Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom would have celebrated 10 years of marriage in September 2019. While their relationship ended long before then, the twosome have continued to provide insight into their loving, but often tumultuous, union over the years.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and the former Los Angeles Laker tied the knot on September 27, 2009, after one month of dating. 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 hadn’t yet signed off on their divorce in October 2015 when Odom was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel. After rushing to the athlete’s side, the Revenge Body host withdrew her pending 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 had just happened. I mean, I’m a big strong dude who has made it to the highest level of 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 a name my mother used to call me,” Odom recalled to Us in March 2017. “She said it to let me know I wasn’t dead. She played a major role in me getting my memory back. She would bring pictures of my mother and my grandmother. I kept thinking, Am I paralyzed forever? Am I mute forever? It was scary s–t. Faith got me through.”
Kardashian filed for divorce for the second time in May 2016. Their marriage was officially over in December 2016, but insiders previously told Us that Odom would “still love to be with Khloé.”
“There’s no beef between [them] at this time,” one insider noted in May 2019. “He’s always had love for her and her family.”
Scroll through to revisit their most revealing quotes:
“We love each other so much,” Odom told Us Weekly in February 2013 amid split speculation. “Sex is great. It’s on a high level. It’s intense!”
During the joint interview, Kardashian added that the pair “bicker,” but “never go to bed angry.”
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"I will never ever not love Lamar," Kardashian told E! News in April 2015 after calling it quits. "I was so obsessed with him in a healthy way. He was my husband, and I still wish he was, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that."
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“When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you’re supposed to give it all you can. That’s what marriage is about,” Kardashian told Complex in July 2015. “It’s not, ‘Let’s see if it works, if not we always have divorce.’ I am not one of those girls. You took a vow before God and you’re supposed to abide by that. I’m not rushing into my divorce because I’m not looking to get married tomorrow, so I don’t have a deadline. I’m not rushing it. So when it’s time and it’s supposed to happen, it will.”
She added at the time that Odom is “genuinely one of the best people I’ve ever met.”
"I think Lamar’s gonna always be that person [for me] but that’s what made it so special,” the E! star told the magazine. “Even if I had it for five years or whatever, it was the best ever and I’m grateful I did. Some people don’t get that ever and I had that magic for a long time."
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“I want Lamar to be happy with Lamar again. I want Lamar to fall in love with his life one more time,” Kardashian said on her then-talk show Kocktails With Khloé in March 2016. “I never wanted the divorce to begin with, but you know, I never wanted him to spiral out of control — but some people need to walk down a certain path in order to heal, so I’m just happy that he’s healing.”
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Odom told Us that Kardashian was aware of his drug addiction.
“I was hiding it for a while, but then I got frustrated and was like, f–k it. Around two years before we split up, I was in the man cave she had made for me and she caught me. She was disappointed. So was I,” the athlete said. “The sad thing about it is, I don’t know if I was disappointed because I was actually doing the drug or because she caught me. She knew I was doing cocaine the whole time after that. It was my drug of choice. I’m not going to say she accepted it because that would be the wrong word. Tolerated would be a better word.”
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Kardashian admitted that she “fake tried” to get pregnant during her marriage with Odom during the season 13 finale of KUWTK.
“I was married but I knew the circumstances weren’t the healthiest, so I just kept pretending I was doing it,” she confessed. “When I was doing my fertility treatments, they were more so for Lamar. I had to stop cause there was much deeper stuff that was happening in our marriage.”
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“My ex-wife was there in the room with me,” Odom wrote for The Players’ Tribune about his near-fatal overdose. “After all the s–t I had done, I was surprised to see her. Honestly, that’s when I knew that I was probably in bad shape.”
“Anybody who’s lived a complicated, drug-infused life like I’ve lived knows the cycle — with women, cheating on my wife, s–t like that,” he continued. “Nights when I should have been asleep. Nights when I stayed up sniffing coke. Lot of those nights.”
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The former NBA wrote in his memoir, From Darkness to Light, that he once grabbed the reality TV personality when he was under the influence.
“Khloé came down and knocked on the door. I opened it suddenly and grabbed her forcefully by the shoulders, which frightened her,” he recalled. “‘What the f–k are you doing?’ I screamed, out of my mind. ‘You trying to embarrass me in front of my friends? I’ll f–king kill you! You don’t know what I’m capable of!’”
Odom referred to the incident as “the most regrettable moment in a series of regrettable moments.”
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Odom also admitted in his memoir that cheating was a “regular part” of his relationship with Kardashian.
“I had broken my vows with Khloé so many times it’s just impossible for me to remember them all,” he wrote, noting that Kardashian once beat the “s—t out of” a stripper, who was in a hotel room with the basketball pro. “I don’t know why Khloé stayed with me.”
While a source told Us that Kardashian didn’t read Odom’s book, she congratulated him on its success via Instagram: “Look at God!!! Congratulations Lammy! Keep shining.”
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“Doing reality TV and being married to Khloé — besides having children and doing the motivational speaking I’m going to start doing — was the most memorable and the best part of my adulthood,” Odom told TMZ in July 2019. “Hopefully me going into public speaking can even bring me closer to the Kardashians and help me rebuild that bridge.”
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