Lamar Odom is opening up about his surprise reunion with ex-wife Khloé Kardashian on The Kardashians season 6.
Lamar, 45, and Khloé, 40, documented their first meeting in several years for the upcoming season, as teased in a trailer shared by Hulu on Friday, January 17, and the former NBA star is revealing how his cameo came to be.
According to Lamar, the reunion was brokered by his friend and Khloé’s best friend, Malika Haqq, who herself has appeared on The Kardashians and its predecessor, Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
“I bumped into her in Las Vegas,” Lamar said of Malika, 41, during a Monday, January 20, interview on the Australian radio show, The Kyle & Jackie O Show. “I think it was Super Bowl weekend. She came to me, she said, ‘Lamar, I think it’s time for you and Khloé to [meet] … it’s been years. You haven’t seen her. If you’re up for it, I think I can make it happen.’”
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As seen in the Kardashians season 6 trailer, Lamar visited Khloé at her Hidden Hills mansion with a bouquet of red roses.
According to the former Los Angeles Lakers player, he didn’t realize that his meeting with Khloé would be filmed.
“And I went there, and there were cameras there and I was like, ‘Oh, all right,’” Lamar explained. “It’s cool, I understand it, you know.”
As for where he and Khloé stand now, Lamar said, “It would be a blessing just to be her friend,” denying that they are back together.
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“You know, so much time has passed, and people have, you know, changed,” he added. “I think for the better.”
Later in the interview, radio personality Kyle Sandilands pressed Lamar on whether he still had feelings for his ex, saying, “You’re in love with her still. You want to be with her or not? You want her back? You can admit it.”
Lamar responded, “I don’t care. I think it’s healthy. I think it’s healthy sometimes to like, you know, move on. You know, in a healthy way. Like I said, it’d be a blessing just to be a friend, just to be around her.”
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Khloé married Lamar in September 2009 after one month of dating, soon chronicling their romance on E!’s Khloé & Lamar docuseries. The reality TV star filed for divorce four years later but postponed her court motion after Lamar was left comatose after overdosing at a legal brothel in Nevada. Khloé served as Lamar’s caretaker while he recovered. She refiled for divorce in May 2016, which was finalized seven months later.
Khloé teased her reunion with Lamar while speaking to her mom, Kris Jenner, and sister Kim Kardashian in the Kardashians season 6 trailer. “I honestly think timing is everything,” she said in a confessional before the trailer cut to footage of Khloé talking to a shocked Kim, 44, and Kris, 69.
“This is insane,” Kim quipped before Kris tearfully called the NBA alum “the love of [Khloé’s] life.”
“I don’t even know this person anymore,” the Good American founder added in a voiceover as footage of Lamar arriving at her house was shown.
The Kardashians season 6 premieres Thursday, February 6, on Hulu.
