He says he angrily dismissed their request that she do interviews instead of him. The two-time National Basketball Association champion landed on Skid Row, a regular tabloid target.
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Odom’s father and two children are with him at the hospital, the source said. Lamar’s estranged wife, Khloe Kardashian, may pull the plug after Odom suffered brain damage following a massive drug overdose.
Jackson said Odom was on life support and improving. “He at least has a few responsiveness now”, Jackson said.
Khloe Kardashian and the owner of the Love Ranch are sparring over the media frenzy surrounding Lamar Odom, who is hospitalized after being found unconscious at the Nevada brothel.
“When they took him to the Pahrump hospital, the people there told us, ‘He doesn’t look good”.
Richard Hunter said Odom was snoring loudly, had his eyes closed and was unresponsive, so he called 911.
He used cocaine on his first day at the brothel Saturday, employees told 911 dispatchers, according to authorities.
“During that call, the reporting parties informed the Nye County Sheriff’s Office dispatch the male had been using cocaine”, Wehrly said.
A search warrant was ordered for Odom’s blood to confirm if and what drugs were in his system, but results of the toxicology report could take weeks.
Odom split with Kardashian in 2013 after a whirlwind romance and marriage that was captured on the TV show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and its spinoff series “Khloe and Lamar”.
Khloe Kardashian called him “Lam-Lam” and anxious openly about him on the show. They were in addition to aunts, cousins and friends “taken away from me”, he told the paper.
People always seemed to root for Odom, whose prematurely weathered face wore the impact of his personal tragedies in a friendly way.
Our thoughts are with Lamar and his friends and family.
Several basketball figures visited Odom’s bedside, including Kobe Bryant and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak. We have to cherish it and make the most of it. I hope that Odom can recover and have another chance.
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Celebrity news outlets TMZ.com and “Entertainment Tonight” reported on Thursday that Odom’s kidneys were failing and he has been placed on dialysis. The 6-foot-10 Odom was too tall for an available helicopter, so he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas.
