Khloe Kardashian has recently opened up about the time she caught her ex-husband Lamar Odom cheating on her at a motel. Khloe married the basketball player in 2009 just months after meeting him, but the relationship soon unraveled due to Lamar’s substance abuse and infidelity. She filed for divorce in 2013, and it was finalized in 2016.
On an April 16th appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Good American founder explained how she caught her former husband cheating on her with a younger woman. When he caught her with a younger woman, Khloe admitted she “started going ballistic.”
The reality TV star opened up on the podcast that she found out about the cheating scandal and knocked angrily on the door. She told the podcast host, “We were married. He was doing his thing, and he went down to some motel in Downtown LA and was with a girl. I saw in the window that he and this girl were … they were either naked or she was in lingerie, something like that.”
While she did not go into detail what happened, she admitted the altercation left her with visible marks.
"And I remember the next day it was, I think, Penelope’s birthday party, and it was a cowboy party, and my knuckles were all bloody and gross, and I just had bandanas wrapped around [them]. I was on theme, and I acted as if nothing ever happened."
Khloe added that her then-husband was shocked and confused by the entrepreneur showing up at the motel room and “could not understand how I knew where he was.” She told her husband she didn’t want to tell him how she learned about the meet-up, but was more concerned why he was “in a motel in Downtown LA at 3 in the morning.”
In his memoir, Darkness to Light, Lamar Odom admitted that he started their romance being faithful but ultimately couldn’t handle “the lethal cocktail of the spotlight, addiction, a diminishing career, and infidelity. Oh, did I mention the paranoia, anxiety, depression?”
In 2016, Khloe Kardashian opened up to Howard Stern in an interview about her relationship with Lamar. She explained that it was “humiliating” to be cheated on throughout her marriage.
"Love is blind … Lamar was so great at making me feel like I was the only one and I’m this princess. I never speculated cheating … so I didn’t know about cheating … until before the DUI [in 2013]."
Meanwhile, Lamar told PEOPLE in 2019 how much he regretted cheating on his wife. “I wish I could have been more of a man. It still bothers me to this day. But regret is something we have to learn to live with.”
On the season 6 finale of The Kardashians, Khloe opened up about being treated like a “doormat” by her exes. "I get offended, whether it be Tristan [Thompson] or Lamar, where these people do these outrageous things and then they see me again and act as if nothing happened. Or they’re like, ‘Oh, I wish I could put my tongue down your throat,'" she said to her sisters on her Hulu show.
"I’m like, all you guys, f*** every single person around me, cause everyone loves to say how great I am after, but why don’t you think that before? But it’s really insulting to me," she added.