Khloe Kardashian Alleges Lamar Odom's Drug Use Spiraled Out of Control

If you think you know the Khloe and Lamar story, Netflix just dropped a doc that basically says: you do not. 'Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom' premiered Tuesday, March 31, and it is blunt. Odom, now 46, and Khloe Kardashian, 41, both sit for it, walking through the fast romance, the reality TV chapter, the addiction that blew everything up, and the coma that nearly ended his life. It is unflinching and, at times, jaw-dropping in its details.

The quick backstory

• They met in 2009, got engaged after a month, and married that same year.
• Khloe learned the depth of Lamar's drug use after they were already married.
• She filed for divorce four years later, then paused the process after his overdose left him comatose in Nevada.
• Following his recovery, she filed again. Since then, they have revisited their past on Hulu 's 'The Kardashians' and now in this Netflix doc.
• Lamar suffered six heart attacks and 12 strokes during the overdose crisis. Khloe says she stayed at the hospital for about four months.

How they actually met

According to the doc, former NBA player Metta World Peace threw an L.A. party and paid Khloe $5,000 to show up. She says she took the gig because her brother Rob asked. That night, she and Lamar first crossed paths. There is a funny, awkward meet-cute detail about Khloe razzing Lamar over a plastic bag she assumed had condoms, only for him to dump out a pile of actual candy. She says she felt dumb. Lamar, for his part, remembers trying to take things way too far, way too fast, and Khloe shutting that down immediately. Then they started seeing each other daily. It all moved at warp speed from there.

The reality TV piece

Khloe says Lamar genuinely liked being on camera and pushed to be part of her world onscreen. When a crew was about to film one day and she told him he would need to clear out, he wanted to know why. That turned into 'Khloe & Lamar' — a spinoff she says he drove. She worried about stretching herself too thin, about the Kardashian TV empire becoming overexposed, and — crucially — reminded him that his main job was still the Los Angeles Lakers.

The addiction, from casual to catastrophic

Lamar describes his first cocaine use as happening with a woman and her husband. Khloe admits that, early on, what she saw felt recreational and almost controlled. Two years into the marriage, that illusion disappeared when Lamar vanished; she says she was calling everyone she could think of. When he finally resurfaced, he tied his spiral to the grief over his infant son Jayden's death. That is when it clicked for her that this was far darker than she understood.

Then came the cheating. Lamar says that on a drug binge during a trip toward Big Bear, the woman he was with took his phone and reached out to Khloe. Khloe says she got a call from the woman claiming she had been sleeping with Lamar and wanted off the ride because he kept chasing money and drugs. Khloe suspected infidelity before that, but this was the moment she had proof.

As the years went on, Khloe says the drug use escalated and the disappearances got longer. She describes hunting for him in alleys and motels, finding foil and burned spoons, and cleaning up rooms after he had been freebasing. After Lamar was traded to the Dallas Mavericks, she says the volume and access got extreme — including a very specific detail about him knowing which painkillers would not show up on the league's tests. At one point, she recalls him locked in a hotel bathroom for roughly four days, totally divorced from time.

She is candid about her role, too: she became an enabler without realizing it, desperate to keep his public image intact and his career alive. He begged her not to tell anyone because he would lose it all, and she was 24, still figuring herself out and not exactly rolling in reality TV money yet. Off-seasons were the worst. She says he overdosed a few times, she privately pumped his stomach, brought in at-home help, and cycled him through detox centers. It is a lot. And yes, some of the drug-testing talk is very specific to how teams and leagues operate — the kind of thing you do not usually hear out loud.

The intervention that backfired

Khloe says a professional set the terms: tell him he needs a three-month rehab program, and if he refuses, tell him the marriage is over. Everyone around her assumed he would never choose divorce over help. Then he did exactly that.

'OK, all I want is my passport and let's get the f***ing divorce.'

Lamar walked out. Not long after, he went to a legal brothel in Nevada and overdosed.

Nevada, the coma, and all the fallout

That overdose nearly killed him and led to those six heart attacks and 12 strokes. Khloe says she lived at the hospital for about four months. She also recounts Lamar's dad stopping by and then leaving after she set him up with a pair of Nikes, $100, and a hotel room. Lamar is openly grateful in the doc, noting Khloe literally tended to him when he could not control his bodily functions. It is as raw as these stories get.

The last line in the sand

After Lamar was stable, Khloe set up a home for his recovery. Then she walked in on him freebasing again — sitting on the bed, smoking crack. She snapped. She says she punched him in the face, furious that she had put her life on ice to get him through hell while he was still playing her. That was it: by Monday, he had to be out, she would not fund anything else, and she did not want to speak to him again.

Where they landed

Khloe initially put the divorce on hold when he was fighting for his life, then refiled after he recovered. They have since talked through pieces of it on Hulu's 'The Kardashians' and now even more directly in Netflix's 'Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.' It is uncomfortable, brutally honest, and, if you watched their spinoff back in the day, it reframes almost everything you thought you were seeing.