Lamar Odom recalls one drink before coma, thinks he was medicated

Lamar OdomThe 2015 coma is still a blur — and the former NBA player still doesn’t know how one drink led to his hospitalization.

“I remember, but I don’t really remember because I was in a coma,” Odom, 45, said of his near-death experience during the Monday, Jan. 20, episode of The Australian Show. Show Kyle & Jackie O.

The former Los Angeles Lakers star recalled how he went to that “damn brothel” in Nevada in October 2015 without drugs on him.

“I remember being upset that I didn’t have coke to take to the brothel,” Odom said, noting that he “just signed the divorce papers” after splitting with Khloe Kardashian so he planned to “just go all the way in” that night in the brothel. (Kardashian, 40, originally filed for divorce in December 2013 after four years of marriage.)

When he got to the location, Odom recalled that he “put a certain amount on his credit card to tell them, like, ‘You know, keep this a secret.’

Afterward, the athlete recalled how he “had a drink and then woke up three days later with it all over the news.”

Cohost Kyle Sandilands was surprised by Odom’s talk about the dinner, asking, “So there were no drugs?”

“I don’t know what they managed to put in my drink,” replied Odom, confirming that he did not remember taking drugs himself, but when he came out of the comahe was told that there were actually drugs in his system that night.

He continued: “When I woke up, I couldn’t walk or talk. It took several months of rehabilitation and a lot of prayer, a lot of determination.”

Odom also had Kardashian with him when he woke up. Although the couple had just signed their divorce papers when Odom nearly died, it has not yet been finalized. The Kardashians star she withdrew her application so that she could make medical decisions in his name.

“She was the first thing I saw. She said, ‘Hi, Mookah.’ “Muka” is the name my mother used to call me. She said that to let me know I’m not dead,” Odom exclusively said Us Weekly in March 2017, recalling the moment he woke up with Kardashian at his bedside. “She played a big role in getting my memory back. She would bring pictures of my mother and my grandmother. I kept thinking, am I paralyzed forever? Am I mute forever? It was scary s—. Faith got me through.”

While he and Kardashian are at the end divorced in December 2016Odom learned a lot during his recovery.

The retired basketball player said Monday that he had “12 strokes and six heart attacks when I was down there, seeing everything black,” which eventually led to his choice of a healthier lifestyle.

“You have nothing to do after you’ve conquered death,” Odom continued, noting on the podcast that since he faced death “without medication.”

He shared that his “mission” after surviving the overdose was “to help people who have the same problem, who couldn’t help themselves” to better understand addiction.

When it comes to his life, Odom said he is “content” and “happy” to live with his children.

Odom’s oldest child, son Jayden, died at 6 months of sudden infant death syndrome. He welcomed Jayden with his girlfriend at the time Lisa Morales in December 2005. The former couple also have a daughter, Destiny, 26, and a son, Lamar Jr. (23).

“(I) see things differently and obey fatherhood,” he concluded.