Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom would celebrate 10 years of marriage in September 2019. Although their relationship ended long before then, the two have continued to offer glimpses of their loving but often tumultuous union over the years.
The Keeping up with the Kardashians The star and former Los Angeles Laker tied the knot on September 27, 2009, after dating for a month. Four years later, however, Kardashian filed for divorce in December 2013. While the paperwork was signed by the former couple in July 2015, a judge had yet to sign off on their divorce in October 2015 when Odom was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel. . After rushing to the athlete’s side, the Revenge Body host pulled her divorce papers to make medical decisions on her ex’s behalf as he recovered from 12 strokes and several heart attacks.
More than a year later, Odom broke his silence during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly. He called waking up with Kardashian by his side “a moment of relief.”
“I didn’t even know what just happened. I mean, I’m a big, strong guy who made it to the top doing what he loves. And now I can’t walk or talk. She was the first thing I saw. She said, ‘Hi, Mookah.’ ‘Mookah’ is the name my mother used to call me,” Odom recalled Us in March 2017. “She said that to tell me I’m not dead. She played a big role in getting her memory back. She would bring pictures of my mother and grandmother. I kept thinking, am I paralyzed forever? Am I mute forever? It was terrible s–t. Faith got me through.”
Kardashian filed for divorce a second time in May 2016. Their marriage officially ended in December 2016, but insiders previously said Us that Odom would “still like to be with Khloe.”
“There’s no beef in between [them] at this time,” an insider noted in May 2019. “He always loved her and her family.”
In February 2022, the former basketball player spoke candidly about his failed marriage while participating in the third season of the reality series Celebrity Big Brotherr.
“When I married Khloé, there were so many things I did wrong when it came to that relationship. If I could have it back, of course I would take it back. It was never my intention to hurt her. My mind and head were not in the right place. I didn’t take care of myself,” he said during his confession.
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