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00:00:21I'm working here, maybe just a couple of months, and my boss says to me, hey, the art gallery
00:00:29exhibit that we have. I'm taking all that out. I've got a new exhibit. You're not going to believe
00:00:34what I got. Come in the room, and he has reassembled the bed and the nightstands and the
00:00:41mirrors from the room that Lamar Odomo deed on, and this is the bed.
00:00:55This is the location of one of the most harrowing experiences of my life, and it somehow followed
00:01:09me from the Love Ranch all the way to my next job at the Haunted Museum.
00:01:16Ryan to Odom, Odom, oh, drops it down!
00:01:20This story is everywhere. Everyone's buzzing about Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom.
00:01:24You have Khloe Kardashian getting married to Lamar Odom in this lavish, star-studded wedding.
00:01:29One of them are going behind the back. Are you kidding me?
00:01:32I'm afraid of death. I'm afraid of, you know, not being here.
00:01:37After a week of headlines about possible drug and marital problems, Odom has been arrested.
00:01:42Could you imagine if Lamar Odom would have passed away and they had to really put me in the ground?
00:01:47Lamar Odom found unconscious at a brothel.
00:01:50Multiple strokes, brain damage.
00:01:51He has not woken up, and the condition is dire.
00:01:56I had 12 strokes and 6 heart attacks, dude. Like, that's not no average shit.
00:02:02Do you know who this is?
00:02:04This is your son.
00:02:07And we call him LJ.
00:02:09I was dead for 3 days.
00:02:12I made it, though.
00:02:30Breathe through your nose.
00:02:34Feel the inhale.
00:02:37Let the breath out.
00:02:41Feel your feet.
00:02:44Likes your thigh.
00:02:49Carry it up through your spine.
00:02:53Feel the breath going in.
00:02:56And now out.
00:03:00That kind of thing.
00:03:03When I've described the type of methods that I've used over the past 25 years of coaching,
00:03:10we used the term, one breath, one mind.
00:03:13There's a certain sense that I want players to have about what I consider is a correct way or an
00:03:20appropriate way to live life.
00:03:21But I think it's important for them to continue to grow as young men.
00:03:24I usually say that it's transformational rather than transactional and meeting the individual where he's at.
00:03:31The Lakers' offseason started with talks of a 70-plus win season.
00:03:36But now they have a recurring problem to tend to, the on-again, now-off-again relationship between Kobe and
00:03:42Shaquille O'Neal.
00:03:43People wanted me to just kind of level off my play.
00:03:45And I'm not going to do that.
00:03:47I've always wanted to be a team player.
00:03:48And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded.
00:03:51Kobe said it doesn't matter whose team it is.
00:03:53No more coming into camp fattened out of shape.
00:03:55Kobe wants to win rings without Shaquille O'Neal.
00:04:00In 2004, Shaq felt he was betrayed a little bit.
00:04:04And the decision was made to stand behind Kobe and make him a long-term part of the Laker organization.
00:04:10The major headline around the league tonight, the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat have agreed to a trade
00:04:16that will send Shaquille O'Neal, one of the greatest big men of all time, to sunny South Florida.
00:04:21So, Shaq left, Kobe was there, and Lamar came in the trade.
00:04:26They traded Shaquille O'Neal to Miami for three players who will give L.A.'s roster a very different look.
00:04:32There are big changes that are on this team, and there's some unknowns.
00:04:37We have a lot of young players who have something to prove, and I'm excited.
00:04:42From Rhode Island to Lamar Odom.
00:04:45It's crazy, because I was a clipper before that.
00:04:48It sends it to Odom. Odom, baseline once again.
00:04:51So, I was always like, like, damn, it looked good over there.
00:04:56You know, obviously, from coming from the Clippers to the Heat, then back to the Lakers was a dream come
00:05:02true.
00:05:03With Lamar, you know, there are things that we kind of accommodated to kind of settle in.
00:05:08He had had one incident, a suspension, by the Los Angeles Clippers.
00:05:13I'm disappointed in myself for not handling myself correctly.
00:05:17Or substance abuse, or whatever they called it.
00:05:20And then had been subsequently traded from them to Miami.
00:05:24My new crew, my new crew.
00:05:26He was a player that wasn't used to the discipline of format or intensive training.
00:05:34But you could see that his greatness was also there.
00:05:37Over here by the Lakers, let's see if they can catch it.
00:05:40Oh, about that!
00:05:43And then, really, his teammates supported him.
00:05:47You know, there's a community, and Lamar really likes the teams.
00:05:51It's his family.
00:05:55Home rooms were by last name, alphabetical order.
00:05:58So, I'm Em, he's O.
00:06:00So, we met, like, pretty much first day.
00:06:03Sometimes I would see him in the back of the bus, that's where all the cool kids hung out.
00:06:07But other times when I wouldn't see him in the bus, it's because he would show up after the homeroom
00:06:11bell, sometimes putting on his tie.
00:06:13He's still, he's half-dressed, brushing his teeth.
00:06:16He was always on his own time.
00:06:18I was seeing somebody that he knew too, and I remember I was, like, crying in homeroom.
00:06:24And Lamar was like, don't cry around him.
00:06:27This is why you need to give me a chance.
00:06:29He always had charisma.
00:06:30Back then, I didn't know it was charisma.
00:06:33Everybody was just always drawn to him.
00:06:35I wasn't unique.
00:06:38He knew how to, pretty much, he knew how to charm.
00:06:42I'll just say that.
00:06:44And these are facts from the Brooklyn Diocese and Basketball Division.
00:06:50Now, this is his high school picture at Christ the King.
00:06:55Here he is right there.
00:06:57We came to Queens in 1957.
00:07:00I was four, and Kathy was two weeks old.
00:07:05She had seen Lamar when she was 22.
00:07:08And when she had Lamar, she was going to name him Lamar.
00:07:13And I said, Kathy, that's a sissy name.
00:07:16Name him Lamar.
00:07:17So she let me name him Lamar.
00:07:19This is Lamar here.
00:07:22And God's sons, my nephew, Sherrod.
00:07:26Lamar's father was Joe.
00:07:28They had a big wedding.
00:07:29It was a big wedding.
00:07:31And then after a while, it was a strange marriage.
00:07:35My father was a, um, he gave in to, he gave in to, you know, into drugs.
00:07:41That's why my mother left him.
00:07:42He didn't want to stop.
00:07:44I see him maybe like once a month.
00:07:46He come through, give me some money or whatever, and leave.
00:07:49But my mom was a real cool, down-to-earth woman.
00:07:53She was pretty, and she was tall.
00:07:56I remember my mother getting sick.
00:07:58We were coming from the Poconos, and she was complaining.
00:08:00Her stomach was hurting.
00:08:02Her first trip in between, you know, going to the hospital and then coming back to the hospital,
00:08:07it was like it was two different people.
00:08:08She had lost so much weight.
00:08:10So they had a diagnosis in January, and she was gone two days after this, 4th of July.
00:08:16So July 6th, she was gone.
00:08:21I want to honor my sister, Kathy.
00:08:24She passed away when Lamar was 10.
00:08:27And this is us at a party.
00:08:30You know, I put this here because she's my angel.
00:08:33I just took the basketball and just went to the park.
00:08:37Stayed out all night and shot the rock.
00:08:41You know, basketball always knew it was going to be my way.
00:08:48When he started playing, the ninth grade, he was like 5'10".
00:08:53Came back, he shot up to 6'7".
00:08:58And then he shot up after that.
00:09:00This guy, Lamar Odom, with the basketball at 6'9", is considered by many people to be the best of
00:09:05the high school class of 1997.
00:09:07At Christy King, I wound up winning the city championship.
00:09:10I had like 35 points.
00:09:12So I kind of knew about attention.
00:09:15I didn't know, you know, how and how much I was going to get.
00:09:18He was becoming, like, more known and getting in headlines and stuff like that.
00:09:24He ended up going to Rhode Island for college.
00:09:27It was only a few hours away, like four hours drive.
00:09:30And so he would come down to Queens, hang out with his friends.
00:09:33He would see me.
00:09:35It was one of those visits that he came down to Queens and, boop, I ended up getting pregnant with
00:09:43Destiny.
00:09:48And so we had our own little, like, family unit, you know?
00:09:51Mind you, we're like 19, 20 years old.
00:09:54We're babies ourselves.
00:09:55But he wasn't, like, that ever-present father because he couldn't be.
00:10:0030 feet away, jumper in the air.
00:10:04Lamar Odom has won it for Rhode Island!
00:10:07Obviously, his goal was to go to the league.
00:10:09So I feel like there was a lot of distractions, a lot of people.
00:10:12He would just introduce me to people, and I would just be like, hi, what am I going to do?
00:10:16That actually happened at our daughter's baptism as well.
00:10:19Somebody shook my hand.
00:10:20I didn't know who they were.
00:10:21And Lamar wanted him to be the godfather of Destiny.
00:10:23I had never met the man.
00:10:25There's a lot at stake for the star sophomore.
00:10:27He could possibly be the top draft pick in the country.
00:10:31We were all there at the draft.
00:10:33My mother, my cousin Brenda, my sister Sandy was there, Michael's wife, my brother's wife, Wanda.
00:10:40Good evening, and welcome to the 1999 NBA draft.
00:10:45My cousin Gerald, my cousin Lisa, the boys.
00:10:49We got our boys that used to live in the Bronx, the Ohio boys, I call them.
00:10:52With the fourth pick in the 1999 NBA draft, the Los Angeles Clippers select...
00:10:58You know what he told me?
00:10:59Any team but the Clippers.
00:11:00Lamar Odom from the University of Rhode Island.
00:11:10I remember I didn't want him to go to L.A.
00:11:15And I just knew, like, Hollywood, L.A., like, hot mess.
00:11:19Like, you lose your soul.
00:11:22When they ended up coming back from the draft, we were on my stoop, and he was like,
00:11:28you need to come with me to L.A.
00:11:30I need my family.
00:11:32I want you and Destiny with me.
00:11:34And I was like, we're a family, and if he's telling me he wants me to go, I'm gonna go.
00:11:42We got a place in Marina Del Rey.
00:11:44I remember I flew out with his aunt, Janine, and Destiny.
00:11:48You know, when they moved to L.A. and they had the penthouse, I came out there, and I saw
00:11:53how things was going.
00:11:54I said, okay, now we gotta go shopping.
00:11:56That was, like, my first time, like, seeing, like, people who were, like, you know, in the public eye.
00:12:00I was like, wow, these people are, like, people that I see on the TV.
00:12:03Lamar was always gone.
00:12:05He had press.
00:12:05All these things that I had to learn really quickly that this was gonna be his schedule.
00:12:12So I do feel like he was getting more busy and more stressed.
00:12:16And then our son, L.J., is born.
00:12:18So it was a lot in our family, like, timeline.
00:12:24Lamar did really well with the Clippers.
00:12:29But at the time, nobody stayed with the Clippers.
00:12:33And so he knew he wanted to leave, and he ended up going to Miami.
00:12:38Coast to coast, it counts.
00:12:39Got traded for Shaq.
00:12:43And then I got pregnant.
00:12:48Jaden was, he was just so curious.
00:12:52He had big eyes, and he would look around the room.
00:12:57And I do remember I was just exhausted, because he'd be up, like, every two hours, two and a half
00:13:01hours.
00:13:02I did think he'd be my last child.
00:13:04And I remember saying to myself, appreciate this, because something was telling me to enjoy that moment.
00:13:11We went to New York for a funeral for Lamar's aunt.
00:13:15And we had a home, like, on the border of, like, Long Island and Queens.
00:13:21And I remember oversleeping, and I remember, like, oh, I didn't hear Jaden waking up.
00:13:28And my mom was, like, making breakfast for the kids or something, and I was like, oh, I just, I
00:13:33was like, can you believe Jaden's still sleeping?
00:13:34Like, I was like, can you believe that?
00:13:36She was like, really?
00:13:37She's like, he's okay, right?
00:13:38And I was like, yeah.
00:13:40So we just went upstairs, and I just remember, like, turning him over, and his lips were blue.
00:13:49And, uh, yeah, like, and my mother, I just remember my mother just screaming, like, call 911, call 911.
00:13:59I just saw the fire, uh, fireman just grab him up like a football, and just ran to the, uh,
00:14:10ambulance.
00:14:13Get to the hospital, and I just remember, like, a woman doctor, and she was just like, I'm so sorry.
00:14:23And she was just like, I'm so sorry.
00:14:26And she was just like, we tried everything, and she was like, I'm so sorry.
00:14:34At that point, Lamar, he got to the hospital, and, like, they showed him where to go, where the room
00:14:40I was in, and, um, I mean, he was just so cold.
00:14:46And I just knew, like, it was just a shell.
00:14:57Um, sudden infant death syndrome.
00:15:02So, um, when you get the death certificate, it just says, not undisclosed, not undescribed.
00:15:14They give you an unword that doesn't really answer any questions.
00:15:20I didn't really cry too much when he, when he passed away.
00:15:24And then think about the night that he passed away, I was out all night partying with my man.
00:15:31And then the baby just looked like he's asleep.
00:15:35No scars, no hemorrhages, no nothing.
00:15:39Yeah, I remember when my, um, me and my cousin, Sherrod, went to go identify his body the next day.
00:15:46Just look sleepy.
00:15:50Well, they say that people that go through that, that he either brings them together and makes them extremely strong,
00:15:56or it brings them apart.
00:16:00But it was the summer, and Lamar always went back to get ready for the game.
00:16:07And this time was different.
00:16:10Um, I didn't want to go back.
00:16:14Um, and I told him that.
00:16:18Um, I gotta go back to work.
00:16:23I can't, you know what I mean?
00:16:25If you want to stay here and you stay in, you know, New York,
00:16:28you chose to stay in New York but move from the place where he, um, passed away from.
00:16:35And, uh, that was that.
00:16:40I just probably just knew my place.
00:16:42I don't mean, I was, well, something would do.
00:16:43I don't expect people to pity me.
00:16:46You know, it happens.
00:16:51It's just, I mean, it's just something that's going to make me a much stronger individual.
00:16:56There's been points in my life where it made me, like, I don't know if basketball is going to make
00:16:59me feel better.
00:17:00Like, you know what I mean?
00:17:00Like, my son dying was one of those times.
00:17:07We've all been through some shit.
00:17:11You know, us being here and then us not being here is just like,
00:17:15I don't care who the fuck knows.
00:17:18I don't care who your God is.
00:17:21Allah, Jehovah,
00:17:24Christ,
00:17:26Kobe,
00:17:28but, um,
00:17:30you will have to give yourself up to something.
00:17:40I'm a little bit, I don't know, wakey, wakey, but I'm out.
00:17:47Hanging out in L.A., my agent, David Bowman, said, the Lakers want to speak to you.
00:17:50Uh, they want to sign you.
00:17:52I'm like, what?
00:17:54I just couldn't believe it.
00:17:57Ron Artest joining the Lakers show.
00:17:59Two years ago, he told Kobe Bryant that he wanted to help him win a championship,
00:18:02and now that day has finally arrived.
00:18:04I wanted to be a part of the Lakers for a long time.
00:18:07And then you throw Phil Jackson in the mix.
00:18:09Who would pass on the opportunity?
00:18:11Being a Laker is way different.
00:18:13You know, it's Hollywood.
00:18:15So, they're definitely performing for the stars.
00:18:18Let's see, where's TMZ?
00:18:20You're not here?
00:18:21I mean, I think the key to L.A. is, like, if you're going to be here, you might as
00:18:24well level up.
00:18:26I think if you use it the right way, I think it can help you.
00:18:29You know, Lamar means famous throughout the land.
00:18:31That's one of the means of the name.
00:18:34You know, me being who I was at the time,
00:18:36I wasn't an extra super, super duper star yet.
00:18:39I still had to cross that path of trying to be A-lister.
00:18:44I found the A-lister party last night when I was doing research.
00:18:48They don't want to give me my shine.
00:18:50Welcome to L.A. party.
00:18:51Is Chloe on there?
00:18:52I know, I don't think so.
00:18:54That's a horrible flyer.
00:18:55You see that flyer?
00:18:56So, I had a welcome to L.A. party.
00:18:59And then, um, I was trying to see who could I get to host my party with me.
00:19:03And Chloe was nice enough to accept.
00:19:06So, we paid her $5,000 at the time.
00:19:09Sorry, Chloe.
00:19:10I know your price is way high now.
00:19:12I'm not exactly sure how I got that gig because I never really knew a lot about basketball.
00:19:21My brother was so excited.
00:19:23So, I took the job or I agreed to do it really for my brother.
00:19:31She was there.
00:19:32I didn't even know.
00:19:33Honestly, honest to God, I didn't know who she was.
00:19:36It's called Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
00:19:38I'm Chloe.
00:19:39My sister said I'm a bitch.
00:19:42Parents, shut up, everyone.
00:19:44Prior to this party, I did not know who Lamar was.
00:19:47I remember he had a plastic bag.
00:19:49And I was like, what's in your bag?
00:19:52And he's like, candy.
00:19:53And I'm like, you're such a liar.
00:19:56I, like, made up this whole thing.
00:19:57I was like, you probably have condoms in that bag.
00:19:59And I'm like, let me see what's in the bag.
00:20:01And I remember he poured it out.
00:20:02It was all candy and only candy.
00:20:05And I felt so stupid.
00:20:07You know, the first night, I mean, honestly, I was trying to fuck her the first night.
00:20:10I was like, no, it ain't that type of party.
00:20:14Got with her the next day, and then the next day to the next day, and then the next day
00:20:17to the next day, and the next day to the next day, and then the next day to the next
00:20:19day.
00:20:19Chloe.
00:20:20We're excited.
00:20:21Did you marry me?
00:20:23Why the hell?
00:20:23Oh, my God.
00:20:27As much as I can say I know her, you know, I knew her, but I don't really know the
00:20:32person
00:20:32in 30 days.
00:20:33Yeah, it's crazy.
00:20:34You got to have a gut feeling like a big dick, some big balls.
00:20:39Which will last longer, the marriage of Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom, or this pumpkin?
00:20:48I do like to consider myself pretty level-headed.
00:20:53I really do.
00:20:55But the cynicism of people judging, and is this a real relationship, or is it not?
00:21:02I totally understood.
00:21:03I mean, we were getting married in 30 days.
00:21:05So, that is insane.
00:21:09Is Lamar Odom making the biggest mistake any Laker has ever made?
00:21:14Let's go to you.
00:21:17I can't remember what tabloid, but for our wedding, someone wanted the exclusive.
00:21:22And then they said, we want the exclusive of the wedding.
00:21:25But if we do that, can we also get the exclusive of the divorce?
00:21:29Are we going to be best man, or what?
00:21:32You're getting married tomorrow!
00:21:34First, I think he texted me, like, oh, I'm getting married.
00:21:38I really thought he was joking.
00:21:40I said, my God, come on now.
00:21:41That's too soon.
00:21:42I said, things like that don't work out.
00:21:45Falling in love the way we fell in love, as quickly as we did, is so not my personality.
00:21:52But he's so charismatic.
00:21:55He's fun and silly.
00:21:56And then he also is a very vulnerable person.
00:22:00He's very honest about his life and what has transpired in his life.
00:22:04My mom couldn't help wanting to, like, nurture and coddle and care for him.
00:22:09People try to, you know, stare at me away or, you know what I mean?
00:22:13Like, my baby's mother didn't let them come to my wedding.
00:22:16My kids didn't come to my wedding.
00:22:18Stuff like that.
00:22:19I never even met her.
00:22:21I don't think he told me he was marrying her.
00:22:24I just didn't want to be a show pony or anything like that.
00:22:28If you want to get married, like, in front of, like, 100 people and all these cameras,
00:22:34like, that's totally cool and it's on you.
00:22:36Of course, when you decide to get married to somebody in 30 days, of course it's going to hurt.
00:22:41And then on top of it, let me just stick it to you a little bit more, it's going to
00:22:43be on television.
00:22:48Yeah, I went to the wedding.
00:22:49It was unusual.
00:22:51It was a Hollywood thing.
00:22:55I kind of felt sorry for Lamar to maybe have to keep up with that.
00:23:00Ron, anybody work for us?
00:23:01I know Lamar longer than everybody here and I'm in, like, the back table, you know what I mean?
00:23:07So me and Lamar still have things to talk about.
00:23:09You know, he didn't invite none of us, you know that.
00:23:11Okay, hold on.
00:23:11None of us.
00:23:13Oh, uh, Pumpkin was there.
00:23:16I knew Lamar as a friend since he was nine years old.
00:23:19I'm five years older, so it was like a big brother that he didn't have.
00:23:23So I wound up going to the wedding that night, and he came and talked me for two hours.
00:23:28He was explaining, like, the move that he's doing.
00:23:31He was doing it to try to better his future.
00:23:36I'm already Lamar older, and I'm just kind of, like, watching how she lived and their lifestyle, and I'm like,
00:23:41I know this is where I want to be.
00:23:44Like, this is how I want to live.
00:23:52And then 75, 80% of the guests was 60 to 70 years old.
00:23:57So I'm sitting there saying, where is this coming from?
00:24:00I think he did it because you probably thought I would say, I want to say something.
00:24:06I think that was like a power trip for me.
00:24:09Because you took the power that I had, like, Earl Champs, and then Kardashian power, and Adam.
00:24:14Because of your desire to build a marriage for the ages, from this day forward, you are husband and wife.
00:24:24I wasn't really ready for all that power.
00:24:28Lamar loves a camera.
00:24:30I remember I had a photo shoot, and I remember saying, we can hang out for a little bit, but
00:24:36then you have to leave because the camera crew's coming, and we're going to film a little bit later.
00:24:41He was like, why do I have to leave? Because the cameras are coming.
00:24:53Someone was a genius. Reality TV. Whoever brought that up? Trickery. Foolery.
00:25:01What up, Henry?
00:25:02Henry Longman.
00:25:04Lamar!
00:25:05Chloe and Lamar was not my idea. Chloe and Lamar was led very much by Lamar.
00:25:11You took me to the cash block.
00:25:13I don't know what that means whenever you say it.
00:25:15I was spread really thin. I also didn't really want it to jeopardize the family brand, which was keeping up
00:25:22at the time.
00:25:23I thought there were so many Kardashian shows.
00:25:26And I reminded him about his main career, the Lakers, and just said, are you sure you want to do
00:25:33it?
00:25:34Queens, this is California. In California, we push people.
00:25:38Oh, she is on one today.
00:25:39We wound up having our own show, and it came on Sundays, which was, you know, like right after the
00:25:46Lakers game.
00:25:46I was on TV twice every Sunday.
00:25:48Wait, Lamar, this is very uncomfortable.
00:25:50I'm sorry.
00:25:51Like, he did love Chloe, but he wanted to be on reality TV for a long time.
00:25:58Okay.
00:26:00But part of the deal was that if I'm going to marry you, fuck it.
00:26:03I want in, too.
00:26:09He wanted a different life outside of basketball.
00:26:18The gag is, I used to watch the Kardashians.
00:26:22Let's have a picnic out here.
00:26:25With my family show, I bounce around to different homes, and it's not under a microscope.
00:26:30So I was a little concerned about a reality show that was going to be in our home all the
00:26:35time.
00:26:36But I also wanted to do what made him happy, and he was so excited about it.
00:26:40I can tell the difference of an NBA fan or someone that knows me as Lammy.
00:26:45Mr. Lammy.
00:26:46He used to call me on the show, which is kind of cool, but it's weird.
00:26:54I bet, honestly, I'm going to be honest with you.
00:26:56When he was married to Chloe, I looked forward to Christmas, because I was like, hey, I know
00:27:01Chris and Chloe, they're going to give me some good presents.
00:27:03I think when Odom plays his best, they're almost undefeated.
00:27:09Ryan to Odom, Odom.
00:27:10Oh, throws it down!
00:27:12And a foul!
00:27:14Laker games, at this era, it was the center of the universe.
00:27:18I'm going behind the back!
00:27:20Are you kidding me?
00:27:21All of L.A. was at these games.
00:27:24Odom a drive.
00:27:25Pretty move, Lamar Odom.
00:27:27Stepping in rhythm, knocking down James.
00:27:30Here's the Lamar Odom show.
00:27:31I'm like, okay, last year I have no idea what even dribbling a basketball meant.
00:27:37Introducing a one-of-a-kind no-sex fragrance, Unbreakable, by Chloe and Lamar.
00:27:42I mean, it was the coolest, coolest time in my life.
00:27:45It really was.
00:27:46I mean, I could definitely see a switch in my lifestyle.
00:27:49You're talking about if a red carpet rolled out for you as an individual, now we get the
00:27:55sand carpet.
00:27:59I think they helped me kind of, like, step into who I am a little bit more.
00:28:03You're on more commercials than Tiger, and I do believe, and I believe you also have a
00:28:09better marriage.
00:28:10We're both living a rock star kind of lifestyle.
00:28:13I think we drove Kobe crazy, by the way.
00:28:16I'm rapping.
00:28:18Lamar's doing reality shows.
00:28:19But we came to practice.
00:28:23Breathe through your nose.
00:28:27Let the breath out.
00:28:31I was like, I wouldn't say oblivious to it, but like, no, we have too strong a bond here.
00:28:36We're quiet in here.
00:28:37We're kind of centered in here.
00:28:40This is stronger than that.
00:28:42Outside noise is.
00:28:45And it worked.
00:28:47Odom to Gasol.
00:28:48Back to Odom.
00:28:49Up and under.
00:28:50And that's in.
00:28:51Mar-Odom emerging with big plays here in the second half.
00:28:54The Los Angeles Lakers are world champions of basketball.
00:29:02About an hour away from the beginning of the parade as it commences at Staples Center and
00:29:06winds its way down Figueroa.
00:29:09I remember when he won the first championship.
00:29:12We wanted to go to the parade and celebrate that moment with him and be a part of it.
00:29:17Parade route that is just lined with exuberant Laker fans, and we've got it all for you live
00:29:22throughout the entire morning.
00:29:24They missed school that day.
00:29:25I remember they told me, they told like their classmates, we're not going to be here tomorrow.
00:29:28We're going to the parade.
00:29:30They drove to Manhattan Beach to Lamar's place.
00:29:32They called me.
00:29:33They were like, he's not answering the door, but I know he's in there.
00:29:36We were knocking on the door, and there was nothing.
00:29:38It was just silence.
00:29:40Kobe, Bean, Brian, and family.
00:29:42There he is in a huge ovation.
00:29:44What a day for L.A., though.
00:29:46One of his friends did a calling and saying, look, Lamar's here, but like, you know, he
00:29:52partied last night, and like, he doesn't want, like, the kids to see him like this.
00:29:56He doesn't think he's going to the parade.
00:30:00We ended up watching it on TV, and the trainer at the time got his butt up, and they were
00:30:07like, you've got to go to the parade.
00:30:08You cannot not show.
00:30:10L.O., as we take a look at Lamar Odom coming onto the bus and just wanting to win a
00:30:14championship
00:30:15and get that stigma off of his back.
00:30:17What a great year for L.O.
00:30:19He was on the float with his trainer, and my kids were watching like, wow, he ended up going.
00:30:27And it was just, yeah, they were so devastated.
00:30:31It was terrible.
00:30:35Lamar, man.
00:30:36First of all, how was that ride down here, and what's this scene look like to you?
00:30:39Amazing.
00:30:40Incredible.
00:30:41Never thought this day would come in my life.
00:30:43It's beautiful.
00:30:43We always talk about good people, hearts of gold.
00:30:49No one is better than L.O.
00:30:52Lamar Odom.
00:30:57Rejection from a parent is, it's extremely hard and hurtful, and it definitely pains
00:31:04your development growing up.
00:31:06There's some moments that like you never forget.
00:31:09Well, now I know that like he was partying and using.
00:31:17That first hit of cocaine that I took was amazing.
00:31:23I was with a woman, she was with her husband.
00:31:25It was in Miami.
00:31:28You know what I mean?
00:31:30Do I regret it?
00:31:31Fuck yeah.
00:31:33Yeah, some people regret some of their best moments in life.
00:31:41I mean, it was a high.
00:31:42I know cocaine is not the way to go, but it's the high that feels so good.
00:31:46You wish you can capture it and put it in a bottle so you can take it, so you can
00:31:50have
00:31:50it the next day, but it don't work.
00:31:53Make that with drugs.
00:31:56But then you're at the age, too, where if I use cocaine for a month straight and then
00:32:00I stop and then, you know, work out, eat, I can get my physique back.
00:32:06Well, I mean, he's a team player.
00:32:08He's extremely selfish, and I think that's a true mark of a champion.
00:32:11He's the best sixth man in the league this year, and he's, you know, beyond well-deserving
00:32:15of the award.
00:32:16To my family, my wife, my mother-in-law, and my, you know, my teammates, it's been a
00:32:23long time coming.
00:32:24You know what I'm saying?
00:32:25I've learned so much from, you know, the dudes in my locker room, because I'm blessed.
00:32:33And, you know, there's a couple of people here I wish that I was here to see it, you know?
00:32:42Well, but I just want to let y'all know I'm thankful, man.
00:32:50At the beginning, it was a recreational party, you sure, but it just, it seemed, as silly
00:32:57as this sounds, it seemed responsibly done.
00:33:02And I think it was two years in, around June, he disappeared.
00:33:09I really thought maybe something happened to him.
00:33:11I remember calling anyone and everyone, trying to find him.
00:33:15And he did come home.
00:33:17He, I don't want to say blamed a lot, but his reasoning for why this happened was because
00:33:23of Jaden's passing, and June is so hard for him.
00:33:26And that was the first time I was like, okay, this is something I've never experienced.
00:33:31This is a dark situation, and I don't know what to do.
00:33:39There was the championship parade where you and the kids were all going to go together,
00:33:43but then you wound up going alone.
00:33:45Do you remember that?
00:33:46I can't say I do.
00:33:48But, you know, when you, when you, when you're on drugs, there's always going to be embarrassment.
00:33:54Especially when you're calling it addiction.
00:33:57I'm pretty sure there's a lot more stories that I can't really remember because of where
00:34:02I was at, at that time in my life.
00:34:06You know, a lot of people do drugs, and they had the best, you know, 15 minute high of their
00:34:11life, and they can wait to do it next Friday or a week after they did it.
00:34:16And some people, when you do it, you unlock a vote that you can't really control.
00:34:26I think this is where he felt his dark side started to come.
00:34:32He lost track of what reality was in life.
00:34:35He's in this bubble with this thing.
00:34:45I remember, even in high school, first report card, ninth grade year, I fell four classes.
00:34:53And it wasn't a, um, like a repercussion.
00:35:00And it didn't get no better.
00:35:03Like, I don't know, like, when I think about it, like cheating on my wife.
00:35:08Like, how sick would your brain have to be?
00:35:11If you, you know who you are, like, what the fuck would make you think that you will marry
00:35:15this woman on TV and then go have affairs?
00:35:22Unbreakable.
00:35:23I'm going to keep making.
00:35:24Making.
00:35:26And if Chloe's on his hand, I guess I'll still be on it, too.
00:35:33He had said to me one time, I'll be partying with people that they can party for six months
00:35:38and go to work.
00:35:40And I'm sitting there saying, what crowd you around now?
00:35:43I can remember one night going to Big Bear and I'm getting high out of my fucking mind.
00:35:53The girl that I was with at the time, she must have been so, so blown back by it that
00:35:59she must have took my phone and contacted my wife.
00:36:04I'm calling him again.
00:36:06He's missing.
00:36:07I can't find him.
00:36:08And then out of the blue, I get this call and I'm like, hello?
00:36:12And she's like, hi, I've been fucking your husband.
00:36:15He is so fucked up and he just keeps wanting money and drugs and I got to get off this
00:36:20ride.
00:36:21So will you come and pick him up?
00:36:23She's like, I called your mom a little bit ago because I didn't know if I should call you.
00:36:28I never knew for sure that he was sleeping with other people.
00:36:32Of course, I had suspicions, but I never had anything tangible.
00:36:36I can remember me taking a big line of cocaine.
00:36:42And all I hear is, blame me.
00:36:45And I see Kris Jenner's face come around the doorway.
00:36:57It became, um, crazy is when, like, the word out in the streets hit, like, I was a coke head
00:37:05or he does coke.
00:37:05It didn't, it became a nuisance when they wanted to find me doing something that I wasn't supposed
00:37:11to do.
00:37:13So you don't have a drug problem, right?
00:37:14No.
00:37:16Do you think you need help?
00:37:16Do you think you need professional help?
00:37:18No.
00:37:19Spoken to Chloe, man?
00:37:21Of course, my wife, bro.
00:37:23So you're smoking to her, right?
00:37:24Of course.
00:37:27If you could go back and you have the timeline of all these dates and all these important
00:37:31events in his life and you go all the way back, he had no foundation.
00:37:35And then you get married and all the pressure of it.
00:37:37And then you're on a championship team.
00:37:38And you can't keep up a facade anymore.
00:37:42It's all going to crash.
00:37:48No antagonizers.
00:37:48You just told them, don't run me over.
00:37:50Now you're trying to antagonize him.
00:37:53You know, you wonder where your dad is.
00:37:54You know, where is he at?
00:37:55What is he doing?
00:37:57You know, obviously I miss him.
00:37:58You know, I want to see him.
00:37:59But, you know, he wasn't, he wasn't there.
00:38:02All these things were happening.
00:38:04The drug buildup was getting worse and worse.
00:38:06And then there were many times Lamar would go for 12 hours or two days and escape rehab
00:38:11and go to a drug bender and no one could find him and whatever.
00:38:15I was either looking for him in alleys, looking for him in motels.
00:38:19He would have tinfoil cutouts or spoons and freebasing things and leaving things everywhere.
00:38:24And I remember needing to go to hotel rooms to clean up after him.
00:38:29So the housekeeping didn't sell a story.
00:38:31I was such an enabler without knowing I was an enabler.
00:38:35But I just felt such a responsibility to cover this up, hold it together and protect him.
00:38:43Being an addict to sex or drugs, they don't have no race, color, or creed.
00:38:51And what's done in the dark comes out in the light.
00:38:54Another thing my grandmother just told me.
00:38:59I don't believe in what y'all do.
00:39:01You feel what I'm saying?
00:39:02I don't believe in following people around.
00:39:04Me and that girl fell in love.
00:39:06You feel me?
00:39:06If we want to give you in, if we want to let you in our house, we can let you
00:39:09in.
00:39:10And we can kick you out at the same time.
00:39:12When I really discovered that there was a problem, he was like,
00:39:16you cannot tell anyone I'll lose at all.
00:39:18And if I lose it, like, where are we going to live?
00:39:21What are we going to do?
00:39:22And at the time, I was 24.
00:39:24I'm still trying to figure out my life.
00:39:26I had the show, but we weren't, like, making money like that.
00:39:30I remember just keeping all these secrets and feeling horrible about myself.
00:39:35I think youth had a lot to play with it.
00:39:38My first real love.
00:39:40And then you just feel for this person, and then you sort of rationalize,
00:39:44well, this person died, and this person, and my dad's a heroin addict, and of course you're like this.
00:39:49So now let me try to fix you and show you, if I love you enough, I'm going to make
00:39:55you better.
00:39:55But I was fighting every single day, either to protect him, to not let him get caught, which sounds insane,
00:40:05to make sure his image, how he looked, how he presented himself to the outwardly world, was still that Lamar
00:40:11Odom.
00:40:13I didn't sleep for years.
00:40:15Had an enormous amount of power in the city.
00:40:17My wife was just as popular as I was.
00:40:19How's your sister doing?
00:40:20I was just sick.
00:40:22Then everything just changed.
00:40:26I remember he was driving to the Laker facility to go to practice, and he was listening to the radio.
00:40:32Lamar is being reported that you're about to be traded to Dallas.
00:40:37He was like, how does the radio know?
00:40:39I've given you guys so much, and I'm finding out this way that I'm being just traded somewhere else?
00:40:47It sort of started spiraling a lot from there.
00:40:50I would think that I wouldn't be treated like a number.
00:40:53I thought I was going to be here the rest of my whole life.
00:40:56And I don't know, I think maybe I rubbed people the wrong way.
00:41:00Maybe we're doing the show.
00:41:02I found my wife in L.A., my family.
00:41:05L.A. is a part of it.
00:41:07It's still hard to see one of my friends and one of our great players go somewhere, seemingly for nothing.
00:41:13Now, whether they have something else going on, you know, that's on them to decide.
00:41:17But it's tough, man.
00:41:19It's tough.
00:41:19First time basketball was filled with a job, like, you know what I mean?
00:41:23The drug use that transpired from the Dallas trade was monstrous.
00:41:31When you learned that the Lakers had traded you, what was your immediate thought then?
00:41:37I was surprised.
00:41:40I was surprised just because I didn't hear anything.
00:41:44But, I mean, I couldn't have landed in a more, you know, just in a great situation.
00:41:51I've just never seen so many drugs in such a dark spot, just such a dark aura around us.
00:41:59They weren't testing for certain painkillers, and he knew which ones they weren't, and he was freebasing painkillers.
00:42:08Right before Christmas, because I remember I had, like, a gingerbread house, I tried to make it so cute in
00:42:13this hotel.
00:42:14He was locked in the hotel bathroom for maybe four days just doing drugs.
00:42:19He was, has no concept of time, miserable.
00:42:22He would, I think, maybe leave to go and do a practice or whatever.
00:42:26He was horrible because he was so fucked up and high.
00:42:31This year was a very tough year.
00:42:33We are...
00:42:34So the cameras did not affect the career?
00:42:36No.
00:42:36No.
00:42:36He got, I will say, kicked off of the Mavs.
00:42:41We were only there for a few months.
00:42:45I'll come back, I'm signed with the Clippers, but now I weigh, like, 300 pounds.
00:42:49That probably was the most embarrassing time of my athletic career because I was using drugs.
00:42:54Drugs so heavily to wear.
00:42:55I had to check myself into rehab.
00:42:57There are reports that Lamar Odom is in a Los Angeles hotel where friends are trying to get him help
00:43:03for an unspecified drug problem.
00:43:04Whenever the Clippers season ended, he spiraled again and did crazy drugs.
00:43:10How do you go from sixth man of the year to average of six points a game?
00:43:14I said, because he don't want to be there.
00:43:16Yep.
00:43:16He's miserable.
00:43:16We overdosed a few times.
00:43:18I had to pump his stomach.
00:43:19I'll privately get him through it at home, detox centers.
00:43:23We did everything we could.
00:43:25Lamar, are the rumors true that you're addicted to crackle cane, Lamar?
00:43:29That's my camera, bro.
00:43:30No, no.
00:43:30What about Lamar?
00:43:32Do you know that he's been on drugs for a while or is this news for you?
00:43:35Have a good day, guys.
00:43:35Last year on my birthday, I lied to everyone because I had to lie and say I was with my
00:43:42husband
00:43:42when in fact my husband was missing with another girl.
00:43:51I was advised to do this intervention and the interventionist said, you're going to
00:43:57go in there and you're going to tell him you need to go to rehab and if you don't stay
00:44:02for a three-month program, you're going to say you're getting a divorce.
00:44:07Everyone around me was like, he'll never say he wants the divorce.
00:44:11We do the intervention.
00:44:14I give my speech and he's like, okay, all I want is my passport and yeah, let's get the
00:44:22fucking divorce.
00:44:23I was like looking around like, wait, wait, I, I don't want the divorce.
00:44:31You guys told me I have to say this.
00:44:36Lamar left immediately, was like, we're getting the fucking divorce and I'm never coming back
00:44:43here again.
00:44:50I signed the divorce papers and so right when I signed the divorce papers, I'm like,
00:44:59I'm going to get it in.
00:45:01The bunny rancher used to always see on TV, but I don't have any coke to take.
00:45:07Fuck.
00:45:08It's crazy when you think about one decision so big or so minor, um, could be so pivotal
00:45:16to you and to the people that you really love.
00:45:28So you can see how long it took for us to drive out here and how far this actually is.
00:45:35I haven't been out here in years, uh, and I don't even know what we're going to find,
00:45:41but you can see why we probably questioned initially whether or not this was really Lamar Odom
00:45:49that was contacting these girls to, um, come out here, given how far removed it is.
00:45:56We just crossed a cattle guard, if that tells you anything.
00:46:01I'm from Fort Worth, Texas, originally.
00:46:03Worked in radio there for a number of years, and that's actually how I came to work at the
00:46:10brothel.
00:46:11Uh, Dennis Hoff was a regular guest on my radio show.
00:46:15Let's welcome back to the show for the 138,000th time.
00:46:20Ladies and gentlemen, Dennis Hoff.
00:46:22Dennis, what's going on, man?
00:46:23Good afternoon, big dick.
00:46:24I am so excited.
00:46:26He was the Sam Walton of brothels.
00:46:28He was trying to corner the market on legal prostitution.
00:46:32I'm buying every brothel I can and want to turn it into a public company, and it's going
00:46:37to be a great, successful public company.
00:46:39Everybody knows the Bunny Ranch.
00:46:40That was the one where the HBO Cat House series was filmed.
00:46:44But he had bought another, I think, three up north.
00:46:49But then down here in southern Nevada, a couple had come up for sale as well, and he bought the
00:46:54Love Ranch.
00:46:55Dennis Hoff, what's up, my man?
00:46:56Hi, how are you?
00:46:56Having a good time, huh?
00:46:57Well, Max, it's everywhere, man.
00:46:59It's in the air.
00:47:01It would tell you a lot of what you needed to know about Dennis to know that he was a
00:47:06former timeshare condo salesman.
00:47:09He brought a lot of that.
00:47:12Sometimes the travel is as good as the destination.
00:47:15The saying is, the sex is like a joke.
00:47:17Some get it, some don't.
00:47:18The ones that don't come here.
00:47:19As the years progressed, and his brand got bigger, he needed somebody to manage his media.
00:47:26And that is really what brought me out here to work with Dennis full time.
00:47:34Okay, here we are.
00:47:35It's the old sign.
00:47:37And, uh, guess what?
00:47:41The whole thing's been torn down.
00:47:48Wow.
00:47:57There's a lot of misnomers about how legal prostitution works in Nevada.
00:48:04The biggest one is that people think prostitution is legal everywhere in Nevada.
00:48:11It's not.
00:48:12There are some 43 legal brothels in Nevada.
00:48:16However, none of them in Reno or Las Vegas, where pandering is definitely illegal.
00:48:21It is only legal in counties that have below 300,000 or 400,000 people.
00:48:29That's why, to get to a legal brothel, you have to drive an hour outside of Las Vegas.
00:48:35But at least here, you don't have to go through all of the problems you go through with marriage.
00:48:39What you're going to find is various levels of quality.
00:48:44There are some nicer places.
00:48:46This is the kitchen.
00:48:48This is the bar.
00:48:49And this is the energy room.
00:48:51There are also some brothels that really aren't anything more than a single-wide trailer
00:48:57out in the middle of nowhere that you wouldn't even want to set foot in.
00:49:02The Love Ranch was a series of fabricated homes that were linked together.
00:49:10So this was not the lap of luxury.
00:49:15This was the walkway that we just came up.
00:49:19This would have been, like, the patio.
00:49:21And then the front door was right here.
00:49:23Hello.
00:49:24Hey, it's Lola Marks.
00:49:25Hello.
00:49:26And Amber.
00:49:27Smokin' Amber.
00:49:28How are you guys today?
00:49:29We're doing good.
00:49:30This whole area was a bar.
00:49:33There was another door that you would come in right here.
00:49:35And here's the bar.
00:49:36And here's the bar.
00:49:39And then everything out here would have been all the modular units connected to each other.
00:49:46I was having breakfast with Larry Flint and Jimmy Flint one morning.
00:49:50Dennis himself, his worth was, are you a celebrity?
00:49:55Are you acknowledging me?
00:49:58And how famous are you?
00:50:00But it was pretty rare that a celebrity, certainly anybody above the D-list, would be actively trying to come
00:50:12out to one of the brothels.
00:50:14This was kind of a myth.
00:50:15I mean, this was something Dennis perpetuated.
00:50:18I've invited President Obama to come to the Bunny Ranch in a friendly environment.
00:50:22But I don't know that this has been talked about a lot, or maybe even ever, that Lamar Odom actually
00:50:29began contacting several of the girls from the Love Ranch on Instagram.
00:50:34And, you know, it was one of those things where, yeah, I heard it, but you don't know if these
00:50:38things are really real.
00:50:39Being a professional athlete, there's a lot of easier ways to do this than to drive an hour outside of
00:50:49the city into the desert, walk into a brothel such as it was, and want to live there for a
00:50:56few days, essentially.
00:50:58As the days progressed, I remember that him or one of his handlers or someone actually contacted the brothel and
00:51:08wanted a car to pick him up.
00:51:10So it definitely became real when he gave his, the address of where he was at, car went and picked
00:51:17him up, and the driver called the Love Ranch and said, yep, it's him, and we're in the car, and
00:51:23we're on the way back out there.
00:51:27When you think about pivotal memories in your past, it is weird to get definitive confirmation that one of those
00:51:34locations has been completely erased from existence.
00:51:41911, where is your emergency?
00:51:43We need a ambulance.
00:51:46I was early in the weeds, like a Monday or Tuesday or something like that.
00:51:49Very slow day.
00:51:51The Love Ranch had, like, a separate house behind the brothel.
00:51:56If you were spending enough money, we'd put you in that house.
00:51:59And I knew Lamar was there.
00:52:02He'd been there for, I think, the last two days at that point.
00:52:05So I'm sitting at my desk, I'm working, and one of the girls that was with him comes running into
00:52:12my office screaming.
00:52:15Oh my God, Richard, come quick, something's happened to Lamar, something's happened, something's happened.
00:52:22I run into the room, it gets completely blacked out, all the shades were pulled, everything.
00:52:27The first thing I remember is the sound, because he was snoring so heavily, like, something was wrong.
00:52:38Well, I said we needed to call 911.
00:52:41Um, I'm at the Love Ranch at 300 Apple and Solana.
00:52:45I just called them.
00:52:45They said they were going to send somebody out, but I just wanted to let them know that they need
00:52:48to the right.
00:52:49Please, please.
00:52:50Okay, is he conscious?
00:52:51No.
00:52:54And I'm explaining to the operator what is going on.
00:52:58So which side do you have him turned on?
00:52:59On his right side.
00:53:02Can you, uh, see if you can get him on his left side?
00:53:04On each one, if you grab a leg, I need to move him down on his side.
00:53:08You know, he's a giant.
00:53:09This guy's, like, seven feet tall and 350 pounds.
00:53:13I, huge.
00:53:14When I got him on his side, he just expelled.
00:53:19Fluid starts coming out of his mouth.
00:53:28He had told one of the girls that he had had some cocaine before he arrived at the brothel.
00:53:36Now, that would have been two days prior.
00:53:38The girl that had been with him said he also took these, and she holds up this packet.
00:53:44Something called Reload Sexual Performance Enhancer for Men.
00:53:50And I asked her, how many of these did he take?
00:53:54And she said, probably 12.
00:53:57And I looked at the package, and the package said, don't take more than one every 24 hours.
00:54:08The EMTs came in the room, and there was three of them.
00:54:12Because of his size, they weren't going to be able to get him on the stretcher to wheel him out.
00:54:16So we had to pull up the fitted sheet that he was on on the bed, and each of those
00:54:23three guys took a corner, and I took the fourth corner, and we held the sheet like this.
00:54:29And we walked him out of the suite, and when the sun hit his face, and I had one of
00:54:38the corners that was up by his head, I looked down at his face, and I just remember thinking, this
00:54:47guy may be dead.
00:54:52I remember I called my girlfriend, and I said, everything's okay, with me anyway, but I'm at a hospital with
00:55:01Lamar Odom.
00:55:03He's in the ER, and he is in a bad way.
00:55:08You're probably going to start hearing about this on the news.
00:55:12Former Lakers player Lamar Odom is fighting for his life at Sunrise Hospital.
00:55:17He was rushed there after days of partying at the Love Ranch brothel.
00:55:23I was doing a photo shoot for People magazine, and the night before, I had a dream about Lamar, that
00:55:29he was dead.
00:55:31And I was at his funeral, and I was sobbing.
00:55:34In my interview, Kim called me three times.
00:55:38I get in the car, I call her, and she's like, Lamar overdosed, he's in Vegas.
00:55:43And I just remember screaming.
00:55:47It was like 8 o'clock, just like about to head to bed, and my mom came in.
00:55:54She was like, I just got a text, like, saying, like, they just read TMZ, and your dad's, like, in
00:56:02a coma.
00:56:03I just remember the room being, like, heavy.
00:56:05If that makes sense.
00:56:06It felt like the walls were kind of, like, closing in.
00:56:11We didn't know details yet, and my mom was just distraught.
00:56:15She was just trying to make phone calls, and just like, um, how do we get to Vegas?
00:56:21Looks like a very dire situation right now.
00:56:23Right, well, he was found around 3.15 by two of the girls at the Love Ranch.
00:56:28And reportedly, and according to a police report, he had liquid coming out of his nose, his mouth, and he
00:56:34was unconscious.
00:56:34So we get to the hospital, his dad was there.
00:56:39I assume, thought he's now the beneficiary to Lamar.
00:56:44And Joe just said, don't put him on life support.
00:56:47Turn those machines off.
00:56:48And I remember walking in around that time, and I kid you not, it was a scene out of a
00:56:54movie.
00:56:55And I'm like, sorry, Joe, I'm still his wife.
00:56:58What do you need?
00:56:59And Joe wanted a pair of Nikes and $100 at a hotel room for the night.
00:57:03And Joe left and never came back.
00:57:06This is my husband.
00:57:08Through sickness and health, I have to be there for him.
00:57:11I have to show up for him.
00:57:12And I was going to do everything I could to make sure that he had the best fighting chance.
00:57:17And I just trusted myself more than I trusted anyone in his circle.
00:57:22His former wife, Khloe Kardashian, at his side.
00:57:26Because of a backlog in the courts, their divorce is not final.
00:57:29And she alone is making medical decisions on his behalf.
00:57:34He had a lot of brain damage on the left side of his body, and his lungs collapsed.
00:57:39They were like, okay, this surgery, there's like a 10% chance it will work, or he might die on
00:57:44the table.
00:57:45And Kobe Bryant was there, and he helped me make the decision of doing the surgery.
00:57:51We got his lungs to work, and he didn't die.
00:57:54But he fell into a coma.
00:57:57For the very first time since their father was brought here to Sunrise Hospital, Lamar Odom's children are now in
00:58:04Las Vegas to be with their father.
00:58:06The news was still saying, like, he's been in a coma for, like, two days.
00:58:09And I was like, I can at least, like, say my goodbyes.
00:58:15Prayers for Lamar, I believe, was trending.
00:58:17Like, the world was, like, literally praying for him.
00:58:21Because it's bigger than basketball.
00:58:23It's bigger than being a reality TV husband.
00:58:25Like, people, I think people genuinely saw this is a man broken and full of pain.
00:58:33When we went into the hospital room, like, it was hard seeing him all tubed up and everything.
00:58:40He was so swollen.
00:58:41I remember how swollen he was.
00:58:43It did look like he was just sleeping.
00:58:47And I just grabbed his hand, and I said everything.
00:58:51I was like, you can't leave.
00:58:52Like, we still have, like, memories to make.
00:58:58He was in a coma for, I want to say, like, three days.
00:59:01Four days.
00:59:03Twelve strokes, I think it was, six heart attacks, which is unheard of.
00:59:08Sources close to Odom tell our sister network that Lamar Odom is hooked up to a ventilator
00:59:12in a coma and likely suffered brain damage.
00:59:16The doctor said, um, he may not be able to respond to you or, like, talk back to you,
00:59:21but he could hear you while he's in a coma.
00:59:24I think it was 2003, 2002,
00:59:29where Jay-Z, you know, Fat Joe,
00:59:31when they had that big basketball tournament in New York City,
00:59:34he played for Jay-Z's team.
00:59:36And, um, in a clip, in a highlight.
00:59:38He's got to skip to him.
00:59:39He's got to skip to him.
00:59:40What is he going to do?
00:59:41Like, he makes a good move, sham guides it between some dude's legs.
00:59:45The crowd goes crazy.
00:59:51And then he does a little dance, a little shimmy.
00:59:57Yeah, I always just played that clip for him, you know, so he, so he could hear it.
01:00:03Still seeing some activity out in front of the hospital at this point.
01:00:07TMZ is reporting that Lamar Odom is in a coma.
01:00:09One woman told me Khloe Kardashian was here last night to be by Odom's side.
01:00:14Some people got to see him, some people didn't.
01:00:16We had no control over that.
01:00:18Khloe had control over that.
01:00:19I had filters on who I would let into the hospital.
01:00:24That's very true.
01:00:25At the very beginning, I would let people come in.
01:00:28And then I found out, like, three of them were drug dealers
01:00:32that were wanting to collect money, rummaging through his personal bags.
01:00:37And when that happened is when I said,
01:00:40we're on lockdown, whoever wants to come,
01:00:43I need to authorize them being here.
01:00:45Literally, we were coming out of the elevator.
01:00:47The whole family was with me.
01:00:49And Christiana's bodyguard was like,
01:00:51before you come onto this floor, you guys got to sign this.
01:00:54And I was looking at him, and he was like, not you.
01:00:57And I was like, I thought so.
01:00:59So they didn't give me the NDA, but they gave it to his whole family.
01:01:01It got so bad that somebody must have told the cops,
01:01:05because the Vegas PD came upstairs with, like, five cops, two German shepherds.
01:01:11It was very intimidating.
01:01:13But I think it was, like, to keep the peace,
01:01:15but yet it made it kind of worse, kind of triggering.
01:01:18And Destiny also had to be like, my father is down the hall.
01:01:22Like, we are praying for him to wake up.
01:01:24Like, we don't need this.
01:01:25Like, stop.
01:01:31Death is something we're all going to go through.
01:01:33And in my family, Lamar knows this.
01:01:36My mother said it.
01:01:38I said it.
01:01:39The kids say it.
01:01:41Whatever don't kill you makes you stronger.
01:01:43And we're some strong people.
01:01:49Before all the media trucks had really gotten there,
01:01:52everything really started to sink in,
01:01:55because the adrenaline dump happened,
01:01:57and my part of this, at least in real time dealing with it, is done.
01:02:02All of a sudden, there appears this guy,
01:02:06and he comes up to me,
01:02:08and he identifies himself as somebody from Lamar's team.
01:02:12He says, Lamar has a backpack that he brought with him to the brothel.
01:02:19I said, I'm not authorized to turn anything over
01:02:22until I hear from my boss.
01:02:25He says, listen, right now, no one knows anything about this,
01:02:32and I'm sure your boss would like to keep it that way.
01:02:36And boy, I thought to myself,
01:02:40well, you, sir, do not know Dennis Hoff.
01:02:43The owner of the brothel where Lamar Odom was found unresponsive
01:02:46is speaking out tonight.
01:02:47He was in a good mood, just wanted to have a good time.
01:02:49He just wanted a little peace and quiet.
01:02:51He said he was doing cocaine before he got there on Saturday.
01:02:54It's a hard day in the brothel business.
01:02:55The very first words out of his mouth are,
01:02:57OK, I've called TMZ, I've told the National Enquirer
01:03:01that they can have the exclusive interview,
01:03:04but TMZ's going to break the source.
01:03:05Well, everything was fine until Tuesday morning.
01:03:08He was just there to have a good time.
01:03:09Hold on, Hoff. Hold on.
01:03:10I didn't know you had extended stay.
01:03:12He realizes he's got a couple of chips here.
01:03:14Everybody wants the receipt that Lamar signed.
01:03:17He paid a tab of $75,000 up front.
01:03:21And they also want the footage.
01:03:23And so a bidding war ensues.
01:03:25We're getting word that there is video of him
01:03:27during his stay at the ranch.
01:03:29The ranch's owner, Dennis Hoff, confirmed the video exists,
01:03:32but says the current bid was at $50,000.
01:03:35The deal Dennis finally strikes is he gives it to the Today Show.
01:03:40And the deal he works out is Matt Lauer sitting there.
01:03:44And he says, joining us now is the owner of the Love Ranch
01:03:50and the author of The Art of the Pimp
01:03:54available in bookstores everywhere, Dennis Hoff.
01:03:59If I didn't know it before, I knew after that
01:04:02that in terms of what we were going to do
01:04:05or would be willing to do for publicity,
01:04:08there wasn't a limit.
01:04:14Here they come.
01:04:15The news broke this afternoon that Lamar Odom woke up
01:04:18after nearly three days of being unconscious.
01:04:20A close friend of Odom's tells us he's now off of breathing tubes
01:04:23and even opened his eyes.
01:04:26Chloe, are you worried about Lamar?
01:04:28Do you think Lamar's ready to die if he doesn't get straight?
01:04:32What do you think, Chloe?
01:04:34Are you going to try to help Lamar?
01:04:36Each and every day that Odom's health slightly improves,
01:04:40security around the hospital heightens.
01:04:42So many people so desperate to catch a glimpse
01:04:44of the former NBA star or possibly a Kardashian
01:04:48were told some have dressed up as security guards
01:04:51and nurses to try and get in.
01:04:56Woke up three days later ripping tubes and shit out of my neck.
01:05:00I still got the scar from it.
01:05:03It's ripping the shit out of my neck and my face.
01:05:07I'm freaking out and I'm calling the nurse
01:05:09and he pulls this tube out and he looks around
01:05:11and he says, hey, baby, and falls back asleep.
01:05:15I'm like, what the fuck just happened?
01:05:18You know, they say, like, when you wake up from a coma,
01:05:20you don't know what the fuck is going on and shit like that.
01:05:22You're just pulling this shit all out your neck and everything.
01:05:26And then I got the reminder right here.
01:05:29These are the TMZ photos of the helicopter
01:05:31that transported Lamar Odom
01:05:33to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,
01:05:36where he will reportedly undergo six hours of dialysis a day.
01:05:40We support Lamar, you know, Queensbridge,
01:05:43Ravenswood, all his friends back home.
01:05:45I'm going to let Lamar do his thing.
01:05:46Go set Lamar up.
01:05:48How's Lamar holding up?
01:05:49Hi, Lamar.
01:05:50This is Monica Monroe from Love Ranch.
01:05:52Dennis and the team just want to wish you well in your recovery.
01:05:55Any words for Lamar?
01:05:57Love you, dude.
01:05:57Wish Lamar a happy birthday for us.
01:06:00It's hard to focus on a lot of other things right now.
01:06:03Lamar is a brother to me.
01:06:04My prayers are with him.
01:06:05It's tough thinking about him just laying there.
01:06:10When I woke up, I couldn't hold my bow.
01:06:13So you can imagine the humility of being in Cedars-Sinai Hospital.
01:06:19Yeah, I won two championships.
01:06:20I'm in my own room.
01:06:21I can't walk.
01:06:22I can't talk.
01:06:22And they come to check my diaper.
01:06:27My wife was around me.
01:06:31She helped wipe some of the shit up.
01:06:37I never left the hospital.
01:06:39I was there for about four months with him every single day.
01:06:42We were, like, determined to get him walking and moving again.
01:06:47Do shoulder press.
01:06:49Come on, you.
01:06:50Okay.
01:06:53Some of the circuits weren't connecting to different outlets of his brain.
01:06:57Yes, you're close.
01:06:58There you go.
01:07:01But Lamar's determination that's just rooted in his body is what got him to being where he is.
01:07:10And he did learn how to walk again at Cedars, and that was really special.
01:07:18Now you're smiling.
01:07:19Is he smiling?
01:07:20Yeah.
01:07:21Yes.
01:07:24You're doing so well.
01:07:26I know this is the first time that you've sat down live, and you are fully willing to talk about
01:07:32the journey that you've been through with Lamar.
01:07:35He's doing great, but, you know, it's a long journey, and it's every day is different.
01:07:40We take every day as it comes.
01:07:41I've learned not to look into the future too much.
01:07:44I try to live every day as it comes, and I'm just, 2016 is a good year.
01:07:49Do you know who this is?
01:07:54This is your son.
01:07:57Your son's name is Lamar Jr., and we call him LJ.
01:08:03It probably was harder for her because I couldn't say thank you or I appreciate you or I couldn't show
01:08:10any.
01:08:11I wouldn't even cry.
01:08:12You know, I wouldn't even.
01:08:13One, two, three.
01:08:17Do it.
01:08:18One, two, three.
01:08:25Yay!
01:08:30It's just like I was a heartbeat.
01:08:34Good job.
01:08:36You did great.
01:08:38There was a lot of challenges, but he's a fighter, and as long as he's willing to fight it and
01:08:44constantly better himself, then that's all I could ask for.
01:08:53You're about to go swim?
01:08:54Hell no.
01:08:56You know I don't swim.
01:08:58Before I die, I promised I'm going to learn how to swim and go back to school.
01:09:03Because I got a chance right now to, you know, coach in college really soon and probably after that, probably
01:09:15in the NBA if I want to.
01:09:16But I really wanted to use coach in college to go back to school.
01:09:22I told you my grandmother went back to school when she was 50 years old and graduated.
01:09:29When we got discharged, I was not thinking, but I was like, oh, yeah, where, where is Lamar going?
01:09:38So at this point, Lamar can barely talk.
01:09:40He can speak a little bit, but it's more like, mm-hmm.
01:09:43And everything's delayed.
01:09:45He wasn't able to take a shower on his own.
01:09:47Like, we had to test the water because he couldn't decipher hot and cold.
01:09:51So I rented a home for him in the community.
01:09:54I had a caretaker.
01:09:56I had a chef.
01:09:57And we were going to rehabilitate him.
01:10:01Once you know the smell of crack, it's the most identifiable, disgusting smell.
01:10:07And there's nothing that you can confuse it with.
01:10:11And I remember stopping by the house, and I smelled crack.
01:10:17Okay, I'm going to fucking be as stealth as possible, and I'm going to see what the fuck this guy's
01:10:23doing.
01:10:23I remember slowly tiptoeing up the stairs.
01:10:26He was in his bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed, smoking crap.
01:10:33And I just punched him in his face.
01:10:36I just put my life on hold to fucking take care of you.
01:10:41How did you get this?
01:10:42You don't have a fucking phone.
01:10:44You can't talk.
01:10:46Well, lo and behold, he had a phone.
01:10:48He was better than I knew.
01:10:52He was playing me so I can continue this lifestyle for him.
01:10:57I said, by Monday, you need out of this house.
01:11:01I'm done.
01:11:02I'm not paying for a thing.
01:11:05And I never want to speak to you again.
01:11:08Khloe Kardashian has filed for divorce from Lamar Odom for the second time again.
01:11:13She previously filed for divorce in 2013, but then withdrew that petition after the former NBA star was found unconscious
01:11:20in a Nevada brothel.
01:11:22I'm trying to think about, like, who the fuck?
01:11:26Because if you know Lamar Odom just went through that, like, how would you even, why would you even give
01:11:30him coke?
01:11:33That's fucked up.
01:11:36He was on this kind of, like, redemption tour a little bit.
01:11:41Moving around here to there in L.A., going to events.
01:11:45He went to Kobe's last game.
01:11:56But he never went to rehab.
01:11:59He just kind of, like, acted like the coma thing never really happened.
01:12:06There was, like, this Kanye West event in Madison Square Garden that he was at.
01:12:10And I was like, you didn't even come to see me.
01:12:13Like, what are you doing?
01:12:16I think when you're just looking at somebody as, like, an addict and, oh, it's your fault because you started
01:12:20using drugs and, oh, just grow up and just stop it.
01:12:24And it's like, no, when you really learn about it, like, you see, like, how you can get really snagged
01:12:33into it.
01:12:35I feel like Lamar's struggle his entire life is that he's blamed himself for so many tragic events in his
01:12:41life.
01:12:41And sometimes I think these events he uses to rationalize why he abuses the way he does.
01:12:50Because then when you find out I do something bad, I have a backpack of reasons why.
01:12:55Like, Lamar's had an extraordinary life.
01:12:58Yes, bad and good.
01:13:00But fuck, it's extraordinary.
01:13:02And he needs to lean into that.
01:13:07I can depend on my family.
01:13:09But most people leave you, leave you to fucking rot in the wind.
01:13:15Even the people that say that they love you, bro.
01:13:19People show their true colors, bro.
01:13:23I won't, I won't really let my, I don't really trust too much.
01:13:31All right.
01:13:33Okay.
01:13:35Over the years, our fans have always sent me mail here.
01:13:40And I always made it a point to, when Lamar came in town, signing, keep it all together and make
01:13:46it signing.
01:13:47Dear Mr. Odom, I'm a huge basketball fan.
01:13:52I love your style of playing and was hoping you would sign one of your rookie cards for me.
01:13:59Thank you so much, Brian Ingram.
01:14:02And look, here's his two rookie cards.
01:14:05Oh, he looks so cute.
01:14:06He's like Michael Jordan a little bit right here.
01:14:08Look at this.
01:14:11Look at that.
01:14:12Look at the vet.
01:14:13Oh, okay, okay.
01:14:14Look at the vet set him up.
01:14:16Ha-ha!
01:14:16With three fouls.
01:14:18As much as he's grown over the past couple of years, I feel like sometimes you always got to put
01:14:23him back on track.
01:14:25Hey, the quote of number four, down 18.
01:14:28It seems like you're the parent and he's the son.
01:14:32Or like he's like the little kid.
01:14:34We all got a lot of grown up to do, but I feel like he got a lot of grown
01:14:38up to do also.
01:14:40Come on, man.
01:14:42When I was on Big Brother, a reality show, I was there for like 30 days.
01:14:47Out of those 30 days, I dreamt Kobe four times.
01:14:52The last dream that I remember clearly, we were having a shooting contest.
01:14:58Billy Crystal was emceeing it.
01:15:00That's how you know it's a dream, right?
01:15:02So before he goes up first, he looks back at me and he says,
01:15:08Hello, the afterlife is not what people make it up to be.
01:15:12When he said that, I'm like, right now it's go mode.
01:15:19You ain't fucking giving me another workout on the low, man.
01:15:25I'll call you back.
01:15:27I don't look weird walking up this mountain with these pants on.
01:15:30Yeah, yeah, great.
01:15:33I think shit's crazy because at the end of the day, we're all really just trying to find out.
01:15:38For me, it's the search and the quest for life.
01:15:40Like, why am I here?
01:15:41Why did God spare me?
01:15:42Like, I had 12 strokes and six heart attacks, dude.
01:15:45Like, that's not no average shit.
01:15:49Shit.
01:15:50I mean, not to get kinky, but I don't want to take my pants off down there.
01:15:56I got the pants on and y'all lagging behind.
01:15:59My man, oh, no, y'all not.
01:16:01I was talking shit.
01:16:02I mean, shit.
01:16:06You got Clippers, Bakers, Chloe, death, life, kids, now.
01:16:16I think they know I'm a sex fan and a drug addict.
01:16:23Did basketball solve my problems or create my problems?
01:16:27I would say both.
01:16:28I solved my problems because it gave me a refuge and always a safe place.
01:16:34But all this fame and fortune came to me, and obviously I wasn't ready for it.
01:16:39And then it was so crazy.
01:16:40I think about that all the time.
01:16:41Would that be my safe place?
01:16:44Like, if nobody knew who I was for a day, or would that drive me crazy?
01:16:50Like, who knows?
01:16:52I mean, a lot of people come up to me and notice me and greet me and whatever.
01:16:59I've been out the NBA for, what, 10 years?
01:17:03I know I'm here for something.
01:17:06And once I find that out, I'm gonna look out.
01:17:14Real sex?
01:17:15It's a wrap.
01:17:18I'm a Netflix baby now.
01:17:20Does this make me an A-lister?
01:17:23I'm with it.
01:17:24I'm ready to go to Vegas, bro.
01:17:26Fuck it, bro.
01:17:29I'm going to marry somebody in Vegas.
01:17:31Fuck it.
01:17:32I'll give it.
01:17:33I'm joking.
01:17:34I know who you are.
01:17:35I'm joking.
01:18:13I'm joking.
01:18:22I'm joking.
01:18:24I'll give it.
01:18:24I'll give it.
01:18:28I'll give it to you and give it.
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