When a Kardashian thinks there are too many cameras around you, it might be time to reevaluate your thirst for fame.
On Tuesday, March 31, Volume 4 of sports documentary series Untold, created by Wild, Wild Country brothers Chapman and Maclain Way, premieres on Netflix with The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.
The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, directed Ryan Duffy, brings viewers back to 2015, when the recently retired NBA star and the husband of Khloé Kardashian was found unresponsive at the Love Ranch, a brothel outside Las Vegas. The doc features (separate) interviews with Khloé & Lamar, partially in which the now-divorced couple discuss, well, Khloé & Lamar.
Kardashian says the 2011-12 E! reality show was completely Odom’s doing.
“Khloé & Lamar was not my idea. Khloé & Lamar was led very much by Lamar. I was spread really thin,” Khloé says. “I also didn’t really want it to jeopardize the family brand, which was [Keeping Up with the Kardashians] at the time. I thought there were so many Kardashian shows.”
Odom, meanwhile, wanted (at least) one Odom show.
“This is how I wanna live,” Odom says in the doc of witnessing the Kardashian celebrity and lifestyle up close. At the time, Odom was well known in Hollywood as a two-time NBA Champion with the Los Angeles Lakers (2009, 2010) and the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year (2011) — but he wasn’t Kardashian-famous. Not yet.
Odom had a plan, one he relayed to childhood buddy Shannon “Pumpkin” Brown, who occasionally appeared on Khloé & Lamar, at his actual wedding to Kardashian.
“He was explaining the moves he was doing,” Brown says in the doc, recalling a conversation he and Odom had at the very-Hollywood affair. “He was doing it to better his future.”
“Part of the deal was that, if I marry you, fuck it, I want in on it too,” Odom says of his and Khloé’s very public high-speed romance.
Who says romance is a lost art?
“Lamar loves a camera,” Khloé says.
OK, so maybe her — and probably you when you watch The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.
The Death & Life of Lamar Odom is executive produced by the Ways, Duffy, Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, Isabel San Vargas, Jeff Jenkins and Shondrella Avery. Jake Graham-Felsen and Carolyn Craddock are co-executive producers of the film, which hails from Propagate and Stardust Frames Productions.
Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom premieres one week from today on Netflix. Untold: Vol. 4 continues the following week with the excellent Chess Mates (April 7), ahead of Untold: Jail Blazers (April 14) and season finale Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill (April 21).
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