Lamar Odom wants to set the record straight about Khloé Kardashian’s role in his recovery following the release of Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom on Netflix.
During an interview on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle, Odom seemed to downplay Kardashian’s claims of saving his life.
“She stood by your side, she saved your life,” Bush Hager tells Odom. “Do you feel that way?”
“In some ways,” Odom responded. “God saved my life. My Lord saved my life, honestly.”
“Khloe stepped in… and stayed by your side,” Bush Hager continued.
“A lot of us were saying, ‘She rode hard for you,’” Jones added.
“Yeah, she took care of me,” Odom admitted. “But God took care of me the most. What I came back from is like a medical miracle.”
In the doc, Kardashian said upon arriving at the hospital in Nevada, Odon’s estranged father Joe, who passed away in 2021, was telling doctors to pull the plug.
“I assume, [he] thought he’s now the beneficiary of Lamar,” Kardahsinan said. “And Joe just said, ‘Don’t put him on life support. Turn those machines off.’”
Kardashian also said that after she gave “him $100 and a new pair of Nikes,” he left the facility.
“And Joe left and never came back,” she said.
Lamar doesn’t believe Kardashians’ recollection of the events.
“You know, I was knocked out and asleep at that time,” he said. “If you know Joe Odom, I don’t think that’s something he would ever come out of his mouth. He was my biggest fan. I don’t know where that got mistranslated.”
After leaving the hospital, Kardashian said she “rented him a home near hers in Calabasas and even paid for him to have a caretaker and chef.” But when she saw him smoking crack cocaine, she threw in the towel.
“I just punched him in the face,” she confessed. “I just put my life on hold to f—ing take care of you… He was playing me so I could continue this lifestyle for him.”
Eventually, she kicked him out of the home.
“I never want to speak to you again,” she said in the doc.