So the myths and rumors about (some) basketball players being promiscuous are true, according to ex-NBA star Lamar Odom who reveals in his forthcoming autobiography that he’s a sex addict who’s bedded more than 2,000 women.
“I have been obsessed with sex for as long as I can remember,” the NBA champion writes in “Darkness to Light” — available on May 28.
“I am a sex addict,” the former husband to Khloé Kardashian owned up to in the book, which will be released by the independent Dallas-based publisher Ben Bella Books.
The 39-year-old former Los Angeles Lakers forward reveals that his many conquests included strippers and prostitutes.
“There were too many strippers to count,” he writes. “It wasn’t a big deal, but often I would pay them. I never thought less of them.”
Odom’s figure is high, but it pales compared to late Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain, who claimed to have had sex with 20,000 women.
Odom also admitted to being unfaithful to Kardashian throughout their tumultuous four-year marriage; she eventually discovered the infidelities and it played out for the world to see.
Odom, who was also managed by Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner, appeared on the hit reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and frontlined a short-lived series with his then wife, “Khloe & Lamar.”
“I was shocked and embarrassed,” the Queens, New York native told People in an exclusive interview. “I wanted to take it back, but you can’t. [I] wanted to hide it. But that sick sin was hard for me to hide … I had a problem.”
“[I] ran out of porn to watch! That’s how you know when you are going a little overboard,” he continued.
His sex addiction provided a pathway to his drug addiction.
“Sex was a trigger for me to do drugs,” he confessed. “Because you double up on [that] good feeling.”
In 2015, Odom overdosed and nearly died during a bender at the Love Ranch brothel in Las Vegas.
“That was the wake-up call,” Odom said. “Like, this can’t happen again.”
Reportedly drug-free, the former reality star admitted that he struggles with his demons.
“I’m still an addict,” he writes. “I still struggle … [But] I will not go into the darkness. Ever again.”
