Khloe Kardashian makes bombshell claim about Lamar Odom

Khloé Kardashian has made a bombshell revelation about the moment she discovered Lamar Odom using drugs again after spending months nursing him back to health following his near-fatal overdose.

She tells the story in full for the first time in a new Netflix documentary.

In Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, Khloé describes how she dropped everything when Odom was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel in October 2015, putting their almost-finalised divorce proceedings on hold to take charge of his care. 

“I never left the hospital,” she said. “I was there for about four months, with him every single day. We were determined to get him walking and moving again.”

Odom had suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks in the aftermath of the overdose, something he describes in the documentary as “no average s–t.” 

After three days in a coma, he woke up briefly. “He says, ‘Hey, baby,’ and falls back asleep,” Khloé recalled. 

He was eventually transferred from Las Vegas to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles before moving to a private rehabilitation facility in early January.

When he was ready to leave, Khloé stepped up again, renting him a home near hers in Calabasas, hiring a caretaker and a chef, and overseeing his recovery. 

“We were going to rehabilitate him,” she said. Then in May 2016, she dropped by the house unannounced.

What she found stopped her in her tracks. 

“Once you know the smell of crack,” she said, “it’s the most identifiable, disgusting smell, and there’s nothing you can confuse it with.” 

She decided to find out exactly what was happening. 

“I remember slowly tiptoeing up the stairs. He was in his bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed, smoking crack. And I just punched him in his face. ‘I just put my life on hold to f–king take care of you. How did you get this? You don’t have a f–king phone. You can’t talk.'”

It turned out Odom did have a phone, and had been hiding how much he had recovered. 

“He was better than I knew,” Khloé said. “He was playing me so I can continue this lifestyle for him.” 

She gave him until Monday to leave the house and told him she was done. “I never want to speak to you again,” she said.

She refiled for divorce and it was finalised in December 2016. 

The two did not see each other again for nine years. When they eventually did meet, as shown on The Kardashians, Khloé told Odom she had punched him and “shattered everything in the house.” 

Odom said he didn’t remember the details but wasn’t dismissing it. “That s–t shouldn’t have happened,” he said.

Khloé is now mother to daughter True, 7, and son Tatum, 3, with ex Tristan Thompson.