:36.508 --> 00:19:38.510 align:center
It's called
Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

00:19:38.594 --> 00:19:41.221 align:center
Hi, I'm Khloé. My sisters say I'm a bitch.

00:19:41.305 --> 00:19:43.682 align:center
Who ******* cares? Shut up, everyone.

00:19:43.765 --> 00:19:47.561 align:center
Prior to this party,
I did not know who Lamar was.

00:19:47.644 --> 00:19:49.813 align:center
I remember he had a plastic bag.

00:19:49.897 --> 00:19:51.940 align:center
And I was like, "What's in your bag?"

00:19:52.024 --> 00:19:53.650 align:center
And he's like, "Candy."

00:19:53.734 --> 00:19:55.819 align:center
And I'm like, "You're such a liar."

00:19:55.903 --> 00:19:59.364 align:center
I'd made up this whole thing.
"You probably have condoms in that bag."

00:19:59.448 --> 00:20:01.450 align:center
And I'm like,
"Let me see what's in the bag."

00:20:01.533 --> 00:20:05.579 align:center
And I remember he poured it out,
and it was all candy and only candy.

00:20:05.662 --> 00:20:06.788 align:center
And I felt so stupid.

00:20:07.831 --> 00:20:12.044 align:center
You know, the first night,
I'll be honest, I was trying to fuck her.

00:20:12.127 --> 00:20:14.004 align:center
She's like, "Ain't that type of party."

00:20:14.087 --> 00:20:19.468 align:center
Got with her the next day, and then
the next day turned into the next day.

00:20:19.551 --> 00:20:21.470 align:center
-Khloé.
-You're excited.

00:20:21.553 --> 00:20:22.721 align:center
Would you marry me?

00:20:23.597 --> 00:20:26.433 align:center
Oh, my God.

00:20:27.392 --> 00:20:30.020 align:center
As much as I can say I know her
or, you know, I knew her,

00:20:30.103 --> 00:20:32.940 align:center
but I don't really
know the person in 30 days.

00:20:33.023 --> 00:20:34.107 align:center
That's what I'm saying.

00:20:34.191 --> 00:20:38.528 align:center
It's crazy. You gotta have a gut feeling.
Like a big dick, some big balls.

00:20:39.404 --> 00:20:40.781 align:center
Which will last longer?

00:20:40.864 --> 00:20:45.202 align:center
The marriage of Khloé Kardashian
and Lamar Odom or…

00:20:47.245 --> 00:20:48.246 align:center
…this pumpkin?

00:20:49.122 --> 00:20:53.627 align:center
I do like to consider myself
pretty levelheaded.

00:20:53.710 --> 00:20:54.836 align:center
I really do.

00:20:55.420 --> 00:20:59.132 align:center
But the cynicism of people judging

00:20:59.216 --> 00:21:02.010 align:center
and, "Is this a real
relationship or is it not?"

00:21:02.094 --> 00:21:03.595 align:center
I totally understood.

00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:06.056 align:center
I mean,
we were getting married in 30 days.

00:21:06.139 --> 00:21:09.142 align:center
So that is insane.

00:21:09.226 --> 00:21:13.814 align:center
Is Lamar Odom making the biggest mistake
any Laker has ever made?

00:21:13.897 --> 00:21:16.274 align:center
Let's go to you.

00:21:17.818 --> 00:21:20.362 align:center
I can't remember what tabloid,
but for our wedding,

00:21:20.445 --> 00:21:22.197 align:center
someone wanted the exclusive.

00:21:22.281 --> 00:21:25.200 align:center
And then they said,
"We want the exclusive of the wedding."

00:21:25.283 --> 00:21:28.912 align:center
"But if we do that, can we also get
the exclusive of the divorce?"

00:21:28.996 --> 00:21:31.415 align:center
Kobe gonna be best man, or what?

00:21:32.708 --> 00:21:35.043 align:center
You're getting married tomorrow!

00:21:35.127 --> 00:21:36.753 align:center
First, I think he texted me like,

00:21:36.837 --> 00:21:39.548 align:center
"Oh, I'm getting married."
I really thought he was joking.

00:21:39.631 --> 00:21:42.509 align:center
I said, "My God, come on now.
That's too soon."

00:21:42.592 --> 00:21:44.511 align:center
I said, "Things like that don't work out."

00:21:45.095 --> 00:21:47.306 align:center
Falling in love the way we fell in love,

00:21:47.389 --> 00:21:52.477 align:center
as quickly as we did
is so not my personality.

00:21:52.561 --> 00:21:54.855 align:center
But he's so charismatic.

00:21:54.938 --> 00:21:57.274 align:center
He's fun and silly.

00:21:57.357 --> 00:22:00.235 align:center
And then he also
is a very vulnerable person.

00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.114 align:center
He's very honest about his life
and what has transpired in his life.

00:22:04.698 --> 00:22:09.703 align:center
My mom couldn't help wanting to,
like, nurture and coddle and care for him.

00:22:09.786 --> 00:22:13.290 align:center
People try to, you know,
steer me away or, you know what I mean?

00:22:13.373 --> 00:22:16.710 align:center
Like my babies' mother
didn't let them come to my wedding.

00:22:16.793 --> 00:22:19.129 align:center
My own kids didn't come to my wedding.

00:22:19.212 --> 00:22:21.256 align:center
I never even met her.

00:22:21.340 --> 00:22:24.009 align:center
I don't think he told me
he was marrying her.

00:22:24.092 --> 00:22:28.805 align:center
I just didn't wanna be a show pony
or anything like that.

00:22:28.889 --> 00:22:32.601 align:center
If you wanna get married
in front of, like, a hundred people

00:22:32.684 --> 00:22:36.229 align:center
and all these cameras,
that's totally cool, and it's on you.

00:22:36.313 --> 00:22:39.566 align:center
Of course, when you decide
to get married to somebody in 30 days,

00:22:39.649 --> 00:22:40.901 align:center
it's gonna hurt.

00:22:40.984 --> 00:22:43.779 align:center
And then on top of it,
let me stick it to you a bit more,

00:22:43.862 --> 00:22:45.155 align:center
it's gonna be on television.

00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:52.579 align:center
Yeah, I went to the wedding.
It was unusual. It was a Hollywood thing.

00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:55.082 align:center
Yeah, Luke!

00:22:55.165 --> 00:22:59.378 align:center
I kind of felt sorry for Lamar
to maybe have to keep up with that.

00:22:59.961 --> 00:23:01.505 align:center
Ron, any final words?

00:23:01.588 --> 00:23:04.174 align:center
I'd known Lamar
longer than everybody here.

00:23:04.257 --> 00:23:06.718 align:center
And I'm in, like, the back table?
You know what I mean?

00:23:06.802 --> 00:23:09.304 align:center
So me and Lamar
still have things to talk about.

00:23:09.388 --> 00:23:10.722 align:center
He didn't invite none of us.

00:23:10.806 --> 00:23:13.141 align:center
Okay, hold on. None of us.

00:23:13.225 --> 00:23:15.435 align:center
Oh, uh, Pumpkin was there.

00:23:16.186 --> 00:23:19.314 align:center
I knew Lamar as a friend
since he was 9 years old.

00:23:19.398 --> 00:23:20.524 align:center
I'm five years older.

00:23:20.607 --> 00:23:23.235 align:center
So I was like a big brother
that he didn't have.

00:23:23.318 --> 00:23:25.487 align:center
So I wound up
going to the wedding that night.

00:23:25.570 --> 00:23:27.489 align:center
He came and talked to me for two hours.

00:23:28.281 --> 00:23:31.284 align:center
He was explaining, like,
the moves that he's doing.

00:23:31.368 --> 00:23:36.164 align:center
He was doing it
to try to better his future.

00:23:36.248 --> 00:23:38.166 align:center
Now I'm already Lamar Odom,

00:23:38.250 --> 00:23:41.002 align:center
and I'm just watching
how she live and their lifestyle.

00:23:41.086 --> 00:23:44.172 align:center
I'm like,
"I know this is where I wanna be."

00:23:44.714 --> 00:23:46.675 align:center
Like, "This is how I wanna live."

00:23:48.552 --> 00:23:51.429 align:center
They know mad people.
They got mad connections.

00:23:52.347 --> 00:23:57.227 align:center
And then 75, 80% of the guests
was 60 to 70 year old.

00:23:57.811 --> 00:24:01.148 align:center
So I'm sitting there saying,
"Where is this coming from?"

00:24:01.231 --> 00:24:03.942 align:center
I think he did it
because he probably thought I would say,

00:24:04.860 --> 00:24:06.862 align:center
"I wanna say something."

00:24:06.945 --> 00:24:09.364 align:center
Yeah, I think that was like
a power trip for me

00:24:09.447 --> 00:24:11.700 align:center
'cause you took the power that I had,

00:24:11.783 --> 00:24:13.243 align:center
and then Kardashian power.

00:24:13.326 --> 00:24:14.703 align:center
When you add 'em…

00:24:14.786 --> 00:24:18.290 align:center
Because of your desire
to build a marriage for the ages,

00:24:18.373 --> 00:24:22.836 align:center
from this day forward,
you are husband and wife.

00:24:24.713 --> 00:24:27.174 align:center
But I wasn't really ready
for all that power.

00:24:28.383 --> 00:24:30.552 align:center
Lamar loves a camera.

00:24:30.635 --> 00:24:35.098 align:center
I remember I had a photo shoot,
and I remember saying,

00:24:35.182 --> 00:24:37.434 align:center
"We can hang out,
but then you have to leave

00:24:37.517 --> 00:24:40.937 align:center
'cause the camera crew's coming,
and we're gonna film a little bit later."

00:24:41.021 --> 00:24:43.356 align:center
He was like, "Why do I have to leave?"

00:24:53.575 --> 00:24:58.163 align:center
Someone was a genius.
Reality TV, whoever brought that up…

00:24:58.997 --> 00:25:01.666 align:center
Trickery, foolery.

00:25:02.250 --> 00:25:04.336 align:center
Henry Long Neck.

00:25:04.419 --> 00:25:05.462 align:center
Lamar!

00:25:05.545 --> 00:25:08.215 align:center
Khloé & Lamar was not my idea.

00:25:08.298 --> 00:25:11.593 align:center
Khloé & Lamar was led very much by Lamar.

00:25:11.676 --> 00:25:13.094 align:center
Take me to the casbah.

00:25:13.178 --> 00:25:15.305 align:center
I don't know what that means
when you say it.

00:25:15.388 --> 00:25:17.557 align:center
I was spread really thin.

00:25:17.641 --> 00:25:21.436 align:center
I also didn't really want it
to jeopardize the family brand,

00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:23.271 align:center
which was Keeping Up at the time.

00:25:23.355 --> 00:25:26.441 align:center
I thought there was
so many Kardashian shows.

00:25:26.524 --> 00:25:31.780 align:center
And I reminded him
about his main career, uh, the Lakers,

00:25:31.863 --> 00:25:34.074 align:center
and just said,
"Are you sure you wanna do it?"

00:25:34.157 --> 00:25:37.994 align:center
**** Queens, this is California.
In California, we push people.

00:25:38.078 --> 00:25:39.871 align:center
Oh, she is on one today.

00:25:39.955 --> 00:25:41.873 align:center
We wound up having our own show,

00:25:41.957 --> 00:25:44.376 align:center
and it came on Sundays,

00:25:44.459 --> 00:25:46.169 align:center
which was right after the Laker game.

00:25:46.253 --> 00:25:48.922 align:center
I was on TV twice every Sunday.

00:25:49.005 --> 00:25:51.383 align:center
-Wait, Lamar. This is very uncomfortable.
-I'm sorry.

00:25:51.466 --> 00:25:56.638 align:center
Like, he did love Khloé, but he'd wanted
to be on reality TV for a long time.

00:25:58.557 --> 00:25:59.683 align:center
What the ****?

00:26:00.267 --> 00:26:03.395 align:center
Well, part of the deal was that,
"If I'm gonna marry you, fuck it."

00:26:03.478 --> 00:26:04.771 align:center
"I want in too."

00:26:04.854 --> 00:26:06.439 align:center
I like that.

00:26:07.023 --> 00:26:09.192 align:center
Let's go, CK!

00:26:09.776 --> 00:26:14.364 align:center
He wanted a different life
outside of basketball.

00:26:14.447 --> 00:26:15.615 align:center
Try it again.

00:26:16.157 --> 00:26:18.743 align:center
Back-to-back threes, Lamar Odom.

00:26:18.827 --> 00:26:21.705 align:center
The gag is,
I used to watch The Kardashians.

00:26:21.788 --> 00:26:25.250 align:center
-We should have a picnic one day.
-Oh, let's. It'll be so romantical.

00:26:25.333 --> 00:26:28.503 align:center
With my family show,
I bounce around to different homes,

00:26:28.587 --> 00:26:30.297 align:center
and it's not under a microscope.

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:33.341 align:center
So I was a little concerned
about a reality show

00:26:33.425 --> 00:26:36.011 align:center
that was gonna be
in our home all the time.

00:26:36.094 --> 00:26:40.015 align:center
But I wanted to do what made him happy,
and he was so excited about it.

00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:45.186 align:center
I can tell the difference of an NBA fan
or someone that knows me as Lammy.

00:26:45.270 --> 00:26:46.104 align:center
Mr. Lammy.

00:26:46.688 --> 00:26:50.442 align:center
They used to call me on the show,
which is kind of cool, but it's weird.

00:26:50.525 --> 00:26:52.110 align:center
-One!
-Kiss!

00:26:52.193 --> 00:26:54.321 align:center
-Go on!
-Just one!

00:26:54.404 --> 00:26:58.325 align:center
And then honestly, if I'm gonna be honest,
when he was married to Khloé,

00:26:58.408 --> 00:27:00.577 align:center
I looked forward
to Christmas 'cause I was like,

00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:02.996 align:center
"Kris and Khloé
are gonna give me good presents."

00:27:03.621 --> 00:27:05.081 align:center
Hey, Khloé!

00:27:05.874 --> 00:27:08.793 align:center
When Odom plays his best,
they're almost unbeatable.

00:27:08.877 --> 00:27:10.712 align:center
Bryant to Odom. Odom…

00:27:10.795 --> 00:27:13.631 align:center
Throws it down! And a foul.

00:27:13.715 --> 00:27:14.591 align:center
Lamar!

00:27:14.674 --> 00:27:18.595 align:center
The Laker games at this era,
it was the center of the universe.

00:27:18.678 --> 00:27:21.431 align:center
Goes behind the back! Are you kidding me?!

00:27:21.514 --> 00:27:24.142 align:center
All of LA was at these games.

00:27:24.225 --> 00:27:27.270 align:center
Odom, a drive. Pretty move, Lamar Odom.

00:27:27.354 --> 00:27:29.939 align:center
Stepping in rhythm, knocking down Js.

00:27:30.023 --> 00:27:31.483 align:center
The Lamar Odom show.

00:27:31.566 --> 00:27:36.863 align:center
I'm like, okay, last year, I have no idea
what even dribbling a basketball meant.

00:27:36.946 --> 00:27:39.824 align:center
Introducing a one-of-a-kind
unisex fragrance,

00:27:39.908 --> 00:27:41.951 align:center
Unbreakable, by Khloé and Lamar.

00:27:42.035 --> 00:27:46.414 align:center
I mean, it was the coolest,
coolest time in my life, it really was.

00:27:46.498 --> 00:27:49.250 align:center
I could definitely
see a switch in my lifestyle.

00:27:49.334 --> 00:27:53.588 align:center
You're talking about if a red carpet
is rolled out for you as an individual,

00:27:54.172 --> 00:27:56.132 align:center
now we get the satin carpet.

00:27:56.216 --> 00:27:59.135 align:center
Happy birthday to you

00:27:59.219 --> 00:28:02.972 align:center
I think they helped me kind of
step into who I am a little bit more.

00:28:03.056 --> 00:28:05.225 align:center
You’re on more commercials than Tiger,

00:28:05.308 --> 00:28:07.143 align:center
and I do believe…

00:28:07.227 --> 00:28:10.271 align:center
Wait, and I believe
you also have a better marriage.

00:28:10.939 --> 00:28:13.650 align:center
We're both living
the rock star kind of lifestyle.

00:28:13.733 --> 00:28:16.486 align:center
I think we drove Kobe crazy, by the way.

00:28:16.569 --> 00:28:19.823 align:center
I'm rapping, Lamar's doing reality shows,

00:28:19.906 --> 00:28:21.241 align:center
but we came to practice.

00:28:23.535 --> 00:28:25.453 align:center
Breathe through your nose.

00:28:27.163 --> 00:28:28.706 align:center
Let the breath out.

00:28:31.292 --> 00:28:34.254 align:center
I was, like,
I won't say oblivious to it, but like,

00:28:34.337 --> 00:28:36.089 align:center
no, we have too strong a bond here.

00:28:36.172 --> 00:28:39.509 align:center
We're quiet in here.
We're kind of centered in here.

00:28:40.468 --> 00:28:43.346 align:center
This is stronger
than that outside noise is.

00:28:45.473 --> 00:28:46.558 align:center
And it worked.

00:28:47.142 --> 00:28:49.436 align:center
Odom to Gasol, back to Odom.

00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:51.146 align:center
Up and under, and nice! They're in.

00:28:51.229 --> 00:28:54.399 align:center
Lamar Odom emerging
with big plays here in the second half.

00:28:55.275 --> 00:29:00.113 align:center
The Los Angeles Lakers
are world champions of basketball.

00:29:02.490 --> 00:29:05.034 align:center
We're an hour away
from the beginning of the parade

00:29:05.118 --> 00:29:09.080 align:center
as it commences at Staples Center
and winds its way down Figueroa.

00:29:09.164 --> 00:29:11.916 align:center
I remember when he won
the first championship.

00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.462 align:center
We wanted to go to the parade
and celebrate that moment with him,

00:29:15.545 --> 00:29:17.297 align:center
and be a part of it.

00:29:17.380 --> 00:29:20.925 align:center
The parade route,
that is lined with exuberant Laker fans,

00:29:21.009 --> 00:29:24.012 align:center
and we've got it all for you
live throughout the entire morning.

00:29:24.095 --> 00:29:27.223 align:center
They missed school that day.
They told me, they told their classmates,

00:29:27.307 --> 00:29:30.310 align:center
"We won't be here tomorrow.
We're going to the parade."

00:29:30.393 --> 00:29:32.729 align:center
They drove to Manhattan Beach,
to Lamar's place.

00:29:32.812 --> 00:29:35.857 align:center
They called me, "He's not answering,
but I know he's in there."

00:29:35.940 --> 00:29:38.735 align:center
We were knocking on the door,
and there was nothing.

00:29:38.818 --> 00:29:39.986 align:center
It was just silence.

00:29:40.069 --> 00:29:42.363 align:center
Kobe Bean Bryant and family.

00:29:42.447 --> 00:29:44.407 align:center
There he is and a huge ovation.

00:29:44.491 --> 00:29:46.034 align:center
What a day for LA, though.

00:29:46.117 --> 00:29:48.745 align:center
One of his friends
ended up calling and saying,

00:29:48.828 --> 00:29:53.249 align:center
"Look, Lamar's here, but like,
you know, he partied last night

00:29:53.333 --> 00:29:56.377 align:center
and, like, he doesn't want
the kids to see him like this."

00:29:56.461 --> 00:29:57.879 align:center
"He's not going to the parade."

00:30:00.548 --> 00:30:02.133 align:center
We ended up watching it on TV.

00:30:03.468 --> 00:30:07.263 align:center
And, um, his trainer at the time
got his butt up, and they were like,

00:30:07.347 --> 00:30:09.349 align:center
"Go to the parade. You cannot not show."

00:30:10.016 --> 00:30:13.311 align:center
LO, as we take a look
at Lamar Odom coming onto the bus.

00:30:13.394 --> 00:30:17.273 align:center
And just wanting to win a championship
and get that stigma off of his back.

00:30:17.357 --> 00:30:19.067 align:center
What a great year for LO.

00:30:20.151 --> 00:30:22.028 align:center
He was on the float with his trainer,

00:30:22.111 --> 00:30:23.738 align:center
and my kids were watching, like,

00:30:23.822 --> 00:30:25.532 align:center
"Wow, he ended up going."

00:30:27.742 --> 00:30:30.495 align:center
And it was just, yeah,
they were so devastated.

00:30:30.578 --> 00:30:32.872 align:center
Um, it was terrible.

00:30:35.625 --> 00:30:38.294 align:center
Lamar, man, first of all,
how was that ride down here?

00:30:38.378 --> 00:30:41.506 align:center
-What's the scene look like to you?
-Amazing. Incredible.

00:30:41.589 --> 00:30:44.342 align:center
Never thought this day
would come. It's beautiful.

00:30:44.425 --> 00:30:48.763 align:center
We always talk
about good people, hearts of gold.

00:30:49.347 --> 00:30:54.143 align:center
No one is better than LO, Lamar Odom.

00:30:57.564 --> 00:30:59.732 align:center
Rejection from a parent is…

00:30:59.816 --> 00:31:01.985 align:center
It's extremely hard and hurtful,

00:31:02.068 --> 00:31:05.488 align:center
and it definitely pains
your development growing up.

00:31:06.948 --> 00:31:09.617 align:center
There's some moments
that, like, you never forget.

00:31:09.701 --> 00:31:13.913 align:center
Well, now I know that, like,
he was partying and using.

00:31:18.209 --> 00:31:21.129 align:center
That first hit of cocaine that I took was

00:31:21.212 --> 00:31:23.089 align:center
amazing.

00:31:23.172 --> 00:31:25.800 align:center
I was with a woman,
she was with her husband.

00:31:25.884 --> 00:31:27.677 align:center
It was in Miami.

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:30.138 align:center
You know what I mean?

00:31:30.221 --> 00:31:32.974 align:center
Do I regret it? I mean, fuck yeah.

00:31:33.558 --> 00:31:36.978 align:center
Yeah, some people regret
some of their best moments in life.

00:31:41.399 --> 00:31:42.775 align:center
I mean, it was a high--

00:31:42.859 --> 00:31:46.112 align:center
I know cocaine is not the way to go,
but it's a high that feels so good.

00:31:46.195 --> 00:31:49.949 align:center
You wish you can capture it
and put it in a bottle so you can take it…

00:31:50.033 --> 00:31:52.410 align:center
So you can have it the next day.

00:31:52.493 --> 00:31:55.246 align:center
But it don't work like that with drugs.

00:31:56.623 --> 00:32:00.043 align:center
But then you're at the age too where
if I use cocaine for a month straight

00:32:00.126 --> 00:32:04.547 align:center
and then I stop and then,
you know, work out and eat,

00:32:04.631 --> 00:32:05.882 align:center
I can get my physique back.

00:32:06.883 --> 00:32:08.927 align:center
Well, he's a team player.
Extremely unselfish.

00:32:09.010 --> 00:32:11.179 align:center
And I think that's a true
mark of a champion.

00:32:11.262 --> 00:32:15.808 align:center
He's the best sixth man in the league,
and beyond well deserving of the award.

00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.604 align:center
To my family, my wife, my mother-in-law,

00:32:19.687 --> 00:32:22.148 align:center
and, you know, my teammates,

00:32:22.231 --> 00:32:24.525 align:center
it's been a long time coming.

00:32:25.109 --> 00:32:28.029 align:center
You know what I'm saying?
I've learned so much

00:32:28.112 --> 00:32:30.365 align:center
from, you know,
the dudes in my locker room.

00:32:31.366 --> 00:32:32.617 align:center
I'm blessed.

00:32:32.700 --> 00:32:34.369 align:center
And, uh, you know,

00:32:34.452 --> 00:32:39.082 align:center
there's a couple of people here I wish
that was here to see it, you know?

00:32:42.168 --> 00:32:43.252 align:center
But…

00:32:44.337 --> 00:32:47.256 align:center
I just wanna let y'all know
I'm thankful, man.

00:32:50.510 --> 00:32:54.347 align:center
At the beginning,
it was a recreational party use, sure.

00:32:54.430 --> 00:32:58.184 align:center
But it just, it seemed,
as silly as this sounds,

00:32:58.267 --> 00:33:01.145 align:center
it seemed responsibly done.

00:33:02.438 --> 00:33:05.191 align:center
And I think it was two years in,

00:33:05.274 --> 00:33:09.529 align:center
around June, he disappeared.

00:33:09.612 --> 00:33:11.864 align:center
I really thought
maybe something happened to him.

00:33:11.948 --> 00:33:15.493 align:center
I remember calling anyone
and everyone trying to find him.

00:33:15.576 --> 00:33:17.787 align:center
When he did come home, he…

00:33:17.870 --> 00:33:20.081 align:center
I don't wanna say blamed a lot,

00:33:20.164 --> 00:33:23.835 align:center
but his reasoning for why this happened
was because of Jayden's passing,

00:33:23.918 --> 00:33:26.421 align:center
and June is so hard for him.

00:33:26.504 --> 00:33:29.048 align:center
And that was the first time I was like,

00:33:29.132 --> 00:33:31.342 align:center
"Okay, this is something
I've never experienced."

00:33:31.426 --> 00:33:36.264 align:center
"This is a dark situation,
and I don't know what to do."

00:33:39.350 --> 00:33:41.144 align:center
There was the championship parade,

00:33:41.227 --> 00:33:43.521 align:center
where you and the kids
all were gonna go together,

00:33:43.604 --> 00:33:45.523 align:center
but then you wound up going alone.

00:33:45.606 --> 00:33:46.649 align:center
Do you remember that?

00:33:46.733 --> 00:33:48.317 align:center
I can't say I do.

00:33:48.401 --> 00:33:53.239 align:center
But, you know, when you're on drugs,
there's always gonna be embarrassment.

00:33:54.407 --> 00:33:56.784 align:center
Especially when
you're caught in your addiction.

00:33:57.994 --> 00:34:00.913 align:center
I'm pretty sure there's
a lot more stories that I can't remember

00:34:00.997 --> 00:34:04.751 align:center
because of where I was at,
at that time in my life.

00:34:06.919 --> 00:34:09.380 align:center
A lot of people do drugs
and they have the best

00:34:09.464 --> 00:34:11.716 align:center
15-minute high of their life,

00:34:11.799 --> 00:34:17.680 align:center
and they can wait to do it next Friday
or a week after they did it.

00:34:17.764 --> 00:34:19.974 align:center
And some people, you do it,

00:34:20.058 --> 00:34:23.853 align:center
you unlock a vault
that you can't really control.

00:34:27.231 --> 00:34:32.403 align:center
I think this is where he felt
his dark side started to come.

00:34:32.487 --> 00:34:35.448 align:center
He lost track of what reality was in life.

00:34:35.531 --> 00:34:37.492 align:center
But he's in this bubble with this thing.

00:34:38.576 --> 00:34:40.578 align:center
-Come on.
-They love you.

00:34:43.581 --> 00:34:45.500 align:center
Khloé! Talk to TMZ!

00:34:45.583 --> 00:34:47.668 align:center
I remember even in high school,

00:34:48.252 --> 00:34:51.255 align:center
first report card, ninth-grade year,

00:34:51.339 --> 00:34:52.924 align:center
I failed four classes.

00:34:53.716 --> 00:34:55.676 align:center
And there wasn't a, um…

00:34:56.886 --> 00:34:58.221 align:center
…like a repercussion.

00:34:59.931 --> 00:35:01.390 align:center
And it didn't get no better.

00:35:03.893 --> 00:35:08.272 align:center
I don't know, like, when I think about it,
like cheating on my wife.

00:35:08.356 --> 00:35:12.527 align:center
Like, how sick would your brain
have to be if-- You know who you are.

00:35:13.277 --> 00:35:16.447 align:center
What the fuck would make you think
you would marry this woman on TV

00:35:17.031 --> 00:35:21.077 align:center
and then go have affairs?

00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:22.870 align:center
-They all keep hatin'.
-Unbreakable.

00:35:22.954 --> 00:35:25.915 align:center
-I'ma keep makin'.
-Makin'.

00:35:25.998 --> 00:35:27.041 align:center
And, uh…

00:35:28.042 --> 00:35:29.794 align:center
Khloé's outta town.

00:35:30.670 --> 00:35:32.964 align:center
I guess I still be on the DL.

00:35:33.047 --> 00:35:35.091 align:center
He had said to me one time,

00:35:35.174 --> 00:35:38.094 align:center
"I'll be partying with people
that could party for six months

00:35:38.177 --> 00:35:39.887 align:center
then go to work."

00:35:39.971 --> 00:35:42.557 align:center
And I'm sitting there saying,
"What crowd you around now?"

00:35:44.142 --> 00:35:48.396 align:center
I can remember one night
going to Big Bear,

00:35:48.479 --> 00:35:52.650 align:center
and I'm getting high
outta my fucking mind.

00:35:53.776 --> 00:35:56.737 align:center
The girl that I was with at the time,

00:35:56.821 --> 00:35:59.365 align:center
she must've been so blown back by it

00:35:59.448 --> 00:36:04.579 align:center
that she must've took my phone
and contacted my wife.

00:36:04.662 --> 00:36:08.499 align:center
I'm calling him again.
He's missing. I can't find him.

00:36:08.583 --> 00:36:12.128 align:center
And then out of the blue,
I get this call, and I'm like, "Hello."

00:36:12.211 --> 00:36:14.922 align:center
And she's like,
"Hi, I've been fucking your husband."

00:36:15.006 --> 00:36:17.258 align:center
"He is so fucked up,

00:36:17.341 --> 00:36:19.552 align:center
and he just keeps
wanting money and drugs."

00:36:19.635 --> 00:36:23.347 align:center
"And I gotta get off this ride.
So will you come and pick him up?"

00:36:23.431 --> 00:36:26.934 align:center
"I called your mom a bit ago because
I didn't know if I should call you."

00:36:28.644 --> 00:36:32.273 align:center
I never knew for sure
that he was sleeping with other people.

00:36:32.356 --> 00:36:36.152 align:center
Of course, I had suspicions,
but I never had anything tangible.

00:36:36.736 --> 00:36:40.948 align:center
I can remember me
taking a big line of cocaine.

00:36:42.325 --> 00:36:44.368 align:center
And all I hear is,

00:36:44.452 --> 00:36:48.539 align:center
"Lammy!" And I see Kris Jenner's face

00:36:48.623 --> 00:36:52.043 align:center
come around the, um…

00:36:52.126 --> 00:36:53.211 align:center
…the doorway.

00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.885 align:center
It became, um, craziest when,

00:37:00.968 --> 00:37:04.221 align:center
like, the word
out in the streets hit, like,

00:37:04.305 --> 00:37:06.432 align:center
"Lamar's a cokehead," or "He does coke."

00:37:06.515 --> 00:37:10.311 align:center
It became a nuisance when
they wanted to find me doing something

00:37:10.394 --> 00:37:11.562 align:center
I wasn't supposed to do.

00:37:13.439 --> 00:37:15.441 align:center
-You don't have a problem?
-No.

00:37:15.524 --> 00:37:16.359 align:center
No?

00:37:16.442 --> 00:37:18.361 align:center
-No.
-You need professional help?

00:37:18.444 --> 00:37:19.654 align:center
-No.
-Okay.

00:37:19.737 --> 00:37:20.947 align:center
Have you spoken to Khloé?

00:37:21.030 --> 00:37:22.365 align:center
Of course! That's my wife.

00:37:22.448 --> 00:37:24.408 align:center
All right. So you've spoken to her?

00:37:24.492 --> 00:37:25.952 align:center
Of course.

00:37:26.827 --> 00:37:29.538 align:center
If you could go back,
and you had the timeline

00:37:29.622 --> 00:37:31.916 align:center
of these dates
and important events in his life,

00:37:31.999 --> 00:37:34.752 align:center
and you go all the way back,
he had no foundation.

00:37:34.835 --> 00:37:37.630 align:center
And then you get married
and all the pressure of it,

00:37:37.713 --> 00:37:42.176 align:center
and then you're on a championship team,
and you can't keep up a facade anymore.

00:37:42.259 --> 00:37:43.886 align:center
It's all gonna crash.

00:37:47.348 --> 00:37:50.726 align:center
Don't antagonize me.
You just told him, don't run me over.

00:37:50.810 --> 00:37:52.645 align:center
Now you're trying to antagonize me.

00:37:53.229 --> 00:37:56.357 align:center
You wonder where your dad is.
Where is he at? What is he doing?

00:37:56.941 --> 00:37:58.234 align:center
Obviously, I miss him.

00:37:58.317 --> 00:38:01.404 align:center
You know, I wanna see him.
But, you know, he wasn't there.

00:38:02.571 --> 00:38:04.115 align:center
All these things were happening.

00:38:04.198 --> 00:38:06.450 align:center
The drug buildup
was getting worse and worse.

00:38:06.534 --> 00:38:09.996 align:center
And then there were many times
Lamar would go for 12 hours or two days

00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:11.872 align:center
and escape rehab, go on a drug bender,

00:38:11.956 --> 00:38:14.583 align:center
and no one could find him and whatever.

00:38:15.751 --> 00:38:19.630 align:center
I was either looking for him in alleys,
looking for him in motels.

00:38:19.714 --> 00:38:22.967 align:center
He would have tinfoil cutouts or spoons,
and freebasing things,

00:38:23.050 --> 00:38:24.468 align:center
and leaving things everywhere.

00:38:24.552 --> 00:38:29.015 align:center
I remember needing to go
to hotel rooms to clean up after him,

00:38:29.098 --> 00:38:31.183 align:center
so the housekeeping didn't sell a story.

00:38:31.934 --> 00:38:35.563 align:center
I was such an enabler
without knowing I was an enabler.

00:38:35.646 --> 00:38:39.900 align:center
But I just felt
such a responsibility to cover this up,

00:38:39.984 --> 00:38:41.736 align:center
hold it together, and protect him.

00:38:43.988 --> 00:38:50.369 align:center
Being an addict to sex or drugs,
it don't have no race, color, or creed.

00:38:51.662 --> 00:38:53.748 align:center
What's done in the dark
comes out in the light.

00:38:54.623 --> 00:38:56.917 align:center
Another thing
my grandmother always told me.

00:38:58.002 --> 00:38:59.420 align:center
What happened?

00:38:59.503 --> 00:39:01.255 align:center
I don't believe in what y'all do.

00:39:01.339 --> 00:39:04.633 align:center
Feel what I'm saying? I don't believe
in following people around.

00:39:04.717 --> 00:39:06.218 align:center
Me and that girl fell in love.

00:39:06.302 --> 00:39:08.888 align:center
If we wanna give you it,
if we wanna let you in our house,

00:39:08.971 --> 00:39:10.097 align:center
we can let you in.

00:39:10.181 --> 00:39:12.683 align:center
And ****, we can kick you out
at the same time.

00:39:12.767 --> 00:39:16.103 align:center
When I really discovered
that there was a problem, he was like,

00:39:16.187 --> 00:39:18.564 align:center
"You cannot tell anyone.
I'll lose it all."

00:39:18.647 --> 00:39:21.817 align:center
"If I lose it, where are we gonna live?
What are we gonna do?"

00:39:21.901 --> 00:39:24.236 align:center
And at the time, I was 24.

00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.280 align:center
I'm still trying to figure out my life.

00:39:26.364 --> 00:39:29.950 align:center
I had the show, but we weren't,
like, making money like that.

00:39:30.826 --> 00:39:35.414 align:center
I remember just keeping all these secrets
and feeling horrible about myself.

00:39:35.998 --> 00:39:38.167 align:center
I think youth had a lot to play with it.

00:39:38.250 --> 00:39:40.878 align:center
My first real love.

00:39:40.961 --> 00:39:42.755 align:center
And then you just feel for this person,

00:39:42.838 --> 00:39:44.423 align:center
and then you sorta rationalize,

00:39:44.507 --> 00:39:48.719 align:center
"Well, this person died, and this person,
and my dad's a heroin addict."

00:39:48.803 --> 00:39:50.137 align:center
"Of course you're like this."

00:39:50.221 --> 00:39:54.475 align:center
"Now let me try to fix you and show you,
if I love you enough,

00:39:54.558 --> 00:39:55.851 align:center
I'm gonna make you better."

00:39:56.435 --> 00:40:00.189 align:center
But I was fighting every single day,

00:40:00.272 --> 00:40:03.984 align:center
either to protect him,
to not let him get caught,

00:40:04.068 --> 00:40:05.486 align:center
which sounds insane,

00:40:05.569 --> 00:40:08.114 align:center
to make sure his image, how he looked,

00:40:08.197 --> 00:40:10.491 align:center
how he presented himself
to the outwardly world

00:40:10.574 --> 00:40:13.369 align:center
was still that Lamar Odom.

00:40:13.452 --> 00:40:14.829 align:center
I didn't sleep for years.

00:40:15.830 --> 00:40:17.915 align:center
I had an enormous
amount of power in the city.

00:40:17.998 --> 00:40:20.209 align:center
My wife was just as popular as I was.

00:40:20.751 --> 00:40:22.044 align:center
I was the shit.

00:40:22.837 --> 00:40:25.464 align:center
Then everything just changed.

00:40:26.465 --> 00:40:30.386 align:center
I remember he was driving
to the Laker facility to go to practice,

00:40:30.469 --> 00:40:32.430 align:center
and he was listening to the radio.

00:40:32.513 --> 00:40:37.101 align:center
Lamar, it's being reported
that you're about to be traded to Dallas.

00:40:37.184 --> 00:40:39.603 align:center
He was like, "How does the radio know?"

00:40:39.687 --> 00:40:41.981 align:center
"I've given you guys so much,

00:40:42.064 --> 00:40:47.570 align:center
and I'm finding out this way that
I'm being just traded somewhere else?"

00:40:47.653 --> 00:40:50.573 align:center
It sort of started spiraling
a lot from there.

00:40:50.656 --> 00:40:53.576 align:center
I would think
that I wouldn't be treated like a number.

00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:56.871 align:center
I thought I was gonna be here
the rest of, you know, my whole life.

00:40:56.954 --> 00:41:00.040 align:center
And I don't know, I think maybe
I rubbed people the wrong way.

00:41:00.124 --> 00:41:02.251 align:center
Maybe with doing the show.

00:41:02.334 --> 00:41:04.670 align:center
I found my wife in LA, my family.

00:41:04.753 --> 00:41:06.964 align:center
LA is a part of me.

00:41:07.047 --> 00:41:09.550 align:center
It's still hard to see one of my friends,

00:41:09.633 --> 00:41:10.801 align:center
and one of our great players,

00:41:10.885 --> 00:41:13.137 align:center
go somewhere seemingly for nothing.

00:41:13.220 --> 00:41:15.139 align:center
Whether they have something else going on,

00:41:15.222 --> 00:41:18.767 align:center
you know, that's on them to decide,
but it's tough, man.

00:41:18.851 --> 00:41:19.810 align:center
It's tough.

00:41:19.894 --> 00:41:22.271 align:center
First time basketball's felt like a job.

00:41:22.354 --> 00:41:24.231 align:center
Like, you know what I mean?

00:41:24.315 --> 00:41:30.821 align:center
The drug use that transpired
from the Dallas trade was monstrous.

00:41:31.906 --> 00:41:34.408 align:center
When you learned
that the Lakers had traded you,

00:41:34.491 --> 00:41:37.578 align:center
what was your immediate thought then?

00:41:37.661 --> 00:41:38.996 align:center
I was surprised.

00:41:39.580 --> 00:41:40.706 align:center
Um…

00:41:40.789 --> 00:41:44.502 align:center
I was surprised just because
I didn't hear anything.

00:41:44.585 --> 00:41:47.630 align:center
But, um, I mean,
I couldn't have landed in a more…

00:41:47.713 --> 00:41:50.382 align:center
You know, in a, in a…

00:41:50.466 --> 00:41:52.134 align:center
Just in a great situation.

00:41:52.718 --> 00:41:55.471 align:center
I've just never seen
so many drugs in such a dark spot.

00:41:55.554 --> 00:41:59.058 align:center
Just such a dark aura around us.

00:41:59.141 --> 00:42:01.477 align:center
They weren't testing
for certain painkillers,

00:42:01.560 --> 00:42:03.687 align:center
and he knew which ones they weren't,

00:42:03.771 --> 00:42:06.899 align:center
and he was freebasing painkillers.

00:42:08.609 --> 00:42:11.695 align:center
Right before Christmas, because I remember
I had a gingerbread house.

00:42:11.779 --> 00:42:14.740 align:center
I tried to make it so cute in this hotel.

00:42:14.823 --> 00:42:20.037 align:center
He was locked in the hotel bathroom
for maybe four days just doing drugs.

00:42:20.120 --> 00:42:22.581 align:center
Has no concept of time. Miserable.

00:42:22.665 --> 00:42:27.044 align:center
He would, I think, maybe leave
to go and do a practice or whatever.

00:42:27.127 --> 00:42:30.130 align:center
He was horrible because
he was so fucked up and high.

00:42:31.090 --> 00:42:33.968 align:center
This year was a very tough year. We--

00:42:34.051 --> 00:42:36.178 align:center
So the cameras did not affect the career?

00:42:36.262 --> 00:42:37.221 align:center
-No.
-No.

00:42:37.304 --> 00:42:41.308 align:center
He got, I will say,
kicked off of the Mavs.

00:42:41.392 --> 00:42:43.894 align:center
We were only there for a few months.

00:42:45.271 --> 00:42:47.189 align:center
I come back, I'm signed with the Clippers,

00:42:47.273 --> 00:42:48.816 align:center
but now I weigh like 300 pounds.

00:42:49.942 --> 00:42:52.403 align:center
That was the most
embarrassing time of my career,

00:42:52.486 --> 00:42:53.988 align:center
because I was using drugs.

00:42:54.071 --> 00:42:56.824 align:center
Drugs so heavily
I had to check myself into rehab.

00:42:57.533 --> 00:43:01.203 align:center
There are reports
that Lamar Odom is in a Los Angeles hotel,

00:43:01.287 --> 00:43:05.082 align:center
where friends are trying to get him help
for an unspecified drug problem.

00:43:05.165 --> 00:43:10.462 align:center
Whenever the Clippers season ended,
he spiraled again and did crazy drugs.

00:43:10.546 --> 00:43:14.258 align:center
How do you go from Sixth Man of the Year
to averaging six points a game?

00:43:14.341 --> 00:43:16.760 align:center
I say, "'Cause he don't wanna be there.
He's miserable."

00:43:16.844 --> 00:43:19.888 align:center
He overdosed a few times.
I had to pump his stomach.

00:43:19.972 --> 00:43:23.392 align:center
All privately get him to…
We had at-home detox centers.

00:43:23.475 --> 00:43:25.019 align:center
We did everything we could.

00:43:25.102 --> 00:43:28.022 align:center
Are the rumors true
that you're addicted to crack cocaine?

00:43:28.981 --> 00:43:30.733 align:center
-That's my camera!
-Shut up.

00:43:30.816 --> 00:43:32.067 align:center
What about Lamar?

00:43:32.151 --> 00:43:34.695 align:center
Do you know he's been on drugs,
or is this news?

00:43:34.778 --> 00:43:35.779 align:center
Have a good day, guys.

00:43:35.863 --> 00:43:39.158 align:center
Last year on my birthday,
I lied to everyone

00:43:39.241 --> 00:43:42.369 align:center
because I had to lie
and say I was with my husband

00:43:42.453 --> 00:43:46.165 align:center
when in fact my husband
was missing with another girl!

00:43:51.712 --> 00:43:54.715 align:center
I was advised to do this intervention.

00:43:54.798 --> 00:43:57.176 align:center
And the interventionist said,

00:43:57.259 --> 00:44:00.929 align:center
"You're gonna go in there and tell him,
'You need to go to rehab,

00:44:01.013 --> 00:44:04.099 align:center
and if you don't stay
for a three-month program,'

00:44:04.183 --> 00:44:06.143 align:center
you're gonna say
you're getting a divorce."

00:44:07.561 --> 00:44:11.940 align:center
Everyone around me was like,
"He'll never say he wants the divorce."

00:44:12.024 --> 00:44:14.151 align:center
We do the intervention.

00:44:14.818 --> 00:44:16.654 align:center
I give my

00:44:16.737 --> 00:44:18.739 align:center
speech.

00:44:18.822 --> 00:44:21.450 align:center
And he was like,
"Okay, all I want is my passport,

00:44:21.533 --> 00:44:23.452 align:center
and, yeah, let's get the fucking divorce."

00:44:24.161 --> 00:44:26.789 align:center
I was, like, looking around like,

00:44:26.872 --> 00:44:29.124 align:center
"Wait. Wait."

00:44:29.208 --> 00:44:31.210 align:center
"I… I don't want the divorce."

00:44:31.293 --> 00:44:34.463 align:center
"You guys told me I have to say this."

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:39.718 align:center
Lamar left immediately, was like,

00:44:39.802 --> 00:44:44.848 align:center
"We're getting the fucking divorce,
and I'm never coming back here again."

00:44:50.312 --> 00:44:52.022 align:center
I signed the divorce papers.

00:44:53.315 --> 00:44:56.193 align:center
And so right when I signed
the divorce papers, I'm like…

00:44:59.530 --> 00:45:00.739 align:center
"I'm gonna get it in."

00:45:01.657 --> 00:45:04.660 align:center
The Bunny Ranch
I used to always see on TV,

00:45:04.743 --> 00:45:07.037 align:center
but I don't have any coke to take.

00:45:07.121 --> 00:45:08.622 align:center
Fuck.

00:45:08.705 --> 00:45:13.961 align:center
Crazy when you think about
one decision so big or so minor,

00:45:14.044 --> 00:45:16.797 align:center
um, could be so pivotal

00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.550 align:center
to you and to the people
that you really love.

00:45:28.851 --> 00:45:32.104 align:center
So you can see how long
it took for us to drive out here

00:45:32.187 --> 00:45:35.524 align:center
and how far this actually is.

00:45:35.607 --> 00:45:38.652 align:center
I haven't been out here in years, uh,

00:45:38.736 --> 00:45:41.947 align:center
and I don't even know
what we're gonna find.

00:45:42.030 --> 00:45:46.577 align:center
But you can see why
we probably questioned initially

00:45:46.660 --> 00:45:49.288 align:center
whether or not this was really Lamar Odom

00:45:49.371 --> 00:45:54.209 align:center
that was contacting these girls
to, um, come out here,

00:45:54.293 --> 00:45:57.004 align:center
given how far removed it is.

00:45:57.087 --> 00:46:01.049 align:center
We just crossed a cattle guard,
if that tells you anything.

00:46:01.133 --> 00:46:03.469 align:center
I'm from Fort Worth, Texas, originally.

00:46:03.552 --> 00:46:07.931 align:center
Worked in radio there
for a number of years.

00:46:08.015 --> 00:46:10.934 align:center
And that's actually
how I came to work at the brothel.

00:46:11.018 --> 00:46:15.939 align:center
Uh, Dennis Hof was a regular guest
on my radio show.

00:46:16.023 --> 00:46:20.194 align:center
Let's welcome back to the show
for the 138,000th time,

00:46:20.277 --> 00:46:21.945 align:center
ladies and gentlemen, Dennis Hof.

00:46:22.029 --> 00:46:23.155 align:center
Dennis, what's going on?

00:46:23.238 --> 00:46:26.033 align:center
Good afternoon, Big Dick. I am so excited.

00:46:26.116 --> 00:46:28.410 align:center
He was the Sam Walton of brothels.

00:46:28.494 --> 00:46:32.122 align:center
He was trying to corner the market
on legal prostitution.

00:46:32.206 --> 00:46:36.460 align:center
I'm buying every brothel I can
and wanna turn it into a public company,

00:46:36.543 --> 00:46:39.546 align:center
and it's gonna be a great,
successful public company.

00:46:39.630 --> 00:46:41.507 align:center
Everybody knows the Bunny Ranch,

00:46:41.590 --> 00:46:44.551 align:center
where the HBO Cathouse series was filmed.

00:46:44.635 --> 00:46:49.598 align:center
But he had bought another,
I think, three up north.

00:46:49.681 --> 00:46:51.517 align:center
But then down here in Southern Nevada,

00:46:51.600 --> 00:46:54.812 align:center
a couple had come up for sale as well,
and he bought the Love Ranch.

00:46:54.895 --> 00:46:57.397 align:center
-What's up?
-Having a good time?

00:46:57.481 --> 00:46:58.398 align:center
Oh man…

00:46:58.482 --> 00:47:00.984 align:center
Sex, it's everywhere, man.
It's in the air.

00:47:01.068 --> 00:47:04.488 align:center
It would tell you a lot
of what you needed to know about Dennis

00:47:04.571 --> 00:47:09.535 align:center
to know that he was a former
time-share condo salesman.

00:47:09.618 --> 00:47:10.911 align:center
He brought a lot of that.

00:47:11.495 --> 00:47:15.249 align:center
Sometimes, the travel
is as good as the destination.

00:47:15.332 --> 00:47:18.335 align:center
The saying is that sex is like a joke.
Some get it, some don't.

00:47:18.418 --> 00:47:19.920 align:center
The ones that don't, come here.

00:47:20.003 --> 00:47:22.965 align:center
As the years progressed,
and his brand got bigger,

00:47:23.048 --> 00:47:26.510 align:center
he needed somebody to manage his media.

00:47:26.593 --> 00:47:32.015 align:center
And that is really what brought me
out here to work with Dennis full-time.

00:47:34.309 --> 00:47:36.979 align:center
Okay, here we are. It's the old sign.

00:47:37.563 --> 00:47:38.897 align:center
And, uh…

00:47:40.774 --> 00:47:43.402 align:center
Guess what?
The whole thing's been torn down.

00:47:47.823 --> 00:47:49.575 align:center
Wow.

00:47:53.620 --> 00:47:56.498 align:center
Well, I can show you where it was.

00:47:59.167 --> 00:48:05.340 align:center
There's a lot of misnomers about
how legal prostitution works in Nevada.

00:48:05.424 --> 00:48:08.594 align:center
The biggest one is that people think

00:48:08.677 --> 00:48:10.762 align:center
prostitution is legal
everywhere in Nevada.

00:48:10.846 --> 00:48:11.763 align:center
It's not.

00:48:13.223 --> 00:48:16.059 align:center
There are some
43 legal brothels in Nevada.

00:48:16.143 --> 00:48:19.146 align:center
However, none of them
in Reno or Las Vegas,

00:48:19.229 --> 00:48:21.481 align:center
where pandering is definitely illegal.

00:48:21.565 --> 00:48:25.319 align:center
It is only legal in counties

00:48:25.402 --> 00:48:29.114 align:center
that have below 300 or 400,000 people.

00:48:29.197 --> 00:48:32.075 align:center
That's why to get to a legal brothel,

00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:35.120 align:center
you have to drive
an hour outside of Las Vegas.

00:48:35.203 --> 00:48:38.665 align:center
At least here you don't go through
all the marriage problems.

00:48:39.458 --> 00:48:44.546 align:center
What you're gonna find
is various levels of quality.

00:48:44.630 --> 00:48:46.798 align:center
There are some nicer places.

00:48:46.882 --> 00:48:49.509 align:center
This is the kitchen. This is the bar.

00:48:49.593 --> 00:48:50.886 align:center
And this is the orgy room.

00:48:50.969 --> 00:48:53.805 align:center
There are also some brothels

00:48:53.889 --> 00:48:57.059 align:center
that really aren't anything more
than a single-wide trailer

00:48:57.142 --> 00:48:59.394 align:center
out in the middle of nowhere

00:48:59.478 --> 00:49:01.104 align:center
you wouldn't want to set foot in.

00:49:03.231 --> 00:49:08.820 align:center
The Love Ranch was a series
of fabricated homes

00:49:08.904 --> 00:49:10.864 align:center
that were linked together.

00:49:10.948 --> 00:49:13.867 align:center
So this was not the lap of luxury.

00:49:15.577 --> 00:49:19.164 align:center
This was the walkway that we just came up.

00:49:19.247 --> 00:49:23.377 align:center
This would've been, like, the patio.
And then the front door was right here.

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:25.587 align:center
-Hello!
-Hey, it's Lola Marks.

00:49:25.671 --> 00:49:28.090 align:center
-Hello.
-And Amber, smokin' Amber.

00:49:28.173 --> 00:49:30.300 align:center
-How are you guys today?
-We're doing good.

00:49:30.384 --> 00:49:32.761 align:center
This whole area was a bar.

00:49:32.844 --> 00:49:35.097 align:center
There was another door
you would come in here.

00:49:35.180 --> 00:49:36.515 align:center
And here's the bar.

00:49:36.598 --> 00:49:38.183 align:center
And here's the bar.

00:49:39.101 --> 00:49:45.148 align:center
And then everything out here
would've been all the modular units

00:49:45.232 --> 00:49:46.900 align:center
connected to each other.

00:49:46.984 --> 00:49:50.946 align:center
I was having breakfast with Larry Flynt
and Jimmy Flynt one morning.

00:49:51.029 --> 00:49:54.449 align:center
Dennis himself, his worth was,

00:49:54.533 --> 00:49:56.326 align:center
"Are you a celebrity?"

00:49:56.410 --> 00:49:59.830 align:center
"Are you acknowledging me?"
And, "How famous are you?"

00:50:00.747 --> 00:50:02.791 align:center
But it was pretty rare

00:50:02.874 --> 00:50:04.835 align:center
that a celebrity,

00:50:05.419 --> 00:50:09.423 align:center
certainly anybody above the D-list,

00:50:09.506 --> 00:50:12.843 align:center
would be actively trying to come out

00:50:12.926 --> 00:50:14.511 align:center
to one of the brothels.

00:50:14.594 --> 00:50:17.806 align:center
This was kind of a myth.
This was something Dennis perpetuated.

00:50:17.889 --> 00:50:20.100 align:center
I've invited President Obama

00:50:20.183 --> 00:50:22.561 align:center
to come to the Bunny Ranch
in a friendly environment.

00:50:22.644 --> 00:50:27.274 align:center
But I don't know that this has been
talked about a lot, or maybe even ever,

00:50:27.357 --> 00:50:31.778 align:center
that Lamar Odom actually
began contacting several of the girls,

00:50:31.862 --> 00:50:33.905 align:center
uh, from the Love Ranch on Instagram.

00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:37.159 align:center
And, you know, it was one of those things
where, yeah, I heard it,

00:50:37.242 --> 00:50:39.995 align:center
but you don't know
if these things are really real.

00:50:40.787 --> 00:50:45.792 align:center
Being a professional athlete,
there's a lot of easier ways to do this,

00:50:45.876 --> 00:50:50.839 align:center
uh, than to drive an hour
outside of the city into the desert,

00:50:50.922 --> 00:50:54.426 align:center
walk into a brothel such as it was,

00:50:54.509 --> 00:50:57.554 align:center
and wanna live there
for a few days, essentially.

00:50:58.555 --> 00:51:00.182 align:center
As the days progressed,

00:51:00.265 --> 00:51:04.770 align:center
I remember that him or one of his handlers

00:51:04.853 --> 00:51:10.734 align:center
or someone actually contacted the brothel
and wanted a car to pick him up.

00:51:10.817 --> 00:51:13.320 align:center
So it definitely became real

00:51:13.403 --> 00:51:16.490 align:center
when he gave us the address
of where he was at,

00:51:16.573 --> 00:51:20.786 align:center
the car went and picked him up,
and the driver called the Love Ranch

00:51:20.869 --> 00:51:23.080 align:center
and said,
"Yep, it's him, and we're in the car,

00:51:23.163 --> 00:51:25.457 align:center
and we're on the way back out there."

00:51:28.126 --> 00:51:30.712 align:center
When you think about
pivotal memories in your past,

00:51:30.796 --> 00:51:33.548 align:center
it is weird to get definitive confirmation

00:51:33.632 --> 00:51:37.928 align:center
that one of those locations
has been completely erased from existence.

00:51:41.473 --> 00:51:43.934 align:center
911, where is your emergency?

00:51:44.017 --> 00:51:45.852 align:center
We need an ambulance.

00:51:45.936 --> 00:51:47.437 align:center
It was early in the week.

00:51:47.521 --> 00:51:49.689 align:center
A Monday or Tuesday
or something like that.

00:51:49.773 --> 00:51:50.732 align:center
Very slow day.

00:51:51.900 --> 00:51:55.695 align:center
The Love Ranch had, like,
a separate house behind the brothel.

00:51:56.488 --> 00:51:58.115 align:center
If you were spending enough money,

00:51:58.198 --> 00:51:59.449 align:center
we'd put you in that house.

00:51:59.533 --> 00:52:01.785 align:center
And I knew Lamar was there.

00:52:01.868 --> 00:52:05.497 align:center
He'd been there for, I think,
the last two days at that point.

00:52:05.580 --> 00:52:08.166 align:center
So I'm sitting at my desk, I'm working,

00:52:08.250 --> 00:52:11.253 align:center
and one of the girls that was with him

00:52:11.336 --> 00:52:14.923 align:center
comes running into my office screaming.

00:52:16.091 --> 00:52:19.886 align:center
"Oh my God, Richard, come quick.
Something's happened to Lamar."

00:52:22.305 --> 00:52:25.600 align:center
I run into the room,
it's completely blacked out.

00:52:25.684 --> 00:52:27.769 align:center
All the shades are pulled, everything.

00:52:27.853 --> 00:52:30.564 align:center
The first thing I remember is the sound,

00:52:30.647 --> 00:52:36.570 align:center
because he was snoring so heavily.

00:52:36.653 --> 00:52:38.530 align:center
Like, something was wrong.

00:52:39.114 --> 00:52:41.783 align:center
I said we needed to call 911.

00:52:41.867 --> 00:52:44.744 align:center
I'm at the Love Ranch
at 300 Appaloosa Lane.

00:52:44.828 --> 00:52:46.997 align:center
They said they were
gonna send somebody out,

00:52:47.080 --> 00:52:50.208 align:center
but I just wanted to let them know
that they need to hurry, please.

00:52:50.292 --> 00:52:51.626 align:center
Okay, is he conscious?

00:52:51.710 --> 00:52:52.752 align:center
No.

00:52:54.212 --> 00:52:58.133 align:center
And I'm explaining
to the operator what is going on.

00:52:58.216 --> 00:52:59.926 align:center
What side do you have him turned on?

00:53:00.010 --> 00:53:01.887 align:center
On his right side.

00:53:01.970 --> 00:53:04.890 align:center
Okay,
see if you can get him on his left side.

00:53:04.973 --> 00:53:06.600 align:center
Each one of you grab a leg.

00:53:06.683 --> 00:53:08.476 align:center
I need to move him down on his side.

00:53:08.560 --> 00:53:09.644 align:center
You know, he's a giant.

00:53:09.728 --> 00:53:13.523 align:center
This guy's, like,
seven feet tall and 350 pounds.

00:53:13.607 --> 00:53:14.524 align:center
Huge.

00:53:14.608 --> 00:53:19.738 align:center
When I got him on his side,
he just expelled.

00:53:19.821 --> 00:53:22.449 align:center
Fluid starts coming out of his mouth.

00:53:23.158 --> 00:53:26.953 align:center
He's got some white stuff
coming out of his mouth and nose too.

00:53:27.037 --> 00:53:29.289 align:center
Did he take anything
right before this happened?

00:53:29.372 --> 00:53:33.627 align:center
He had told one of the girls
that he had had some cocaine

00:53:33.710 --> 00:53:35.962 align:center
before he arrived at the brothel.

00:53:36.046 --> 00:53:38.423 align:center
Now that would've been two days prior.

00:53:38.506 --> 00:53:40.884 align:center
The girl that had been with him said,

00:53:40.967 --> 00:53:42.552 align:center
"He also took these,"

00:53:42.636 --> 00:53:44.721 align:center
and she holds up this packet.

00:53:45.305 --> 00:53:47.849 align:center
Something called "Reload"

00:53:47.933 --> 00:53:51.061 align:center
"Sexual performance enhancer for men."

00:53:51.144 --> 00:53:52.562 align:center
And I asked her,

00:53:52.646 --> 00:53:54.648 align:center
"How many of these did he take?"

00:53:54.731 --> 00:53:57.776 align:center
And she said, "Probably 12."

00:53:57.859 --> 00:54:01.404 align:center
And I looked at the package,
and the package said,

00:54:01.488 --> 00:54:04.991 align:center
"Don't take more than one every 24 hours."

00:54:08.161 --> 00:54:11.915 align:center
The EMTs came in the room,
and there was three of 'em.

00:54:11.998 --> 00:54:14.292 align:center
Because of his size,
they weren't gonna be able

00:54:14.376 --> 00:54:16.753 align:center
to get him on the stretcher
to wheel him out.

00:54:16.836 --> 00:54:22.717 align:center
So we had to pull up the fitted sheet
that he was on, on the bed.

00:54:22.801 --> 00:54:24.844 align:center
And each of those
three guys took a corner.

00:54:24.928 --> 00:54:29.599 align:center
And I took the fourth corner,
and we held the sheet like this.

00:54:29.683 --> 00:54:35.272 align:center
And we walked him out of the, uh, suite.

00:54:35.355 --> 00:54:37.565 align:center
And when the sun hit his face,

00:54:37.649 --> 00:54:40.735 align:center
and I had one of the corners
that was up by his head,

00:54:40.819 --> 00:54:46.449 align:center
I looked down at his face,
and I just remember thinking,

00:54:46.533 --> 00:54:49.119 align:center
"This guy may be dead."

00:54:52.455 --> 00:54:55.625 align:center
I remember I called my girlfriend,
and I said,

00:54:56.251 --> 00:54:58.712 align:center
"Everything's okay. With me, anyway."

00:54:58.795 --> 00:55:02.924 align:center
"But I'm at a hospital with Lamar Odom."

00:55:03.008 --> 00:55:08.680 align:center
"He's in the ER, and he is in a bad way."

00:55:08.763 --> 00:55:12.142 align:center
"You're probably going to start
hearing about this on the news."

00:55:12.726 --> 00:55:14.394 align:center
Former Lakers player Lamar Odom

00:55:14.477 --> 00:55:17.063 align:center
is fighting for his life
at Sunrise Hospital.

00:55:17.147 --> 00:55:21.192 align:center
He was rushed there after days
of partying at the Love Ranch brothel.

00:55:23.403 --> 00:55:26.364 align:center
I was doing a photo shoot
for People Magazine.

00:55:26.448 --> 00:55:30.952 align:center
And the night before, I had a dream
about Lamar that he was dead,

00:55:31.036 --> 00:55:33.872 align:center
and I was at his funeral,
and I was sobbing.

00:55:33.955 --> 00:55:37.917 align:center
In my interview,
Kim called me three times.

00:55:38.001 --> 00:55:40.462 align:center
I get in the car,
I call her, and she's like,

00:55:40.545 --> 00:55:43.423 align:center
"Lamar overdosed. He's in Vegas."

00:55:43.506 --> 00:55:45.633 align:center
And I just remember screaming.

00:55:47.344 --> 00:55:51.139 align:center
It was like eight o'clock.
Just, like, about to head to bed.

00:55:51.222 --> 00:55:54.059 align:center
And, um, my mom came in.

00:55:54.142 --> 00:55:58.438 align:center
She was like,
"I just got a text saying, like,

00:55:58.521 --> 00:56:02.984 align:center
they just read TMZ,
and your dad's, like, in a coma."

00:56:03.068 --> 00:56:06.696 align:center
I just remember the room being,
like, heavy, if that makes sense.

00:56:06.780 --> 00:56:10.909 align:center
It felt like the walls
were kind of, like, closing in.

00:56:11.493 --> 00:56:14.704 align:center
We didn't know details yet.
And my mom was just distraught.

00:56:14.788 --> 00:56:19.000 align:center
She was just trying
to make phone calls and just like,

00:56:19.084 --> 00:56:20.794 align:center
um, "How do we get to Vegas?"

00:56:20.877 --> 00:56:22.754 align:center
Looks like a dire situation right now.

00:56:22.837 --> 00:56:25.340 align:center
Right, well, he was found around 3:15

00:56:25.423 --> 00:56:28.176 align:center
by two of the girls at the Love Ranch.

00:56:28.259 --> 00:56:31.262 align:center
And reportedly,
and according to a police report,

00:56:31.346 --> 00:56:35.058 align:center
he had liquid coming out of his nose,
his mouth, and he was unconscious.

00:56:35.141 --> 00:56:37.018 align:center
So we get to the hospital.

00:56:37.602 --> 00:56:39.187 align:center
His dad was there.

00:56:39.270 --> 00:56:44.401 align:center
I assume, thought,
he's now the beneficiary to Lamar.

00:56:44.484 --> 00:56:46.945 align:center
And Joe just said,
"Don't put him on life support."

00:56:47.028 --> 00:56:48.238 align:center
"Turn those machines off."

00:56:48.321 --> 00:56:51.699 align:center
And I remember
walking in around that time,

00:56:52.283 --> 00:56:55.328 align:center
and I kid you not,
it was a scene out of a movie.

00:56:55.412 --> 00:56:59.332 align:center
And I'm like, "Sorry, Joe,
I'm still his wife. What do you need?"

00:56:59.415 --> 00:57:03.753 align:center
And Joe wanted a pair of Nikes and $100,
and a hotel room for the night.

00:57:03.837 --> 00:57:05.630 align:center
And Joe left and never came back.

00:57:06.589 --> 00:57:08.383 align:center
This is my husband.

00:57:08.466 --> 00:57:11.052 align:center
Through sickness and health,
I have to be there for him.

00:57:11.136 --> 00:57:12.637 align:center
I have to show up for him.

00:57:12.720 --> 00:57:15.890 align:center
And I was gonna do
everything I could to make sure

00:57:15.974 --> 00:57:17.684 align:center
that he had the best fighting chance.

00:57:17.767 --> 00:57:22.480 align:center
And I just trusted myself more
than I trusted anyone in his circle.

00:57:22.564 --> 00:57:25.900 align:center
His former wife,
Khloé Kardashian, at his side.

00:57:25.984 --> 00:57:29.529 align:center
Because of a backlog in the courts,
their divorce is not final.

00:57:29.612 --> 00:57:33.992 align:center
And she alone is making
medical decisions on his behalf.

00:57:34.075 --> 00:57:37.495 align:center
He had a lot of brain damage
on the left side of his body,

00:57:37.579 --> 00:57:39.497 align:center
and his lungs collapsed.

00:57:39.581 --> 00:57:41.374 align:center
They were like, "Okay, the surgery,

00:57:41.457 --> 00:57:45.420 align:center
there's, like, a 10% chance it will work,
or he might die on the table."

00:57:46.004 --> 00:57:48.131 align:center
And Kobe Bryant was there.

00:57:48.214 --> 00:57:51.593 align:center
And he helped me make the decision
of doing the surgery.

00:57:51.676 --> 00:57:54.179 align:center
We got his lungs to work,
and he didn't die.

00:57:54.262 --> 00:57:56.014 align:center
But he fell into a coma.

00:57:57.640 --> 00:57:59.976 align:center
For the very first time since their father

00:58:00.059 --> 00:58:02.312 align:center
was brought here to Sunrise Hospital,

00:58:02.395 --> 00:58:06.191 align:center
Lamar Odom's children are now
in Las Vegas to be with their father.

00:58:06.274 --> 00:58:09.736 align:center
The news was still saying like,
"He's been in a coma for, like, two days."

00:58:09.819 --> 00:58:11.321 align:center
And I was like…

00:58:11.404 --> 00:58:13.364 align:center
…"I can at least, like, say my goodbyes."

00:58:15.033 --> 00:58:16.701 align:center
"Prayers for Lamar" was trending.

00:58:16.784 --> 00:58:20.371 align:center
Like, the world was, like,
literally praying for him.

00:58:21.539 --> 00:58:23.291 align:center
'Cause it's bigger than basketball.

00:58:23.374 --> 00:58:25.543 align:center
It's bigger than being
a reality-TV husband.

00:58:25.627 --> 00:58:26.836 align:center
Like, people…

00:58:26.920 --> 00:58:31.090 align:center
I think people genuinely saw,
this is a man broken and full of pain.

00:58:33.259 --> 00:58:35.637 align:center
When we went into the hospital room,

00:58:35.720 --> 00:58:40.558 align:center
like, it was hard seeing him
all tubed up and everything.

00:58:40.642 --> 00:58:42.852 align:center
He was so swollen.
I remember how swollen he was.

00:58:44.062 --> 00:58:46.814 align:center
It did look like he was just sleeping.

00:58:46.898 --> 00:58:48.775 align:center
And, um, I just grabbed his hand,

00:58:48.858 --> 00:58:50.777 align:center
and I… I said everything.

00:58:50.860 --> 00:58:52.237 align:center
I was like, "You can't leave."

00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:56.241 align:center
"Like, we-- we-- we still have memories
to make."

00:58:56.324 --> 00:58:57.450 align:center
Um…

00:58:58.993 --> 00:59:02.247 align:center
He was in a coma for, I wanna say,
like, three days, four days.

00:59:02.330 --> 00:59:03.915 align:center
Twelve strokes.

00:59:03.998 --> 00:59:07.835 align:center
I think it was six heart attacks,
which is unheard of.

00:59:07.919 --> 00:59:10.255 align:center
Sources close to Odom
tell our sister network

00:59:10.338 --> 00:59:13.508 align:center
that Lamar Odom is hooked up
to a ventilator in a coma

00:59:13.591 --> 00:59:16.135 align:center
and likely suffered brain damage.

00:59:17.053 --> 00:59:18.179 align:center
The doctor said,

00:59:18.263 --> 00:59:21.683 align:center
"He may not be able to respond to you
or, like, talk back to you,

00:59:21.766 --> 00:59:24.352 align:center
but he could hear you
while he's in a coma."

00:59:24.435 --> 00:59:27.814 align:center
I think it was 2003,

00:59:27.897 --> 00:59:33.236 align:center
2002, when Jay-Z or Fat Joe
had that big basketball tournament

00:59:33.319 --> 00:59:36.281 align:center
in New York City,
he played for Jay-Z's team.

00:59:36.364 --> 00:59:38.491 align:center
And in a clip, in a highlight…

00:59:38.575 --> 00:59:41.494 align:center
He's gotta skip to him.
What is he going to do?

00:59:41.578 --> 00:59:42.662 align:center
…he makes a good move.

00:59:42.745 --> 00:59:45.164 align:center
Shammgods it between some dude's legs.

00:59:45.248 --> 00:59:47.458 align:center
The crowd goes crazy.

00:59:51.254 --> 00:59:53.548 align:center
And then he does a little dance,
a little shimmy.

00:59:57.635 --> 01:00:01.431 align:center
Yeah, I always just played that clip
for him, you know, so he could hear it.

01:00:04.225 --> 01:00:06.811 align:center
We're seeing some activity
in front of the hospital.

01:00:06.894 --> 01:00:09.647 align:center
TMZ is reporting
that Lamar Odom is in a coma.

01:00:09.731 --> 01:00:14.152 align:center
One woman told me Khloé Kardashian
was here last night to be by Odom's side.

01:00:14.235 --> 01:00:16.404 align:center
Some people got to see him.
Some people didn't.

01:00:16.487 --> 01:00:19.365 align:center
We had no control over that.
Khloé had control over that.

01:00:19.449 --> 01:00:23.745 align:center
I had filters
on who I would let into the hospital.

01:00:23.828 --> 01:00:24.829 align:center
That's very true.

01:00:25.496 --> 01:00:28.416 align:center
At the very beginning,
I would let people come in.

01:00:28.499 --> 01:00:32.587 align:center
And then I found out,
like, three of them were drug dealers

01:00:32.670 --> 01:00:34.464 align:center
that were wanting to collect money,

01:00:34.547 --> 01:00:36.966 align:center
rummaging through his personal bags.

01:00:37.050 --> 01:00:41.346 align:center
And when that happened
is when I said, "We're on lockdown."

01:00:41.429 --> 01:00:44.974 align:center
"Whoever wants to come,
I need to authorize them being here."

01:00:45.808 --> 01:00:47.935 align:center
Literally,
we were coming out of the elevator.

01:00:48.019 --> 01:00:49.562 align:center
The whole family was with me.

01:00:49.645 --> 01:00:51.647 align:center
And Kris Jenner's bodyguard was like,

01:00:51.731 --> 01:00:54.901 align:center
"Before you come onto this floor,
you guys gotta sign this."

01:00:54.984 --> 01:00:57.737 align:center
And I was looking at him,
and he was like, "Not you."

01:00:57.820 --> 01:00:58.988 align:center
I was like, "I thought so."

01:00:59.072 --> 01:01:01.949 align:center
So they didn't give me the NDA,
but they gave it to his family.

01:01:02.033 --> 01:01:05.536 align:center
It got so bad that somebody
must've told the cops

01:01:05.620 --> 01:01:09.916 align:center
because the Vegas PD came upstairs
with, like, five cops,

01:01:09.999 --> 01:01:11.667 align:center
two German shepherds.

01:01:11.751 --> 01:01:12.960 align:center
It was very intimidating.

01:01:13.044 --> 01:01:14.921 align:center
Um, but I think it was to keep the peace,

01:01:15.004 --> 01:01:18.049 align:center
but yet, it made it kind of worse,
kind of triggering.

01:01:18.132 --> 01:01:22.178 align:center
And Destiny also had to be like,
"My father is down the hall."

01:01:22.261 --> 01:01:26.432 align:center
"Like, we are praying for him to wake up.
Like, we don't need this. Like, stop."

01:01:31.646 --> 01:01:33.690 align:center
Death is something we'll all go through.

01:01:33.773 --> 01:01:39.278 align:center
And in my family… Lamar knows this.
My mother said it. I say it.

01:01:39.362 --> 01:01:41.447 align:center
The kids say it.

01:01:41.531 --> 01:01:44.033 align:center
Whatever don't kill you
makes you stronger.

01:01:44.701 --> 01:01:46.244 align:center
And we some strong people.

01:01:49.580 --> 01:01:52.625 align:center
Before all the media trucks
had really gotten there,

01:01:52.709 --> 01:01:55.128 align:center
everything really started to sink in

01:01:55.211 --> 01:01:57.672 align:center
because the adrenaline dump happened.

01:01:57.755 --> 01:02:02.343 align:center
And my part of this, at least
in real time dealing with it, is done.

01:02:03.177 --> 01:02:06.681 align:center
All of a sudden, there appears this guy.

01:02:06.764 --> 01:02:12.687 align:center
And he comes up to me, and he identifies
himself as somebody from Lamar's team.

01:02:12.770 --> 01:02:18.860 align:center
He says, "Lamar, uh, has a backpack
that he brought with him to the brothel."

01:02:18.943 --> 01:02:25.783 align:center
I said, "I'm not authorized to turn
anything over until I hear from my boss."

01:02:25.867 --> 01:02:28.870 align:center
He says, "Listen, right now,

01:02:30.204 --> 01:02:32.206 align:center
no one knows anything about this."

01:02:32.290 --> 01:02:37.211 align:center
"And I'm sure your boss
would like to keep it that way."

01:02:37.295 --> 01:02:40.840 align:center
And boy… …I thought to myself,

01:02:40.923 --> 01:02:43.092 align:center
"You, sir, do not know Dennis Hof."

01:02:43.176 --> 01:02:46.137 align:center
The owner of the brothel
where Lamar Odom was found unresponsive

01:02:46.220 --> 01:02:47.388 align:center
is speaking out tonight.

01:02:47.472 --> 01:02:49.724 align:center
He was in a good mood,
wanted to have a good time.

01:02:49.807 --> 01:02:51.017 align:center
He wanted peace and quiet.

01:02:51.100 --> 01:02:53.978 align:center
He said he was doing cocaine
before he got there on Saturday.

01:02:54.061 --> 01:02:55.855 align:center
A hard day in the brothel business.

01:02:55.938 --> 01:02:59.400 align:center
The very first words out of his mouth
are, "Okay, I've called TMZ."

01:02:59.484 --> 01:03:03.863 align:center
"I've told the National Enquirer
they can have the exclusive interview,

01:03:03.946 --> 01:03:05.281 align:center
but TMZ breaks the story."

01:03:05.364 --> 01:03:07.909 align:center
Well, everything was fine
until Tuesday morning.

01:03:07.992 --> 01:03:10.036 align:center
-He was there for a good time--
-Hold on, Hof.

01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:12.079 align:center
I didn't know you had extended stay.

01:03:12.163 --> 01:03:14.415 align:center
He realizes he's got
a couple of chips here.

01:03:14.499 --> 01:03:17.794 align:center
Everybody wants the receipt
that Lamar signed.

01:03:17.877 --> 01:03:21.547 align:center
He paid a tab of $75,000 up front.

01:03:21.631 --> 01:03:25.718 align:center
And they also want the footage.
And so a bidding war ensues.

01:03:25.801 --> 01:03:29.472 align:center
We're getting word that there is video
of him during his stay at the ranch.

01:03:29.555 --> 01:03:32.183 align:center
The ranch's owner, Dennis Hof,
confirmed the video exists,

01:03:32.266 --> 01:03:35.019 align:center
but says the current bid was at $50,000.

01:03:35.102 --> 01:03:37.188 align:center
The deal Dennis finally strikes

01:03:37.271 --> 01:03:40.107 align:center
is he gives it to the Today Show.

01:03:40.191 --> 01:03:43.945 align:center
And the deal he works out
is Matt Lauer's sitting there,

01:03:44.028 --> 01:03:45.988 align:center
and he says, uh,

01:03:46.072 --> 01:03:50.159 align:center
"Joining us now is the owner
of the Love Ranch,

01:03:50.743 --> 01:03:54.956 align:center
and the author of The Art of the Pimp,

01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:57.542 align:center
available in bookstores everywhere,

01:03:57.625 --> 01:03:59.126 align:center
Dennis Hof."

01:03:59.210 --> 01:04:02.630 align:center
If I didn't know it before,
I knew after that.

01:04:02.713 --> 01:04:05.675 align:center
That in terms of what we were gonna do

01:04:05.758 --> 01:04:08.636 align:center
or would be willing to do for publicity,

01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:10.304 align:center
there wasn't a limit.

01:04:14.350 --> 01:04:15.768 align:center
Here they come.

01:04:15.852 --> 01:04:18.187 align:center
News broke this afternoon
that Lamar Odom woke up

01:04:18.271 --> 01:04:20.606 align:center
after nearly three days
of being unconscious.

01:04:20.690 --> 01:04:23.901 align:center
A close friend of Odom's tells us
he's now off of breathing tubes

01:04:23.985 --> 01:04:25.695 align:center
and even opened his eyes.

01:04:25.778 --> 01:04:28.114 align:center
Khloé, are you worried about Lamar?

01:04:28.197 --> 01:04:32.285 align:center
Do you think Lamar's ready to die
if he doesn't get straight?

01:04:32.368 --> 01:04:34.453 align:center
What do you think, Khloé?

01:04:34.537 --> 01:04:36.706 align:center
Are you gonna try to help Lamar?

01:04:36.789 --> 01:04:40.042 align:center
Each and every day
that Odom's health slightly improves,

01:04:40.126 --> 01:04:42.461 align:center
security around the hospital heightens.

01:04:42.545 --> 01:04:44.630 align:center
So many people
so desperate to catch a glimpse

01:04:44.714 --> 01:04:48.551 align:center
of the former NBA star
or possibly a Kardashian,

01:04:48.634 --> 01:04:52.054 align:center
we're told some have dressed up
as security guards and nurses

01:04:52.138 --> 01:04:53.097 align:center
to try and get in.

01:04:56.684 --> 01:05:00.396 align:center
Woke up three days later,
ripping tubes and shit outta my neck.

01:05:00.479 --> 01:05:02.273 align:center
I still got the scar from it.

01:05:03.399 --> 01:05:06.527 align:center
I'm serious, ripping the shit
out of my neck and my face.

01:05:07.236 --> 01:05:09.780 align:center
I'm freaking out,
and I'm calling the nurse,

01:05:09.864 --> 01:05:12.617 align:center
and he pulls this tube out,
and he looks around, and he says,

01:05:12.700 --> 01:05:15.202 align:center
"Hey, baby," and falls back asleep.

01:05:15.286 --> 01:05:17.580 align:center
I'm like, "What the fuck just happened?"

01:05:18.372 --> 01:05:22.418 align:center
When you wake up from a coma,
you don't know what the fuck is going on.

01:05:22.501 --> 01:05:25.713 align:center
Just pulling the shit
all out your neck and everything.

01:05:26.756 --> 01:05:29.175 align:center
Yeah, I got the reminders right here.

01:05:29.258 --> 01:05:31.636 align:center
These are the TMZ photos of the helicopter

01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:33.554 align:center
that transported Lamar Odom

01:05:33.638 --> 01:05:36.307 align:center
to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles,

01:05:36.390 --> 01:05:40.770 align:center
where he will reportedly undergo
six hours of dialysis a day.

01:05:40.853 --> 01:05:42.563 align:center
We support Lamar.

01:05:42.647 --> 01:05:45.024 align:center
Queensbridge, Ravenswood,
all his friends back home.

01:05:45.900 --> 01:05:47.360 align:center
Go set Lamar up.

01:05:47.443 --> 01:05:49.403 align:center
-What's his poison?
-Holding up?

01:05:49.487 --> 01:05:52.490 align:center
Hi, Lamar,
this is Monica Monroe from Love Ranch.

01:05:52.573 --> 01:05:55.868 align:center
Dennis and the team just wanna
wish you well in your recovery.

01:05:55.952 --> 01:05:57.620 align:center
-Any words for Lamar?
-Love you.

01:05:57.703 --> 01:06:00.581 align:center
Wish Lamar a happy birthday
for us, will you?

01:06:00.665 --> 01:06:02.833 align:center
It's hard to focus
on other things right now.

01:06:02.917 --> 01:06:05.586 align:center
Lamar is a brother to me.
My prayers are with him.

01:06:05.670 --> 01:06:09.173 align:center
It's-- it's tough thinking about him
just laying there.

01:06:10.591 --> 01:06:13.177 align:center
When I woke up, I couldn't hold my bowels.

01:06:13.970 --> 01:06:18.933 align:center
So you can-- you can imagine the humility
of being in, um, Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

01:06:19.016 --> 01:06:22.770 align:center
Yeah, I won two championships,
I'm Lamar Odom, I can't walk, can't talk.

01:06:22.853 --> 01:06:25.564 align:center
And they come in to check my diaper.

01:06:27.483 --> 01:06:28.776 align:center
My wife was, uh…

01:06:30.736 --> 01:06:32.947 align:center
around me,
she helped wipe some of the shit up.

01:06:37.743 --> 01:06:38.995 align:center
I never left.

01:06:39.078 --> 01:06:42.790 align:center
I was there for about four months
with him every single day.

01:06:42.873 --> 01:06:47.002 align:center
We were, like, determined to get him
walking and moving again.

01:06:47.586 --> 01:06:51.382 align:center
Do a shoulder press.
Come on, I know you do shoulder press.

01:06:51.465 --> 01:06:53.509 align:center
Let's go. Up.

01:06:53.592 --> 01:06:57.430 align:center
Some of the circuits weren't connecting
to different outlets of his brain.

01:06:57.513 --> 01:07:00.057 align:center
Yes, you're close. There you go.

01:07:01.142 --> 01:07:05.563 align:center
But Lamar's determination,
that's just rooted in his body,

01:07:05.646 --> 01:07:08.816 align:center
is what got him to being where he is.

01:07:11.027 --> 01:07:15.406 align:center
And he did learn
how to walk again at Cedars.

01:07:16.115 --> 01:07:17.908 align:center
And that was really special.

01:07:17.992 --> 01:07:19.660 align:center
-There you go.
-Now you're smiling.

01:07:19.744 --> 01:07:21.037 align:center
-Is he smiling?
-Yeah.

01:07:21.120 --> 01:07:22.121 align:center
Nice.

01:07:23.622 --> 01:07:24.498 align:center
Nice.

01:07:24.582 --> 01:07:26.500 align:center
You're doing so well.

01:07:26.584 --> 01:07:29.086 align:center
I know this is the first time
that you've sat down live,

01:07:29.170 --> 01:07:32.673 align:center
and you are fully willing to talk about

01:07:32.757 --> 01:07:35.176 align:center
the journey that you've
been through with Lamar.

01:07:35.259 --> 01:07:37.970 align:center
He's doing great.
But, you know, it's a long journey.

01:07:38.053 --> 01:07:41.015 align:center
And it's… Every day is different.
We take every day as it comes.

01:07:41.098 --> 01:07:44.101 align:center
I've learned not to look
into the future too much.

01:07:44.185 --> 01:07:46.062 align:center
I try to live every day as it comes.

01:07:46.145 --> 01:07:49.023 align:center
And I'm just… 2016 is a good year.

01:07:50.024 --> 01:07:51.567 align:center
Do you know who this is?

01:07:54.361 --> 01:07:56.071 align:center
This is your son.

01:07:56.864 --> 01:07:59.366 align:center
Your son's name is Lamar Jr.

01:08:01.035 --> 01:08:03.370 align:center
And we call him LJ.

01:08:03.454 --> 01:08:07.708 align:center
It probably was harder for her
'cause I couldn't say, "Thank you,"

01:08:07.792 --> 01:08:09.835 align:center
or, "I appreciate you," or…

01:08:09.919 --> 01:08:13.506 align:center
I couldn't show any-- I wouldn't even cry.
You know, I wouldn't even…

01:08:13.589 --> 01:08:15.633 align:center
One, two,

01:08:16.634 --> 01:08:17.468 align:center
three.

01:08:17.551 --> 01:08:18.636 align:center
Do it!

01:08:20.721 --> 01:08:22.389 align:center
Blow.

01:08:22.473 --> 01:08:23.474 align:center
Three.

01:08:30.314 --> 01:08:31.357 align:center
It was like I was

01:08:32.525 --> 01:08:33.442 align:center
a heartbeat.

01:08:34.777 --> 01:08:36.237 align:center
Good job.

01:08:36.320 --> 01:08:37.613 align:center
You did great.

01:08:38.572 --> 01:08:41.784 align:center
There was a lot of challenges,
but he's a fighter.

01:08:41.867 --> 01:08:46.580 align:center
And as long as he's willing
to fight it and constantly better himself,

01:08:46.664 --> 01:08:48.582 align:center
then that's all I could ask for.

01:08:53.129 --> 01:08:54.547 align:center
You about to go swim?

01:08:54.630 --> 01:08:56.423 align:center
Hell no.

01:08:56.507 --> 01:08:57.925 align:center
You know I don't swim.

01:08:58.968 --> 01:09:01.512 align:center
Before I die, I promise
I'm gonna learn how to swim.

01:09:01.595 --> 01:09:03.222 align:center
And go back to school.

01:09:03.305 --> 01:09:05.182 align:center
Because I got a chance right now to…

01:09:05.891 --> 01:09:08.769 align:center
coach in college really soon and…

01:09:08.853 --> 01:09:11.021 align:center
probably, um…

01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:16.819 align:center
After that,
probably in the NBA if I want to.

01:09:16.902 --> 01:09:22.867 align:center
But I really wanna use
coaching in college to go back to school.

01:09:22.950 --> 01:09:26.245 align:center
My grandmother went back
to school when she was 50 years old.

01:09:26.328 --> 01:09:27.538 align:center
And graduated.

01:09:29.498 --> 01:09:32.960 align:center
When we got discharged,
I was not thinking, but I was like,

01:09:33.043 --> 01:09:35.754 align:center
"Oh, yeah, where is Lamar going?"

01:09:38.424 --> 01:09:40.467 align:center
So at this point, Lamar can barely talk.

01:09:40.551 --> 01:09:43.512 align:center
He can speak a little bit,
but it's more like, "Mm-hm."

01:09:43.596 --> 01:09:45.180 align:center
And everything's delayed.

01:09:45.264 --> 01:09:47.600 align:center
He wasn't able
to take a shower on his own.

01:09:47.683 --> 01:09:50.519 align:center
We had to test the water.
He couldn't decipher hot and cold.

01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:54.732 align:center
So I rented a home for him
in the community.

01:09:54.815 --> 01:09:57.151 align:center
I had a caretaker. I had a chef.

01:09:57.234 --> 01:09:59.904 align:center
And we were gonna rehabilitate him.

01:10:01.697 --> 01:10:04.533 align:center
Once you know the smell of crack,

01:10:04.617 --> 01:10:07.870 align:center
it's the most identifiable,
disgusting smell.

01:10:07.953 --> 01:10:10.539 align:center
And there's nothing
that you can confuse it with.

01:10:11.999 --> 01:10:16.587 align:center
And I remember stopping by the house,
and I smelled crack.

01:10:17.171 --> 01:10:21.383 align:center
Okay, I'm gonna fucking be
as stealth as possible.

01:10:21.467 --> 01:10:23.552 align:center
And I'm gonna see what this guy's doing.

01:10:23.636 --> 01:10:26.931 align:center
I remember slowly tiptoeing up the stairs.

01:10:27.014 --> 01:10:31.352 align:center
He was in his bedroom,
sitting on the edge of the bed,

01:10:31.435 --> 01:10:33.395 align:center
and smoking crack.

01:10:33.479 --> 01:10:35.564 align:center
And I just punched him in his face.

01:10:36.815 --> 01:10:40.736 align:center
"I just put my life on hold
to fucking take care of you."

01:10:40.819 --> 01:10:44.615 align:center
"How did you get this?
You don't have a fucking phone."

01:10:44.698 --> 01:10:45.783 align:center
"You can't talk."

01:10:46.367 --> 01:10:49.203 align:center
Well, lo and behold, he had a phone.

01:10:49.286 --> 01:10:52.748 align:center
He was better than I knew.

01:10:52.831 --> 01:10:56.710 align:center
He was playing me so I can continue
this lifestyle for him.

01:10:57.628 --> 01:11:00.839 align:center
I said,
"By Monday, you need out of this house."

01:11:01.507 --> 01:11:03.842 align:center
"I'm done. I'm not paying for a thing."

01:11:05.344 --> 01:11:07.763 align:center
"And I never wanna speak to you again."

01:11:08.389 --> 01:11:11.350 align:center
Khloé Kardashian has filed
for divorce from Lamar Odom

01:11:11.433 --> 01:11:13.352 align:center
for the second time, again.

01:11:13.435 --> 01:11:15.729 align:center
She previously filed for divorce in 2013,

01:11:15.813 --> 01:11:17.606 align:center
but then withdrew that petition

01:11:17.690 --> 01:11:22.778 align:center
after the former NBA star
was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel.

01:11:22.861 --> 01:11:24.989 align:center
I'm trying to think about like,
who the fuck…?

01:11:26.156 --> 01:11:28.325 align:center
If you know Lamar Odom
just went through that,

01:11:28.409 --> 01:11:30.953 align:center
how would you even--
Why would you even give him coke?

01:11:32.955 --> 01:11:34.290 align:center
That's fucked up.

01:11:37.293 --> 01:11:41.338 align:center
He was on this kind of like
redemption tour a little bit,

01:11:41.422 --> 01:11:45.676 align:center
moving around here to there in LA,
going to events.

01:11:45.759 --> 01:11:47.094 align:center
He went to Kobe's last game.

01:11:47.177 --> 01:11:49.096 align:center
Kobe! Kobe!

01:11:56.812 --> 01:11:59.023 align:center
But he never went to rehab.

01:11:59.106 --> 01:12:05.070 align:center
He just kind of like acted
like the coma thing never really happened.

01:12:06.238 --> 01:12:10.868 align:center
There was, like, this Kanye West event
in Madison Square Garden that he was at.

01:12:10.951 --> 01:12:13.287 align:center
And I was like,
"You didn't even come to see me."

01:12:13.370 --> 01:12:14.788 align:center
"Like, what are you doing?"

01:12:16.957 --> 01:12:19.126 align:center
When you just look
at somebody as an addict and,

01:12:19.209 --> 01:12:21.462 align:center
"It's your fault
because you started using drugs,"

01:12:21.545 --> 01:12:24.256 align:center
and, "Oh, just grow up and just stop it."

01:12:24.340 --> 01:12:27.926 align:center
And it's, like, no,
when you really learn about it, like,

01:12:28.010 --> 01:12:33.557 align:center
you see, like,
how you can get really snagged into it.

01:12:35.142 --> 01:12:37.811 align:center
I feel like
Lamar's struggle his entire life

01:12:37.895 --> 01:12:42.191 align:center
is that he's blamed himself
for so many tragic events in his life.

01:12:42.274 --> 01:12:47.613 align:center
And sometimes, I think
these events he uses to rationalize

01:12:47.696 --> 01:12:52.034 align:center
why he abuses the way he does,
because then when you find out,

01:12:52.117 --> 01:12:55.245 align:center
"I do something bad,
I have a backpack of reasons why."

01:12:55.829 --> 01:12:57.915 align:center
Like, Lamar's had an extraordinary life.

01:12:57.998 --> 01:13:03.003 align:center
Yes, bad and good,
but fuck, it's extraordinary.

01:13:03.087 --> 01:13:04.963 align:center
And he needs to lean into that.

01:13:07.424 --> 01:13:08.926 align:center
I could depend on my family,

01:13:09.510 --> 01:13:13.347 align:center
but most people leave you
to fucking rot in the wind.

01:13:15.099 --> 01:13:17.684 align:center
Even the people that say
that they love you, bro.

01:13:19.144 --> 01:13:21.271 align:center
People show their true colors, bro.

01:13:22.731 --> 01:13:26.193 align:center
I don't really let my…
I don't really trust too much.

01:13:31.448 --> 01:13:33.534 align:center
All right. Okay.

01:13:35.786 --> 01:13:40.666 align:center
Over the years,
uh, fans have always sent me mail here.

01:13:40.749 --> 01:13:44.670 align:center
And I always made it a point to,
when Lamar came in town, sign it.

01:13:44.753 --> 01:13:47.423 align:center
Keep it all together and make him sign it.

01:13:47.506 --> 01:13:52.052 align:center
"Dear Mr. Odom,
I'm a huge basketball fan."

01:13:52.136 --> 01:13:55.097 align:center
"I love your style of playing

01:13:55.180 --> 01:13:59.351 align:center
and was hoping you would sign
one of your rookie cards for me."

01:13:59.434 --> 01:14:02.521 align:center
"Thank you so much. Brian Ingram."

01:14:02.604 --> 01:14:05.023 align:center
And here's his two rookie cards.

01:14:05.107 --> 01:14:06.483 align:center
Oh, he looks so cute.

01:14:06.567 --> 01:14:08.777 align:center
He's like Michael Jordan
a little bit right here.

01:14:08.861 --> 01:14:10.195 align:center
Look at this.

01:14:11.029 --> 01:14:13.949 align:center
Look at that. Look at the vet.

01:14:14.032 --> 01:14:17.661 align:center
Look at the vet set 'em up.
With three fouls.

01:14:18.704 --> 01:14:21.081 align:center
As much as he's grown
over the past couple years,

01:14:21.165 --> 01:14:24.168 align:center
I feel like sometimes you always
gotta put him back on track.

01:14:25.544 --> 01:14:28.380 align:center
Okay, quarter number four, down 18.

01:14:28.464 --> 01:14:31.842 align:center
It seems like you're the parent
and he's the son.

01:14:31.925 --> 01:14:34.219 align:center
Or he's the little kid.

01:14:34.303 --> 01:14:37.639 align:center
We all got a lot of growing up to do,
but I feel like he…

01:14:37.723 --> 01:14:39.975 align:center
He got a lot of growing up to do also.

01:14:40.058 --> 01:14:42.394 align:center
-Come on, man.
-Oh, shit.

01:14:42.478 --> 01:14:45.522 align:center
When I was on Big Brother
reality show, I'm there…

01:14:45.606 --> 01:14:47.316 align:center
I was there for like 30 days.

01:14:47.900 --> 01:14:49.610 align:center
Out of those 30 days,

01:14:50.569 --> 01:14:52.112 align:center
I dreamt Kobe four times.

01:14:52.738 --> 01:14:57.201 align:center
The last dream that I remember clearly,
we were having a shooting contest.

01:14:58.202 --> 01:15:01.955 align:center
Billy Crystal was emceeing it.
That's how you know it's a dream, right?

01:15:02.039 --> 01:15:05.876 align:center
So before he goes up first, he looks at…

01:15:05.959 --> 01:15:07.920 align:center
He looks back at me, and he says,

01:15:08.003 --> 01:15:12.883 align:center
"LO, the afterlife
is not what people make it out to be."

01:15:12.966 --> 01:15:14.885 align:center
When he said that, I'm like,

01:15:16.428 --> 01:15:18.764 align:center
"Right now is, now is go-mode."

01:15:20.057 --> 01:15:23.018 align:center
You ain't fucking giving me
another workout on the lower back.

01:15:24.895 --> 01:15:27.105 align:center
Awesome. I'll call you back.

01:15:27.189 --> 01:15:30.692 align:center
I don't look weird walking up
this mountain with these pants on?

01:15:30.776 --> 01:15:32.736 align:center
No, you look great.

01:15:34.029 --> 01:15:35.989 align:center
Shit's crazy
because at the end of the day,

01:15:36.073 --> 01:15:38.158 align:center
we're all really just trying to find out.

01:15:38.242 --> 01:15:40.202 align:center
For me,
it's the search and quest for life.

01:15:40.285 --> 01:15:42.412 align:center
Like, "Why am I here?
Why did God spare me?"

01:15:42.496 --> 01:15:46.833 align:center
Like, I had twelve strokes
and six heart attacks, dude. Like…

01:15:46.917 --> 01:15:48.961 align:center
That's not no average shit.

01:15:49.545 --> 01:15:50.963 align:center
Shit.

01:15:51.046 --> 01:15:52.047 align:center
I mean, not to get kinky,

01:15:52.130 --> 01:15:55.425 align:center
but I don't wanna take my pants off
down there.

01:15:56.927 --> 01:15:59.263 align:center
I got the pants on
and y'all lagging behind.

01:15:59.346 --> 01:16:01.223 align:center
Oh no, you're not.

01:16:01.306 --> 01:16:02.724 align:center
I was talking shit.

01:16:02.808 --> 01:16:05.352 align:center
I mean, shit.

01:16:06.728 --> 01:16:10.023 align:center
You got Clippers, Lakers, Khloé,

01:16:10.107 --> 01:16:14.278 align:center
death, life, kids, now.

01:16:16.613 --> 01:16:20.117 align:center
I think they know I'm a sex fiend
and a drug addict.

01:16:20.200 --> 01:16:22.452 align:center
Um…

01:16:23.579 --> 01:16:26.581 align:center
Did basketball solve my problems
or create my problems?

01:16:26.665 --> 01:16:28.542 align:center
I would say both.

01:16:28.625 --> 01:16:34.172 align:center
It solved my problems because it gave me
a refuge and always a safe place.

01:16:34.256 --> 01:16:38.885 align:center
But all this fame and fortune came to me
that obviously I wasn't ready for.

01:16:38.969 --> 01:16:41.555 align:center
And then it was so crazy.
I think about that all the time.

01:16:41.638 --> 01:16:43.890 align:center
Like, would that be my safe place,

01:16:43.974 --> 01:16:47.728 align:center
like, if nobody knew who I was for a day?

01:16:47.811 --> 01:16:50.397 align:center
Or would that drive me crazy?

01:16:50.480 --> 01:16:51.898 align:center
Like, who knows?

01:16:52.733 --> 01:16:55.777 align:center
I mean, a lot of people
come up to me and, you know,

01:16:55.861 --> 01:16:58.363 align:center
notice me and, you know,
greet me and whatever.

01:16:59.072 --> 01:17:01.700 align:center
I've been out the NBA
for, what, ten years?

01:17:03.952 --> 01:17:05.746 align:center
I know I'm here for something.

01:17:06.872 --> 01:17:08.790 align:center
And once I find that out…

01:17:08.874 --> 01:17:10.292 align:center
Tonight…

01:17:10.375 --> 01:17:12.127 align:center
…well, look out.

01:17:12.210 --> 01:17:14.630 align:center
You've gotta do what's right…

01:17:14.713 --> 01:17:16.798 align:center
Real Sex is a wrap!

01:17:18.342 --> 01:17:22.763 align:center
I'm a Netflix baby now.
I'm… Does this make me an A-lister?

01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:25.641 align:center
I'm with it.
I'm ready to go to Vegas, bro.

01:17:25.724 --> 01:17:28.935 align:center
-You're going to Vegas tonight?
-Fuck it, bro.

01:17:29.019 --> 01:17:32.147 align:center
I'm gonna marry somebody in Vegas.
Fuck it.

01:17:32.230 --> 01:17:33.565 align:center
I get…

01:17:33.648 --> 01:17:34.524 align:center
I'm joking.

01:17:34.608 --> 01:17:37.319 align:center
-I know you are.
-I'm joking.

01:17:37.402 --> 01:17:39.613 align:center
Someone's alone

01:17:39.696 --> 01:17:43.075 align:center
Someone's alone

01:17:43.158 --> 01:17:47.788 align:center
In your city tonight
joking.