Odom opens up about brush with death | Inquirer Sports

Odom opens up about brush with death

/ 05:15 AM July 29, 2017

Lamar Odom. AFP/GETTY IMAGES FILE PHOTO

LOS ANGELES—Former NBA star Lamar Odom opened up on the Players’ Tribune on Thursday about the roller-coaster of cocaine addiction that left him comatose and close to death after a Nevada brothel binge in 2015.

Although he’s sober now, Odom wrote on the website that it’s “an everyday struggle.”

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He recalled his shock upon waking in the hospital, having collapsed at the Love Ranch brothel outside Las Vegas.

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“At some point, the main doctor came in and told me what had happened,” Odom wrote. “He said, ‘Mr. Odom, you’ve been in a coma for the last four days. Do you understand?’ I couldn’t talk. So I just nodded. He said, ‘It’s a miracle that you’re here. We didn’t think you were going to make it.’”

Odom was a two-time NBA champion who gained wider fame as the star of a reality television series with wife Khloe Kardashian. —AFP

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