‘I’m too shy’ to take Khloe Kardashian’s ex out to dinner

Still on his mind. Lamar Odom not yet finished trying to befriend his ex-wife Khloe Kardashian — but he’s not ready to tell her in person.

“I’d just like to take Chloe out to dinner,” says Odom, 43, in Us weeklyexclusive review TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs and the Kardashians special, which will premiere on Monday, January 2.

Master Harvey Levin asks: “For what purpose?” to which the former basketball player replies, “To be her friend. That’s all.”

Odom explains that the reason he didn’t approach his ex-wife for a meal together is because he’s “too shy”. He further reveals, “I’m a Scorpio and I hate being told no and denied. I’m afraid.”

The New Yorker quickly fell in love with Keep up with the Kardashians alum, aged 38, in 2009. The couple married in September of that year after only one month of dating.

However, the fairy tale romance began to unravel in 2013 after four years of marriage, and they split in December.

“The addiction took over their marriage,” a mutual friend said exclusively. Us in August 2013 about problems with keeping Odom. “The problem is cocaine. He could be high for three or four days in a row.”

However, Kardashian put the divorce on hold in 2015 after Odom suffered a near-fatal overdose in October. At the time, the retired NBA player was hospitalized in Nevada and suffered multiple strokes after being found unconscious in a legal brothel.

Once Odom got back on his feet in early 2016, Strong looks better naked The author filed for divorce a second time. Former Chloe and Lamar the stars settled the case in December 2016.

“When I came out of my coma, she took care of me,” the former Los Angeles Lakers star said exclusively. Us in February about how Kardashian took care of him. “I’m talking about the woman who wiped my butt when I couldn’t do it myself. Well, I love her for it. She had a lot of dignity and pride, just like me.”

The founder of Good American continued his romantic relationship with Tristan Thompsonand in April 2018, the couple had a four-year-old daughter, Tru. Although the couple broke up for good in 2021, they expanded their family in the summer of 2022 by adopting a son through a surrogate mother.

Meanwhile, Odom has openly expressed regret over the way he and Kardashian broke up over the years.

“I never thought about getting married again. I mistreated this good woman,” the former professional athlete said during an episode in February 2022. Celebrity Big Brother, adding that he hopes to contact Chloe again. “I wish I was mature enough to deal with [marriage] right, but I wasn’t. If the opportunity arises again, now I know what to do. What to do and what not to do. Sometimes I find it hard to sleep at night thinking about her.”

Seven months later, the basketball guru said he was watching Kardashian — but it’s not always easy to see the ups and downs of his ex-wife. “It was hard for me to watch it,” Odom said. E! News in September 2022 in preparation for the second season. “It will always be hard for me to watch someone I love so much feel sad.”

Meanwhile, Odom plans to reveal everything about his relationship with the Kardashians and her family in the upcoming TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs and the Kardashians documentary.

According to the official synopsis, the “revealing” special will have viewers “take a deep dive into Lamar Odom’s troubled marriage to Khloe Kardashian, which was as memorable as his incredible basketball career.”

The retired athlete will talk “like never before about his sex addiction and drug use and how it destroyed his marriage to the love of his life and turned him into a shell of his former self,” according to the description.

TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs and the Kardashians Premieres on Fox on Monday, January 2nd at 9pm ET.