LOS ANGELES, USA – Lamar Odom, a former National Basketball Association (NBA) champion who became a tabloid target before splitting from reality TV star wife Khloe Kardashian, is "fighting for his life" after a brothel binge in Nevada, TMZ reported Tuesday, October 14.
The celebrity gossip website reported that Odom, who won NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010, was hospitalized after he was found unconscious in his room at the Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada.
In August of 2013 Odom, the subject of a rash of news stories about alleged drug use and troubles in his marriage to Kardashian, was arrested for drunk driving.
Kardashian filed for divorce from Odom in December of 2013, although the split was not immediately finalized.
Odom, who was the 2011 6th man of the year as the NBA's top reserve and won Olympic bronze with the USA in Athens, has endured numerous personal hardships in his life.
He was raised by his grandmother after his mother died of colon cancer when he was 12 years old.
He was estranged from his heroin-addict father at an early age and in 2006 his 6-month-old son Jayden, one of three children with his onetime girlfriend Liza Morales, died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. – Rappler.com