​Tell-All Interview! - Lamar Breaks His Silence
NW Magazine|Issue 14 2017

At last, Khloe’s ex opens up about his long battle with cocaine addiction, his ‘many’ affairs and that fateful night he OD’d at a Nevada brothel...

​Tell-All Interview! - Lamar Breaks His Silence

Lamar Odom cheated death in a major way 17 months ago. “I’m a walking miracle,” the former NBA star and ex-husband of Khloe Kardashian admits to NW in a tell-all new interview.

Breaking his silence about the darkest time of his life, Lamar reveals he suffered 12 strokes and two heart attacks after being found comatose on October 13, 2015, at a brothel outside Las Vegas.

Lucky to be alive? That’s an understatement.

By that point, cocaine abuse and reckless behaviour had already ended his four-year marriage. Khloe, 32, delayed their divorce to support his recovery, but refiled the papers in May 2016 after he was photographed drinking at LA’s Beverly Center shopping mall.

Today, Lamar, 37 – who completed a stay at San Diego’s Casa Palmera rehab centre in January – is working on a TV docuseries and an autobiography, both due out this year.

He’s also focused on daddy duties with his kids – daughter Destiny, 18, and son Lamar Jr, 14 – who he shares with his ex-wife Liza Moralez.

“I had no choice but to become stronger,” Lamar tells NW, while cracking jokes, singing along to Hall & Oates’s Sara Smile and, yes, dribbling a basketball. “S**t, I’m here talking to you. So I guess I’m winning.”

Here, Lamar opens up about his drug demons, doing wrong by Khloe and his biggest regrets...

This story is from the Issue 14 2017 edition of NW Magazine.

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