LOS ANGELES, United States — Khloé Kardashian has said her relationship with former husband Lamar Odom is beyond repair, declaring him “dead to me” after taking issue with comments he made about their marriage in the Netflix documentary Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.

Speaking in the November 12 episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Kardashian said she regretted agreeing to appear in the documentary after hearing Odom’s account of their relationship. She said she had participated at his request and believed she was helping him, but felt his remarks were disrespectful and undermined her role in his life.

“You’re saying that you weren’t really in love with me, you married me just so you could be more popular in pop culture,” she said, describing the comments as “really, really lame.” She added that she did not expect Odom to thank her, but wanted him to stop discussing her in a way she felt discredited her.

“The bridge is burned and there’s no more rope left to throw over. So he is dead to me,” Kardashian said during the episode.

Why Kardashian is upset

The disagreement centres on the way Odom’s documentary revisits their whirlwind marriage, his struggles with substance abuse and Kardashian’s involvement after his near-fatal overdose in 2015.

Kardashian said she took part in the documentary because Odom had asked her to contribute. She told viewers she was not paid for the appearance and had agreed because she wanted to be kind. After watching the finished project and hearing his comments, she said she felt the experience had been distasteful.

Her frustration was also tied to the portrayal of her role during Odom’s medical crisis. In 2015, the former NBA player was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel after a drug overdose. He suffered multiple strokes and heart attacks, spent several days in a coma and required a lengthy recovery. Kardashian, who was still legally his wife at the time, paused their divorce proceedings and remained closely involved in his care.

During the episode, Scott Disick reminded Kardashian of the period when she helped care for Odom. She responded that she did not need recognition or gratitude, but objected to what she considered an attempt to diminish her contribution.

What Odom said about their marriage

In Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, Odom discussed how quickly he and Kardashian moved from meeting to marriage in 2009. The pair met that year, became engaged within weeks and married on September 27, less than a month after their first meeting.

The documentary included Odom reflecting on the Kardashian family’s lifestyle and public profile. His comments, alongside statements from people interviewed for the film, prompted questions about whether fame and access to the family’s celebrity world had influenced his decision to marry.

Odom’s daughter, Destiny, offered a more nuanced account in the documentary, saying her father did love Kardashian but had wanted to appear on reality television for a long time. The film also revisited the couple’s reality series, Khloé & Lamar, and the pressures that came with putting their relationship on camera.

Odom disputes the claim that he married for fame

Odom later pushed back against the suggestion that he married Kardashian simply to gain celebrity status. In an appearance on Louis Ruggiero’s podcast Nothing’s Off the Table, he said he had not claimed that he married her for “clout” and suggested the comment may have come from one of his children or another documentary participant.

Odom also said he loved Kardashian, while arguing that he did not need her to become famous. His response is an important part of the dispute: Kardashian is reacting to how she understood the documentary and its surrounding interviews, while Odom has contested the interpretation that he married her for publicity.

The documentary also included Odom acknowledging the speed of their relationship and the appeal of the Kardashian family’s lifestyle. Those comments, however, do not by themselves establish that publicity was his sole reason for marrying her.

A turbulent relationship revisited

Kardashian and Odom married in 2009 and starred in their own reality series, Khloé & Lamar. Their relationship later deteriorated amid Odom’s substance-use struggles and reports of infidelity. Kardashian filed for divorce in 2013, but the process was put on hold after his 2015 overdose so she could help manage aspects of his medical care. She filed again in 2016, and the divorce was finalised that December.

The latest exchange shows how the former couple’s history continues to be revisited through documentaries, interviews and reality television. For Kardashian, the issue is not simply how the marriage began, but the feeling that her support during one of the most difficult periods of Odom’s life has been misrepresented.

For Odom, the documentary has offered an opportunity to tell his story from his perspective, including his memories of the relationship and recovery. His subsequent clarification suggests he does not accept the claim that he married Kardashian only for fame.

Neither side’s account can fully resolve the personal history between them. But Kardashian’s latest comments make clear that she does not want further public discussion of their marriage and considers the relationship firmly in the past.

Photo: Khloé Kardashian in Sydney in November 2011. Photo by Eva Rinaldi / Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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