Lamar Odom's Ex Reveals the Day She Lost Her 6-Month-Old Son to SIDS

Liza Morales breaks her silence on her past with Lamar Odom, recalling the shattering morning she found their 6-month-old son Jayden had died and the sleepless nights that came before.

Netflix has a new Lamar Odom doc that goes straight into the chapter he and Liza Morales rarely talk about. It is raw. It is specific. And it connects a lot of dots about what came after.

Morales revisits the day everything changed

In the special, Liza Morales, 46, opens up about their son Jayden, who died at 6 months old in 2006. She and Odom, also 46, share two other kids, Destiny (27) and Lamar Jr. (23). Talking about the early months with Jayden, she remembers a wide-eyed baby who was up every two hours and a feeling that he might be her last child, so she kept telling herself to slow down and appreciate it.

Then came a trip to New York for a funeral for Odom's aunt. Morales says she overslept, did not hear Jayden wake up, went upstairs, turned him over, and his lips were blue. Firefighters rushed in, scooped him up, and they all ran to the ambulance. The cause was sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

What SIDS actually means

SIDS is the unexplained death of an otherwise healthy infant, usually within the first year of life. It is often called crib death because it happens during sleep. In the doc, Odom says even the death certificate used a vague catch-all that did not answer anything, which is exactly the kind of non-closure SIDS leaves behind.

Odom on guilt, grief, and what it did to their relationship

"The night that he passed away, I was out all night partying with my man. Then the baby just passed while asleep."

He says they identified their son's body the next day. He also notes something people who survive tragedies say a lot: loss either pulls you closer together or breaks you apart. For them, it was the latter. Odom and Morales started dating in high school. They ended things in the aftermath of Jayden's death. Odom later married Khloe Kardashian in 2009 after one month of dating.

Years later, the ripples are still there

Odom has said the loss fed into his substance abuse. He has been open about addiction issues before and after his near-fatal overdose in 2015. On a February 2022 episode of Celebrity Big Brother, he talked about how Jayden would track him around the room with his eyes and called him a special baby. He added that if Jayden had lived, he would have been around 14 or 15 in 2020-something, and that this is not the kind of wound you get over. He says dreams where Jayden visits remind him his son is not far and that they will meet again in an afterlife.

The doc and where to watch

The documentary aired Tuesday, March 31, and the Netflix title is Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom. It is streaming now.

• Liza Morales speaks in rare detail about their 6-month-old son Jayden, who died in 2006 from SIDS.
• She recalls a New York trip for Odom's aunt's funeral, oversleeping, finding Jayden with blue lips, and the rush to the ambulance.
• SIDS is an unexplained death in the first year of life, often during sleep. Odom says the death certificate offered no real answers.
• Odom admits he was out partying the night before, says the couple identified their son's body the next day, and that grief ended their relationship.
• Backstory: Odom and Morales were high school sweethearts. He later married Khloe Kardashian in 2009 after a month of dating.
• Aftermath: Odom links the loss to his substance abuse. He struggled before and after a near-fatal overdose in 2015.
• On Celebrity Big Brother in Feb. 2022, he called Jayden a special baby whose eyes followed him, said he would be around 14 or 15 now, and talked about dreams where Jayden visits.
• Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom is available on Netflix.