New doc recounts chaos after Lamar Odom’s brothel overdose

Lamar Odom could barely speak.

Following his overdose after three days of partying at the Love Ranch in Nye County, Odom couldn’t be left to shower on his own because his brain couldn’t process the difference between hot and cold water.

“I had 12 strokes and six heart attacks, dude. Like, that’s not no average (expletive),” the former NBA star says in “Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom,” debuting Tuesday on Netflix.

Khloé Kardashian, his estranged wife who’d been by his side throughout his hospitalizations, rented a house near hers where Odom could continue to recover. She says in the documentary she came over one night and caught him smoking crack.

“I just put my life on hold to (expletive) take care of you,” Kardashian says. “How did you get this? You don’t have a (expletive) phone. You can’t talk.”

Kardashian also says she punched Odom in the face.

It’s the second documentary project in the past nine months to focus on the events of Oct. 13, 2015, when Odom was found unresponsive at Dennis Hof’s brothel in Crystal. Last summer’s A&E docuseries “Secrets of the Bunny Ranch” devoted one of its six episodes to the media firestorm that followed.

In an interview with the Review-Journal to promote that series, DeAnne Holliday, Hof’s former publicist and personal assistant, said the late brothel owner exploited Odom’s overdose.

“It should never have gotten out in the media,” Holliday said last year. “But Dennis, I know, called TMZ.”

The Netflix documentary backs this up through interviews with Richard Hunter, the Love Ranch manager at the time. (The brothel was demolished in 2024.)

“The very first words out of (Hof’s) mouth,” Hunter says, “are, ‘OK, I called TMZ. I told the National Enquirer that they can have the exclusive interview, but TMZ’s going to break the story.’ ”

Elsewhere in “Untold,” Odom’s now ex-wife talks about some of the chaos that transpired at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center — including some of his “friends” who came to visit.

“I found out, like, three of them were drug dealers that were wanting to collect money, rummaging through his personal bags,” Kardashian says.

Odom’s father, Joe, came to the hospital despite having little presence in his son’s life.

“I assume (Joe) thought he’s now the beneficiary to Lamar,” Kardashian says. “Joe just said, ‘Don’t put him on life support. Turn those machines off.’ ”

Kardashian declared she was still Odom’s wife and would make those decisions. Then she asked Joe what he needed.

“Joe wanted a pair of Nikes and a hundred dollars and a hotel room for the night,” Kardashian says. “And Joe left and never came back.”

“The Death & Life of Lamar Odom” concludes on an upbeat note, with Odom seemingly in a good place.

“At the end of the day, we’re all really just trying to find out,” he says. “For me, it’s the search and the quest for life. Like, why am I here? Why did God spare me?”

It does not mention, at least in the version provided to the media, the events of Jan. 17.

Odom was arrested that morning by the Nevada Highway Patrol. Police said he drove more than 110 mph on Interstate 15 south of Russell Road and failed multiple sobriety tests while smelling of marijuana.

His bench trial is scheduled for July 7.

Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4567.