This week’s eepisode of celebrity marriage drama features former NBA player Lamar Odom and his comments about his marriage to Khloe Kardashian.
The drama started after Netflix released Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, where Lamar made remarks that many people interpreted as him admitting he married Khloé for fame.
As you can imagine, that did not exactly go over well.
Saying you married a Kardashian for fame is a little like admitting you visited Disneyland because you heard they had rides.
Four months after Lamar Odom said he married Khloe Kardashian because he wanted her famous lifestyle—and she subsequently slammed his comments—he clarified what he really meant. https://t.co/f9KHL9H5i5 pic.twitter.com/992KyIrUYD
— E! News (@enews) July 8, 2026
People are going to have questions.
Khloé was not thrilled by the comments, which is probably the understatement of the year.
After all, nobody wants to hear that their marriage may have come with a side order of career advancement.
Lamar Odom is keeping up with the conversation around his comments about Khloe Kardashian. https://t.co/peqkoOXKMT (🎥: Nothing's Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero) pic.twitter.com/8oJt8vXdZy
— E! News (@enews) July 9, 2026
Lamar, however, has since pushed back against the interpretation of his remarks.
He said in the documentary that he was attracted to the Kardashian “lifestyle” and that played a role in his decision to marry Kardashian after just 30 days together. A close friend of his, Anthony “Pumpkin” Booker, who attended their wedding, also claimed that Odom told him on the day of the wedding that he was “doing it to try to better his future” as the Kardashian family had “mad connections.”
Kardashian, who participated in the documentary, called his comments “some f—ed up s—” on her podcast. “You’re sitting on camera saying you married me for fame? Like, what?” she said on the April 15 episode of Khloé in Wonder Land. “I feel so dumb. I spent hours doing this documentary as a favor. I’m not paid one penny. I’m pissed that I’m even involved.”
Odom cleared up his comments on the June 23 episode of Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero. “That never came out of my mouth,” he said when asked about the comments that he married his ex for “clout.”
“I think that was my kids or my children or whoever they were interviewing at the time, because, you know… I didn’t really need [her],” Odom said. His two adult children, Destiny and LJ, both appeared in the documentary.
“You loved her,” the host said, and Odom replied, “Yeah, I did. But I didn’t need more clout.”
Welcome to the wonderful world of celebrity interviews, where one sentence can become a headline, a debate, and six podcast episodes before lunchtime.
He said that he wanted to “start the show” by clearing up those headlines. “I didn’t really need anybody, you know, at that time,” he continued. “Right before I was getting married, I was in a relationship with an with an A+ actress … When I met Khloé, so many things just fit naturally.”
Odom and Kardashian wed in 2009 and separated in 2013, but they didn’t officially divorce until 2016, after she helped him recover from his overdose.
On her podcast, the mother of two said she’s “never going to do another Lamar thing again” after how he spoke about her. “Everything’s a joke for you. You’re not accountable for anything,” she said of her ex, whose behavior she slammed as “gross.”
“I think what’s pissing me off is, we did this, all good. I was done with this,” she said. “But now Lamar is doing press [and saying he’s] annoyed with me. Claiming or insinuating that I’m a liar, all these things, discrediting me, saying that I wasn’t the one that helped him.”
As for Lamar and Khloé, only they truly know what happened inside their marriage. Everyone else is working with clips, headlines, and internet theories.
