Khloé Kardashian says she spent hours working on Lamar Odom’s Netflix documentary as a favor and did not get paid one penny for it, then felt blindsided when he later went public and disputed her account. On a recent episode of her podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land, Kardashian said she agreed to take part only after weeks of hesitation and after Netflix emphasized that Odom wanted her included because she was a big chapter in his life.
“I willingly do the Netflix thing for Lamar. I’m not getting paid one penny to do this,” Kardashian said, adding that she did it because she wanted to make sure the project was handled in the best way. She said she spent hours on the documentary, tried to ensure it would be a positive piece, and did not see the finished film in full until it was released last month.
Kardashian said the project took a toll because it forced her back into painful memories she had already tried to leave behind. “Do people think I just like talking about this all day? Fuck no, it’s traumatic,” she said. “I have to relive things. I have to talk about things that weren’t fun in my life. So, it’s like, no, I don’t just feel like doing this.”
She also said Odom had spent years praising her before what she described as his recent change in tone. “For years he was singing my praises,” she said. “I don’t even need you to sing my praises. But you’re not now going to shit on me or now play in my face because you don’t like the reaction and the response from the public.” Kardashian said he had been discrediting her by saying she was not the one who helped him, even after relying on her involvement for the documentary.
Odom’s documentary, The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, was released last month and includes separate interviews with both Kardashian and Odom. In a Today interview after the release, Odom attributed his life being saved to God rather than Kardashian and disputed her claim that his father wanted to take him off life support. Kardashian said Netflix told her Odom was asking for her to be part of the project, and she agreed after considering the offer for months.
The documentary revisits Odom’s 2015 scare, when he was found unresponsive at the Love Ranch brothel outside Las Vegas. Kardashian’s interviews included her recollections of caring for him after his overdose and calling off divorce proceedings during his recovery, which made her later comments on the podcast land as both a personal grievance and a public correction. Her complaint now is straightforward: she says she gave time, money and trust to a project about Odom, and then saw him use the same publicity cycle to challenge her version of events. That leaves the release of The Death & Life of Lamar Odom with a sharper answer than the film itself offered — Kardashian says she was there, she was unpaid, and she felt played once the promotion began.
