Lamar Odom "Afraid" to Reach Out to Khloe Kardashian Again

Lamar Odom is hoping to assistance others with their ain sobriety journeys.

The erstwhile NBA star, who's been unfastened astir his past struggles with substance abuse, has launched Odom Wellness Treatment Centers, a postulation of facilities successful Southern California that offer rehabilitation programs for those struggling with addiction, according to its website.

On April 3, Odom posted a photograph of himself alongside his partners and unit astatine 1 of his 3 attraction centers. "So Blessed," helium captioned the image. "God saved me, truthful I tin prevention others."

The endeavor comes much than 7 years aft Odom's near-fatal overdose astatine a Nevada brothel successful 2015. The harrowing ordeal—during which Odom suffered a fig of wellness issues, including kidney failure—led him to get sober.

"When God had saved maine from that accident, I was trying to find my purpose—and I deliberation I whitethorn person recovered it," he explained of his determination to put successful the facilities during a caller quality on TMZ Live. "I know I person recovered it."

"For maine to person rehabilitation centers and wellness centers is simply a large deal," helium added. "I privation to enactment them everywhere. Drugs are atrocious everywhere."

And Odom isn't acrophobic to stock his story. After all, the athlete's sobriety travel was documented in his memoir Darkness to Light, a book his ex-wife Khloe Kardashian praised for its honest instrumentality connected addiction.

"A batch of this worldly wasn't my spot to ever speech about, but it's decidedly his spot arsenic this happened to him," the Good American mogul said the memoir successful a 2019 occurrence of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "I really deliberation it's truly courageous to speech astir the magnitude of addiction that he's had."