14 DAY TRIAL // Reports would have it that Lamar Odom is struggling with drug addiction, which, in turn, has taken a serious toll on his marriage to Khloe Kardashian but, as he says in a no-holds-barred interview with TMZ paparazzi, they’re all lies.
Check out the video below for what is the NBA star’s first chat on the many rumors that have been making the rounds, including his imminent divorce, drug addiction, his basketball career, and the real reason why he wasn’t at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s engagement party.
He was the only member of the family who wasn’t there, so of course that his absence raised some flags.
“You see my wedding ring on? Of course, I was invited,” Lamar told the paparazzo when he asked him if he’d been blacklisted from the happy event that took place on Kim’s 33rd birthday.
“Yes we talk like a normal family,” Lamar said, adding that the real reason he wasn’t at the party was “because I had something to do. Maybe I had something personal to do.”
Lamar was mum all this time on the topic of his alleged drug addiction and divorce, but he more than made up for it in this interview, professing he was very healthy (he even offered to furnish the paparazzo with proof), very happy, and still very able to play a basketball game.
Towards the end of the interview, he offered a word of advice to the pap, telling him that manners would have aided him in scoring it sooner. For instance, Lamar points out, the paparazzo should have introduced himself right after he approached him.
“I'm a gentleman. I was raised very sophisticated. I can probably get along with anyone and I can have a conversation with anyone,” he said.
At the end of it, he shook hands with the paparazzo and departed in a very good mood.