Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom<\/a> hears interviews from Odom\u2019s family, including his children, his childhood friends, and him on how his drug abuse affected them and what secrets they\u2019ve kept from that night over ten years ago. Below, the biggest revelations from the documentary episode of the night that almost killed Odom.<\/p>\nKardashian and Odom famously had an incredibly short timeline for their wedding; they had only been dating for less than two months before they officially tied the knot on September 27, 2009. It\u2019s not surprising that Odom\u2019s family didn\u2019t take the wedding seriously; they thought he was kidding. \u201cI really thought he was joking,\u201d his first wife, Liza Morales, explained. \u201cI said, \u2018My God, come on now. That\u2019s too soon,\u201d Janean Mercer, his aunt, added. None of his children went to his wedding, and his eldest son, Lamar Odom Jr., doesn\u2019t remember his dad telling him he was getting married. Mercer says none of his family was invited. His childhood friend Anthony \u201cPumpkin\u201d Booker attended and said that Odom talked to him for two hours, telling him that marrying Kardashian would better his future.<\/p>\n
\u201cKhlo\u00e9 and Lamar was not my idea. Khlo\u00e9 and Lamar was very much led by Lamar,\u201d Kardashian explained. \u201cI was spread really thin. I also didn\u2019t want to jeopardize the family brand, which was Keeping Up at the time. I thought there was so many Kardashian shows.\u201d She also reminded Odom that his main career was being on the Lakers. \u201cHe did love Khlo\u00e9, but he wanted to be on reality TV for a long time,\u201d his daughter, Destiny Odom, added.<\/p>\n
Odom went missing, and Kardashian kept trying to contact him. The woman he was sleeping with took his phone and called her, asking Kardashian to come pick him up from Big Bear because he keeps \u201cwanting money and drugs.\u201d It wasn\u2019t the only time Kardashian had to clean up after his drug use. \u201cI remember needing to go to hotel rooms to clean up after him so housekeeping didn\u2019t sell a story,\u201d Kardashian remembered. \u201cI was such an enabler without knowing I was an enabler. But I just felt such a responsibility to cover this up, hold it together, and protect him.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the Lakers won the 2009 championship, his children were so excited to be in the parade with Odom. But once they knocked on his door before the parade started, he didn\u2019t let them inside because he partied the night before and he didn\u2019t want his kids to see him \u201clike this.\u201d \u201cRejection from a parent is extremely hard and hurtful. It definitely pains your development growing up,\u201d Destiny explained. \u201cThere are some moments you never forget. Now I know that he was partying and using.\u201d Odom doesn\u2019t remember this, explaining that because of his addiction, there are a lot of stories he doesn\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we went into the hospital room, it was hard seeing him all tubed up and everything,\u201d Destiny shared. \u201cHe was so swollen. I remember how swollen he was\u2026 I was like, \u2018You can\u2019t leave. Like we still have memories to make.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Kardashian rushed to the hospital to support Odom. Odom\u2019s father, Joe, who Kardashian said was an addict himself, assumed he was the beneficiary and asked the doctors to take Odom off life support. \u201cAnd I remember walking in around that time, and I kid you not, it was a scene out of a movie. I\u2019m like, \u2018Sorry, Joe, I\u2019m still his wife. What do you need?\u2019 And Joe wanted a pair of Nikes and $100, and a hotel room for the night. And Joe left, and never came back,\u201d she said. Their divorce was not finalized due to a backlog in the courts, and she was able to help make medical decisions to give him the best chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember he was driving to the Lakers facility to go to practice and he was listening to the radio,\u201d Kardashian explained, as news outlets began reporting he would be traded from LA to Dallas. \u201cThe drug use that transpired from the Dallas trade was monstrous.\u201d He only lasted a few months with the Mavericks due to his drug abuse.<\/p>\n
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