Khloe Kardashian Says the “Demise” of Lamar Odom Hurt Her Family

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Khloe Kardashian is still coming to terms with her and Lamar Odom’s reunion.

While looking back on the first meeting she had with her ex-husband, nine years after their divorce, the Good American founder admitted that it’s something that she is still coming to terms with.

“I think I’m still processing what this meeting meant to me,” the 40-year-old explained in the March 6 episode of The Kardashians. “Lamar, because our dad died so young, Lamar was like the first man that ever came into our lives that was the head of the household.”

As Khloe noted, her dad Robert Kardashian Sr. passed away in 2003. “For all of us. Lamar was the protector,” she continued. “Everyone, even if someone was older looked up to Lamar. The way Lamar was on this pedestal, but deservingly.”

Khloe—who was married to Lamar from 2009 to 2016—explained how the end of their tumultuous relationship and his subsequent drug overdose in 2015, not only impacted her, but her entire family.

“It made me sad because the demise of Lamar, hurt and affected every single one my family,” Khloe—who shares kids True, 6, and Tatum, 2, with ex Tristan Thompson—said. “We still love and cherish him but like that man is just not there.”

In fact, after seeing Lamar, Khloe felt like, “I can’t help you anymore. You’ll never be the person that we all idolized.”

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Khloe came face-to-face with Lamar during the Feb. 6 episode of The Kardashians, after her friend Malika Haqq arranged a meeting. During the candid conversation, the pair spoke about the end of their relationship, and how Khloe stepped in to care for him in 2015, after he suffered a near-fatal overdose inside of a Nevada brothel.

After their meeting, the former Los Angeles Lakers star revealed the status of his and Khloe’s relationship and why it’s better that they have each moved on.

“So much time has passed,” he said during an interview on the Kyle & Jackie O Show Jan. 19. “And people change. I think it’s healthy sometimes to move on. In a healthy way. Like I said it would be a blessing to be her friend just to be around her.”

To keep up with the love lives of the Kardashians stars read below…

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Kris Jenner

Why, yes, Kris Jenner and longtime love Corey Gamble are still doing amazing, sweetie. In 2014, the music industry insider approached the world's most famous momager at fashion designer Riccardo Tisci's 40th

birthday bash in Ibiza and "I just tried saying, 'You're beautiful. I'd love to get to know you,'" he shared on the family's OG series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, "and it went from there."

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Kourtney Kardashian

With all due respect for all the small things, Kourtney Kardashian's husband has made some pretty grand gestures throughout their yearlong marriage. Take her 44th birthday that saw her and Travis Barker take a trip up the California coast to Santa Barbara. The Blink-182 drummer, 47, marked the occasion by filling their room at the famed Kennedy Cottage with rose petals and gifting her with a $161,819 piece by artist Yoshitomo Nara.

The Poosh founder has fully embraced her new life as the girl at the rock show. And in November 2023, she and Travis welcomed their first child together, son Rocky Thirteen Barker.

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Kim Kardashian

She briefly dated Odell Beckham Jr. until news broke of their split in April 2024.

As a source told E!, Kim is "open to finding love again if she meets the right person."

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