Watch: Khloé Kardashian Reacts to Lamar Odom Calling Her His “Wife” During Emotional Reunion
Khloe Kardashian will always have a place in Lamar Odom‘s heart.
The reality star came face-to-face with her ex-husband for the first time in nine years during the Feb. 6 season six premiere of The Kardashians, with Lamar surprisingly still referring to her as his “wife.”
After Khloe—who finalized her divorce from Lamar in 2016—handed back some of his belongings that were still in her possession, the former Los Angeles Lakers player joked, “My wife is the s–t.”
“OK,” the Good American founder quipped back, before brushing off his remark with a chuckle. “Calm down.”
But there was a reason why Khloe was guarded with her feelings.
“I don’t have a lot of emotions for this meeting,” she admitted in a confessional. “I have dealt with so much trauma in this relationship. For years, this was such the love of my life that to learn how to unlove someone, to have to go through all that, it’s almost like a death.”
The 40-year-old continued, “So, him calling me his wife, words are empty.”
Besides, Khloe noted, “I don’t know this person anymore.”
“This is so familiar and so unchartered all at the same time,” she explained. “It’s just a mindf–k.”
Prior to their reunion, Khloe last saw Lamar last in May 2016, seven months after he had suffered a drug overdose at a Las Vegas brothel. According to Khloe, he was still “doing things he shouldn’t have been doing” at the time, leading her to kick him out of her house.
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“I had to break contact with him because Lamar was repeating some of the same behaviors that I just couldn’t stand for,” she recounted in her confessional. “I was shocked that he was repeating those behaviors himself, coming out of the whole Vegas accident.”
Looking back, Khloe said that was the last straw in their marriage.
“I’ve given all I can give,” she said of their relationship. “I’ve tried to help all that I can help.”
Still, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum didn’t want Lamar to feel “uncomfortable” during their meeting.
“Don’t be nervous,” she told him. “Everything’s fine. I’m not going to do or say anything that’s scary.”
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The calming assurance led Lamar to open up. As the 45-year-old told Khloe, “I took you through a lot.”
“I love you for trying your hardest with me,” he added. “That love, I don’t think it’ll ever go away. I know it won’t.”
New episodes of The Kardashians air every Thursday on Hulu.
And for more details on the love lives of Khloe and her family, keep reading.
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Why, yes, Kris Jenner and longtime love Corey Gamble are still doing amazing, sweetie. In 2014, the music industry insider approached the world’s most famous momager at fashion designer Riccardo Tisci‘s 40th birthday bash in Ibiza and “I just tried saying, ‘You’re beautiful. I’d love to get to know you,'” he shared on the family’s OG series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, “and it went from there.”
With all due respect for all the small things, Kourtney Kardashian‘s husband has made some pretty grand gestures throughout their yearlong marriage. Take her 44th birthday that saw her and Travis Barker take a trip up the California coast to Santa Barbara. The Blink-182 drummer, 47, marked the occasion by filling their room at the famed Kennedy Cottage with rose petals and gifting her with a $161,819 piece by artist Yoshitomo Nara.
The Poosh founder has fully embraced her new life as the girl at the rock show. And in November 2023, she and Travis welcomed their first child together, son Rocky Thirteen Barker.
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As Kim Kardashian put it in a trailer of The Kardashians, “Things change really quickly.” When season two wrapped, the SKIMS founder was still living it up with then-Saturday Night Live standout Pete Davidson.
She later got fans hoping she was getting back in the dating game with retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady.
Alas, the mom to North West, Saint West, Chicago West and Psalm West—with ex-husband Kanye West—wasn’t on the hunt for a new teammate. “They have friends and business partners in common, but [are] not dating,” a source told E! News in May 2023. “Kim is very focused on her kids, her businesses, law school and preparing for American Horror Story.”
She briefly dated Odell Beckham Jr. until news broke of their split in April 2024.
As a source told E!, Kim is “open to finding love again if she meets the right person.”
In a 2023 episode, Kris shoots her shot while chatting with Khloe Kardashian about Tristan Thompson, asking, “How’s everything going with Tristan?” Safe to say the Good American founder has the L.A. Lakers power forward benched for now. Though the exes have worked out a game plan for raising daughter True and son Tatum, Khloe shot down the idea that they’re back together in May 2023, calling the narrative “tiring.”
She’s more interested in starting a fresh story. After meeting Love Is Blind star Alexa Lemieux the following April, Khloe pitched a winning idea to Netflix, writing on Instagram, “I think some of us single K sisters should go on LIB. What do you think?”
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Months after Kendall Jenner‘s split with NBA guard Devin Booker in fall 2022 , the model’s love life got an assist from friends Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber. The married duo were spotted enjoying a double date with the reality star, 27, and musician Bad Bunny, 29, in February 2023. The following December, it was reported that the two had called it quits.
Seems Kylie Jenner has found herself a new beautiful boy. Last seen publicly with rapper Travis Scott—dad to her daughter Stormi, 5, and son Aire, 15 months—at an Art Basel party in December, the beauty mogul, 25, has been linked to Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet, 27, since April 2023. Now, rise and shine because you don’t want to miss the glimpses they’ve given us of their romance at New York Fashion Week and the US Open, as well as live on TV, when they showed PDA while seated together at the 2024 Golden Globes.
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