Khloé Kardashian is done with Lamar Odom — and she said so, in the plainest language possible, on Thursday's episode of The Kardashians. “He is dead to me,” the 42-year-old said in a confessional, closing the book on a relationship that has played out in public for 17 years. The trigger was Odom's Netflix documentary, Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, and what he said in it about their marriage.
In the film, which arrived on Netflix in March, Odom, 47, said he married into the Kardashian family for the lifestyle — and that he was not really in love with Khloé. Kardashian watched it, and she did not like what she saw. “I did watch the Lamar documentary,” she told producers on the new episode. “I'm not too thrilled about it.”
“Because I'm watching the documentary, and I'm like, wait, I took time out of my life to sit here and do a favor for you. I'm not being paid. I'm doing this because I'm trying to be nice.” — Khloé Kardashian, on The Kardashians
The Favor She Did For Free
Kardashian appeared in the documentary at Odom's request. She was not paid for it, she said — she agreed because she wanted to be kind. What she heard in return, she said, was a version of their marriage that reduced it to a career move. “You're saying that you weren't really in love with me, you married me just so you could be more popular in pop culture, all these things, which is so weird,” she said. “Even if that is your truth, why don't you say it without me being on the other side of these interviews? I just thought that was really, really lame.”
The subject came up while Scott Disick — Kourtney Kardashian's ex, with whom she shares three children — was spending time with Khloé and her best friend Malika Haqq. Disick remembered the months after Odom's near-fatal overdose in 2015, when Khloé nursed him back to health. “There was a time where she was spoon-feeding the guy back to life and helping him go to the bathroom,” Disick, 43, said.
Kardashian has spoken before about what those months cost her. She has said she lived in a hospital for four months while Odom recovered, and that she contracted a staph infection during that time. She has also said she rented Odom a home after his discharge and hired a caregiver and a chef for him. Odom spent close to three months at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being found unresponsive at the Love Ranch, a brothel about 80 miles outside Las Vegas. Odom says he suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks.
A Marriage That Began In 30 Days
Kardashian and Odom met in 2009 and married 30 days later. Their wedding, their life together and their split all played out on the family's reality shows. Kardashian filed for divorce in 2013, paused the proceedings after Odom's overdose, refiled in May 2016, and the divorce was finalized that December.
In the documentary, Odom spoke candidly about what drew him to the family. “I'm already Lamar Odom,” he said, “and I'm just kind of like watching how she lived, and their lifestyle, and I'm like, I know this is where I want to be, like, this is how I want to live.” A childhood friend, Anthony Booker, who attended the couple's 2009 wedding, said Odom told him he hoped to “try to better his future.”
Why This One Stung
For Kardashian, the sting was not just the claim itself — it was the setting. She had shown up for the documentary as a favor, unpaid, and found herself cast as a stepping stone in someone else's story. “I don't need [him] to thank me,” she said. “Just don't talk about me. Don't discredit me.”
Odom, for his part, told USA TODAY in March that he had not been in touch with Kardashian since their televised reunion for the family's reality series, and that the meeting had felt awkward and tense. “To me, it didn't really go well,” he said at the time. “Felt like she was in attack mode, but I can't really invalidate her feelings, and I won't do that.” He added that he understood the hurt he had caused her. “All I can do is try to be the best man I can be now for myself, for my children and for my family,” he said. Odom shares two children, Destiny and Lamar Odom Jr., with former fiancée Liza Morales. Kardashian shares two children, True and Tatum, with her ex, Tristan Thompson.
On Thursday's episode, Kardashian made it clear there is nothing left to repair. “The bridge is burned, and there's no more rope left to throw over,” she said. “So he is dead to me.” New episodes of The Kardashians arrive on Hulu every Thursday.




