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Odom Lamar opens up about his surprise reunion with ex-wife Khloé Kardashian forward The Kardashians season 6.
Lamar, 45, and Khloé, 40, document 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 reveals how his cameo came to be.
According to Lamar, the reunion was arranged by his friend and best friend Khloé, Malika Haqqwho himself 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 an interview Monday, January 20, on an Australian radio show, The Kyle and Jackie O Show. “I think it’s Super Bowl weekend. He came to me, he 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.”
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 did not realize that his meeting with Khloé would be filmed.
“And I went there, and there were cameras there and I was like, ‘Oh, okay,'” Lamar explained. “It’s cool, I get 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.
Before Kim Kardashian’s 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries, there was Khloé Kardashian’s nine-day engagement to Lamar Odom. In November 2009, season 4 of Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered with a very special episode called “The Wedding,” which squeezed almost all of Khloé and Lamar’s courtship into a tight 90 minutes. Khloé introduced Lamar to (…)
“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 to see if he had feelings for his ex, saying, “You’re still in love with her. Do you want to be with her or not? You want her back? You can admit that.”
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 would be a blessing just to be a friend, just to be around her.”
It was pretty much love at first sight when Khloé Kardashian met former NBA player Lamar Odom. The pair tied the knot in September 2009 after just one month of dating, They were in wedded bliss for the next four years – a journey documented on their hit E! reality series, Khloé & Lamar. Unfortunately, (…)
Khloé married Lamar in September 2009 after a month of dating, soon chronicled their romance on E!’s Khloé and Lamar docuseries. The reality TV star filed for divorce four years later but shelved her court bid after Lamar was left comatose after overdose in a legal brothel in Nevada. Khloé served as Lamar’s caregiver while he recovered. She re-filed for divorce in May 2016, which was finalized seven months later.
Khloé bought into her reunion with Lamar while talking to her mother, Kris Jennerand a sister Kim Kardashian in the Kardashians season 6 trailer. “I honestly think it’s all about timing,” she says in a confessional before the trailer cuts to footage of Khloé talking to a shocked Kim, 44, and Kris, 69.
“This is crazy,” 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 voiceover as footage of Lamar arriving at her house was shown.
The Kardashians season 6 premieres Thursday, February 6, on Hulu.
