Lamar Odom reveals how ‘late brother’ Kobe Bryant helps with his sobriety
Lamar Odom is “56 or 57 days” very good, the previous NBA star solely tells Page Six.
“No alcohol, no pot, no marijuana. And I’m simply [continuing] to develop mentally and spiritually. I do attempt to be my greatest self and observe the Mamba mentality, which has been handed all the way down to me by my late brother [Kobe Bryant].”
Odom, 46, is reflecting on his near-fatal 2015 drug overdose for the brand new Netflix documentary, “Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.” Premiering Tues. on Netflix, the doc covers the previous NBA participant’s profession, his marriage to Khloe Kardashian, drug habit, and his coma following the overdose in a Nevada brothel in 2015.
The documentary covers how Bryant – who died at 41 in a 2020 helicopter crash – rushed to Odom’s aspect when he was hospitalized.
Odom tells us that as a result of he was in a coma, he wasn’t conscious of Bryant’s presence on the time, “But to know that he was there…when I’m reflecting on it, I think that’s probably what pulled me through. The love that I was getting from everyone. It’s always good to have support, and of course support from your brothers.”
Looking again on his use of medication reminiscent of cocaine and crack – which he discusses onscreen within the doc – the previous Laker tells Page Six, “I’m not the same person. I do everything in my strength to protect my sobriety.”
He provides that it is “easy” to “backtrack” and name “a guy who used to deliver marijuana to me. But I’ve come too far to take a step back,” the previous athlete tells us.
“If I take a step back, then I’m…dying. I feel like I want to live as long as Moses did.”
Odom’s sobriety has been a rocky highway even after the 2015 incident. In January, he was arrested for a DUI in Las Vegas.
These days, he tells us “I’m trying to read a lot more [and] sharpen up my brain. When I woke up [from the 2015 coma]they told me I would never walk and talk again….And so, every day is a blessing.”
The former actuality TV star – who graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Connecticut – calls himself “like an eighth grade drop out” as a result of after his mom died of most cancers when he was twelve years outdated.
At the time, “I gave up on school” he tells Page Six. He provides that he “never really put my best foot forward” when it got here to “academics” or “challenging myself in the academia world.”
“So, I’m just trying to live my best life and trying to practice being sovereign and spreading the word that it’s a beautiful thing to be present every day.”
He says that he is not attempting to take life too severely.
“Sometimes my sense of humor may be a little dark to others, but I’ve been in dark places in life.”
The documentary does not draw back from the ugly sides of habit. Kardashian, who can also be in it, discusses his infidelity onscreen, and how she used to scrub up after him, amid his drug binges.
“Hopefully my story and my testimony can give people the strength and the will to overcome the terrible brain disease of addiction, and to bring awareness, hope and faith,” Odom tells Page Six.
Odom is presently relationship Rachel Bradley, and he shares two grownup youngsters – Destiny, 28, and Lamar Jr., 24 – with his highschool sweetheart, Liza Morales. He and Morales additionally had one other son, Jayden, who died at 6 months outdated in 2006 from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
“I have a lot to live for,” he says. “Whether it’s myself, for my children, my family…I just want to focus on my relationship with God and trying to educate myself as much as possible.”
“Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom” premieres March 31 on Netflix.
