Khloe Kardashian punched Lamar Odom after finding him taking crack
Khloé Kardashian punched Lamar Odom "in the face" when she caught him doing drugs not long after his near-fatal overdose.
Khloé Kardashian punched Lamar Odom "in the face" when she caught him doing drugs after his near-fatal overdose.
The 41-year-old reality star put her divorce from the basketball player on hold after he collapsed in Las Vegas in 2015 so she could help care for him and make medical decisions while he was unconscious, so she was furious when, after renting him a home to recover in afterwards, she found him "smoking crack" when she went to visit.
Speaking in Netflix's upcoming Untold docuseries The Death and Life of Lamar Odom, People magazine reports she said: "So at this point, Lamar can barely talk. He can speak a little bit but it's more like, 'Mmhmm,' and everything's delayed. He wasn't able to take a shower on his own.
"Once you know the smell of crack, it's the most identifiable, disgusting smell, and there's nothing that you can confuse it with. And I remember stopping by the house and I smelled crack."
The Good American founder wanted to be "as stealth as possible" as she moved around the house to catch Lamar in the act.
She said: "I remember slowly tiptoeing up the stairs, he was in his bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed, smoking crack, and I just punched him in his face."
Khloe told her former spouse she had put her "life on hold" to look after him and noted that, at the time, she believed he didn't even own a phone anymore.
She said: "Well lo and behold, he had a phone.
"He was playing me so I could continue this lifestyle for him.
"I said, 'By Monday you need to be out of this house, I'm done, I'm not paying for a thing and I never want to speak to you again.' "
The 46-year-old sportsman - who married Khloe in 2009 just weeks after they started dating - didn't say much about the incident with the Kardashians star, but expressed his disappointment in the person who gave him the drugs, despite knowing he had recently overdosed.
He said: "That's f***** up."
Khloe recently cited her split from Lamar as the "catalyst" for changing her relationship with diet and exercise.
Speaking on her Khloe in Wonder Land podcast, she said: “My divorce was really the catalyst to why I became obsessed, in a healthy way, with working out.
“I realised during my marriage that I ate so much, and I would eat my feelings and I didn't like how that made me feel.
“I was like, I'm over this, I'm over feeling this way. I'm over never feeling like I could be in a bathing suit.
“I compared myself to everyone. People compared me to my sisters… something just sort of awakens inside of you that you're like I don't want to live like this anymore.”
