Where were the people who saw him as more than just a commodity? And if I’m honest, I know that I was no better than those users that day – too caught up in my career and pleasing my bosses to care about Lamar’s problems. I wonder now when Lamar, who was so self-aware at only 20 years old, lost his ability to tell the difference between the pretenders and the genuine people who cared about him and wanted him to succeed. Lamar Odom and the lesson on risky sex pills Lamar Odom plays for the Miami Heat against the Washington Wizards in December 2003. My assignment was to tell a happy story so we kept the conversation light, as we stopped at Lamar’s favorite designer shopping malls and fancy sidewalk cafes, filled with too many three-second celebrities to count. I don’t fit in here,” he told us then in a moment of rare honesty as he chauffeured my crew around in his shiny new SUV. “I wanted to play ball back East, closer to home. I’d had a taste of it on that trip for ESPN. I didn’t want to see what had happened to Lamar’s life.
I didn’t know the reality star Lamar – the guy whose life became a mockery in front of millions of Americans with his roles in “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and then “Khloe & Lamar.” I never could stand to watch those shows. I know he wanted more than this for his life.
And I can’t help feeling that the Lamar I knew deserved better than this. It’s a sad, tawdry tale that reads more like part of the tacky reality TV script that became his life.
Authorities there said that Odom had used cocaine and an employee at the brothel told 911 operators that she’d seen him ingest more than 10 herbal supplements over his visit there, apparently used to enhance his sexual performance. Blindsided by the harsh lights, the soft-spoken, overly-polite basketball phenom from Queens, lost his way out in la-la land.Īnd today, Odom, a two-time NBA champion with the LA Lakers and estranged husband of Khloe Kardashian was reportedly barely holding onto life after he was found unconscious at a legal Nevada brothel, the Love Ranch, where he had apparently partied for three days. He just wanted to play ball, to be a basketball star, a legend.īut somehow his dream veered terribly off track. I hate fake people,” I recall Lamar saying that summer day. I do not want to be here … you have to drive every place, the traffic is horrible and the people are fake.
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