Lamar Odom has been arrested and charged for driving underneath the affect (DUI) in Las Vegas.
Lamar Odom was arrested for DUI in Las Vegas
The 46-year-old former basketball star was apprehended within the early hours of Saturday (17.01.26) morning on a DUI cost and two visitors violations, court docket information present.
Lamar, who was beforehand married to actuality star Khloe Kardashian, is accused of driving greater than 41 miles per hour over the pace restrict and making an improper lane change/or having a failure to take care of his lane.
The previous Los Angeles Lakers star – who was beforehand arrested for DUI in 2013 – has been open about his struggles with drug and alcohol dependancy and virtually misplaced his life after overdosing on cocaine, alcohol and hashish at a Las Vegas brothel in 2015.
Writing in regards to the ordeal in his 2019 e book Darkness to Gentle, Odom wrote: “My coronary heart stopped twice. I had 12 seizures and 6 strokes. My lungs collapsed and my kidneys ruptured. I used to be on life help. Everybody I would ever liked was me by bleary eyes.
“(The overdose) made me realise I could not dwell the way in which I would been dwelling.”
Lamar married Khloe after only one month of relationship in 2009 however The Kardashians star knew she needed to file for divorce 4 years later following a “pivotal second” throughout a dialog when the sports activities star was within the grip of dependancy.
Talking on her Khloe in Wonderland podcast final 12 months, the 41-year-old star mentioned: “I bear in mind, I used to be married and my ex-husband had a drug dependancy.
“And I knew that his dependancy all the time heightened – he was within the NBA – and his dependancy all the time heightened when he was within the low season, trigger idle time is the satan’s playground.
“And so I bear in mind he was requested to go to Crew USA, if I bear in mind appropriately, and I used to be begging, ‘Please, please go to Crew USA’, and I used to be pushing, and I bear in mind he simply checked out me and mentioned, ‘You may’t need it greater than I do.’
“It was so profound… I needed it so badly, as a result of I needed to assist him and to get him to really feel the motivation and really feel good, however he simply wasn’t in that place.”
Khloe continued: “It took me a very long time to get to, then I needed to file for divorce.
“That was a really pivotal second in my life as a result of I keep in mind that assertion being like… ‘Yeah, you are proper. I am unable to need your life greater than you.'”
