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Netflix’s new documentary about former NBA player Lamar Odom, Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom, includes a harrowing anecdote about late NBA legend Kobe Bryant. According to the doc, Kobe flew to Las Vegas to help Odom’s then-partner Khloe Kardashian decide whether to perform a risky surgery on Odom’s collapsed lung.
Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom premiered on Netflix on March 31 on Netflix and details the full turbulent arc of Lamar Odom’s life — from his two NBA championships with the Lakers to his marriage to Khloé Kardashian to his near-fatal October 2015 overdose at a Nevada brothel.
The late Kobe Bryant flew to Las Vegas to help Khloe Kardashian make a life-or-death decision about Lamar Odom after his infamous overdose
In that infamous near-death experience, Odom was found at The Love Ranch — about 80 miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada — unresponsive, and suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks before being placed in a medically induced coma.
With Odom unconscious and his body failing, Bryant — one of Odom’s closest teammates — flew to Las Vegas to help Kardashian decide whether to risk surgery on Odom’s collapsed lung. The pair ultimately decided to move forward with the surgery, which was successfully, but left Odom in a coma for three to four days.
After the live-saving procedure on his collapsed lung and his coma, Odom apparently ripped the tubes out of his neck, looked at Kardashian and said “Hey baby” before passing back out.
“I was there for about four months with him, every single day. We were determined to get him walking and moving again,” Kardashian said on the harrowing experience.
According to Odom, however, it was not the overdose or any subsequent intervention that pushed Odom to make a change, but rather, a dream in which Bryant appeared to him and said, “L-O, the afterlife is not what people make it out to be.”
Lamar Odom says Kobe Bryant visited him in a dream and shared a chilling message about the afterlife 😳
“He looked back at me and said, ‘Hello, the afterlife is not what people make it up to be.’”
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