Khloé Kardashian opened up about why she considers ex-husband Lamar Odom “dead” to her.
During the Thursday, November 12, episode of The Kardashians, Kardashian, 42, reflected on Netflix’s documentary Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, saying, “I’m not too thrilled about it because I’m watching the documentary, and I’m like, ‘Wait, I took time out of my life to sit here and do a favor for you. I’m not being paid. I’m doing this because I’m trying to be nice.’”
Kardashian was taken aback by comments from Odom, 47, that she said she “found really distasteful.”
“You’re saying that you weren’t really in love with me. You married me just so you could be more popular in pop culture,” she noted. “All these things, which is[sic] so weird. Even if that is your truth, why don’t you say it without me being on the other side of these interviews?”
The reality star found Odom’s shade “really, really lame,” adding, “I don’t need [him] to thank me. Just don’t talk about me. Don’t discredit me. The bridge is burned and there’s no more rope left to throw over. So he is dead to me.”
Kardashian continued, “It’s OK. This just solidifies what liars, con artists, cheats, thieves and trolls that men are. I just don’t want to be involved. Play with yourself, don’t play with me.”
Odom and Kardashian dated for one month before getting engaged in 2009, going on to say “I do” that same year. Kardashian filed for divorce four years later. She later postponed her petition after Odom was found unconscious in a Las Vegas brothel. (The former athlete was in a coma for three days and later required months of rehabilitation.)
With the divorce on pause, Kardashian was able to make medical decisions on Odom’s behalf and as he eventually recovered. They officially got divorced in 2016, with their relationship being revisited in Netflix’s Untold documentary earlier this year.
“The drug buildup was getting worse and worse. There were many times Lamar would go for 12 hours or two days and escape rehab. He would go on a drug bender and no one could find him,” Kardashian said. “I was either looking for him in alleys or looking for him in motels. He would have tinfoil cutouts or spoons and he was freebasing things and leaving things everywhere. I remember needing to go to hotel rooms to clean up after him.”
Kardashian added, “I was such an enabler without knowing I was an enabler. But I just felt such a responsibility to cover this up, hold it together and protect him.”
After the doc’s release, Odom walked back the suggestion that Kardashian saved his life after his near-fatal overdose. During an episode of the Today show in April, Odom said Kardashian had responsibility “in some ways,” saying, “God saved my life. My lord saved my life, honestly.”
The Today show hosts reiterated that Kardashian “stepped in and stayed by your side” after Odom suffered six heart attacks and 12 strokes in 2015.
“A lot of us were saying, ‘She rode hard for you,’” Sheinelle Jones told Odom. He acknowledged that Kardashian “took care” of him, adding, “But God took care of me the most. What I came back from is like a medical miracle.”
Hulu releases new episodes of The Kardashians every Thursday.
