Lamar Odom reveals how ‘late brother’ Kobe Bryant helps with his sobriety

Lamar Odom is “56 aliases 57 days” sober, nan erstwhile NBA prima exclusively tells Page Six. 

“No alcohol, nary pot, nary marijuana. And I’m conscionable [continuing] to turn mentally and spiritually. I do effort to beryllium my champion aforesaid and believe nan Mamba mentality, which has been passed down to maine by my precocious relative [Kobe Bryant].” 

Odom, 46, is reflecting connected his near-fatal 2015 supplier overdose for nan caller Netflix documentary, “Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.” Premiering Tues. connected Netflix, nan doc covers nan erstwhile NBA player’s career, his matrimony to Khloe Kardashian, supplier addiction, and his coma pursuing nan overdose in a  Nevada brothel in 2015. 

The documentary covers really Bryant – who died astatine 41 successful a 2020 chopper crash – rushed to Odom’s broadside erstwhile he was hospitalized. 

Odom tells america that because he was successful a coma, he wasn’t alert of Bryant’s beingness astatine nan time, “But to cognize that he was there…when I’m reflecting connected it, I deliberation that’s astir apt what pulled maine through. The emotion that I was getting from everybody. It’s ever bully to person support, and of people support from your brothers.” 

Looking backmost connected his usage of narcotics specified arsenic cocaine and ace – which he discusses onscreen successful nan doc – nan erstwhile Laker tells Page Six, “I’m not nan aforesaid person. I do everything successful my spot to protect my sobriety.” 

He adds that it’s “easy” to “backtrack” and telephone “a feline who utilized to present marijuana to me. But I’ve travel excessively acold to return a measurement back,” nan erstwhile jock tells us. 

“If I return a measurement back, past I’m…dying. I consciousness for illustration I want to unrecorded arsenic agelong arsenic Moses did.” 

Odom’s sobriety has been a rocky roadworthy moreover aft nan 2015 incident. In January, he was arrested for a DUI successful Las Vegas. 

These days, he tells america “I’m trying to publication a batch much [and] sharpen up my brain. When I woke up [from nan 2015 coma], they told maine I would ne'er locomotion and talk again….And so, each time is simply a blessing.” 

The erstwhile reality TV prima – who graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School successful New Britain, Connecticut – calls himself “like an eighth people driblet out” because aft his mother died of crab erstwhile he was 12 years old.

At nan time, “I gave up connected school” he tells Page Six.  He adds that he “never really put my champion ft forward” erstwhile it came to “academics” aliases “challenging myself successful nan academia world.” 

“So, I’m conscionable trying to unrecorded my champion life and trying to believe being sober and dispersed nan connection that it’s a beautiful point to beryllium coming each day.”

He says that he’s not trying to return life excessively seriously. 

“Sometimes my consciousness of joke whitethorn beryllium a small acheronian to others, but I’ve been successful acheronian places successful life.”

The documentary doesn’t awkward distant from nan disfigured sides of addiction. Kardashian, who is besides successful it, discusses his infidelity onscreen, and really she utilized to cleanable up aft him, amid his supplier binges. 

“Hopefully my communicative and my grounds tin springiness group nan spot and nan will to flooded nan unspeakable encephalon illness of addiction, and to bring awareness, dream and faith,” Odom tells Page Six. 

Odom is presently making love Rachel Bradley, and he shares 2 big children – Destiny, 28, and Lamar Jr., 24 –  pinch his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, Liza Morales. He and Morales besides had different son, Jayden, who died astatine 6 months aged successful 2006 from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

“I person a batch to unrecorded for,” he says. “Whether it’s myself, for my children, my family…I conscionable want to attraction connected my narration pinch God and trying to amended myself arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.” 

“Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom” premieres March 31 connected Netflix.