Lamar Odom has revealed what led to his reunion with ex-wife Khloé Kardashian more than a decade after their split.
The former Los Angeles Lakers star got candid about his upcoming appearance on Season 6 of “The Kardashians,” saying he was encouraged to reconnect with his ex after meeting his close friend Malika Haqq.
“I ran into (Malika) in Las Vegas, I think it was Super Bowl weekend,” Odom said on Sunday’s episode of “The Kyle & Jackie O Show.”
“She came up to me and said, ‘You know Lamar, I think it’s time for you and Khloé, it’s been years.’ You haven’t seen it, if you’re up for it, I think I could make it.
Odom, 45, recalls arriving at the Good American co-founder’s Hidden Hills, Calif., home with a bouquet of roses and being caught off guard by the camera crew who were there to film the next season of the series.
“I went there and there were cameras there,” the retired NBA player said. “It’s cool, I understand.”
When asked if he and Kardashian, 40, were back together, Odom replied, “I wouldn’t say back together.” It would be a blessing to be her friend.
“So much time has passed and people have changed,” he said, adding that he had changed “for the better.”
Kardashian seemed to agree with her ex-husband’s stance that “people change” when she admitted in the “Kardashians” Season 6 trailer, “I don’t know that person anymore.”
However, the reality star’s mother, Kris Jenner, appeared to be heartbroken over her daughter’s reunion with Odom, saying in a confessional: “He was (he) the love of her life.”
Kardashian and Odom rushed to the altar in 2009 after a month of dating. She filed for divorce four years later.
Kardashian, however, put a pause on their divorce in 2015 when her now ex-husband had an accidental overdose and ended up in a coma.
At the time, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” alum became Odom’s caretaker.
In May 2016, Kardashian filed for divorce again and they finalized their separation in December.
Kardashian later moved on with Tristian Thompson, and the two were in an on-again, off-again relationship from 2016 to 2021.
She and Thompson share daughter True, 6, and son Tatum, 2.
