Khloé Kardashian Says Ex Lamar Odom 'Hounding' for Her Number Was the 'Best Thing' He Did: 'A Turn On'

Khloé Kardashian looks back on her early days with ex-husband Lamar Odom.

During the June 20 episode The KardashiansKhloé recalled Lamar’s persistence early on in their relationship while talking to best friend Malika Haqq about her current relationship struggles.

“He didn’t stop texting me last night, I just didn’t respond,” Malika (41) revealed to Khloé about the new man she was talking to.

In response, Khloé, 39, told her best friend, “Oh, I love a person who knows what they want.”

“The best thing that Lamar did — okay, not the best thing, he did a lot of good things — but when I wouldn’t give him my number, but then he found out we had the same business manager,” she recalled. “And then [he] hounded Lester for my information. It was a turn-on, it’s sexy… you want some aggression.”

Khloé Kardashian (left) and Lamar Odom. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Khloé Kardashian nursed Lamar Odom in a coma, gave her ‘tools’ to care for Tristan Thompson’s brother Amaria

She then added, “I also don’t think it’s good when we’re both comfortable being single without wanting to date,” before promising that she’ll eventually get back on the dating scene, but not without some parameters.

“It’s a scary world out here, phones are everywhere,” Khloé said. “I definitely think what I went through is a factor in why I’m not just like, ‘Let’s just start dating again!'”

“I don’t want to screw up my kids,” she continues. “So much has already happened that could potentially screw them up that I don’t want to add to that by bringing in someone new to mix because so far people have been very disappointed. I’m just not going to open up in the same way that I used to, but I don’t think there’s anything in that bad, I also think that’s what you grow up doing, you learn to protect yourself.”

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Khloé married Lamar on September 27, 2009 — a month after they met — but in 2013, the marriage began to fall apart following an NBA player cheating scandal and a drug relapse. By December, Khloé filed for divorce.

In July 2015, both stars finally signed the divorce papers. That October, Lamar was rushed to the hospital after his years-long struggle with drug addiction came to a head when he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel. He remained in the hospital, mostly in a coma, for months.

Despite their ongoing divorce at the time, Khloé rushed to the hospital and stayed by Lamar’s side. The Good American founder – who made all of Lamar’s medical decisions – eventually decided to end their long-running divorce proceedings. However, after Lamar was released from the hospital and on the road to recovery, the two formalized their split in December 2016.

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Khloé later dated NBA player Tristan Thompson. The two were on and off for years, weathering several cheating scandals, before calling it quits for good in 2021. They’re still on friendly terms as parents to their two children, daughter True, 6, and son Tatum, 22 months.

The reality star has since steadfastly maintained that she is happy being single and has no desire to enter into a new relationship.

“I’m very satisfied and happy,” she explained in the previous episode. “I feel like I’m fucking thriving in my little circle and the world, but just to think that someone’s in my space where I have to share my TV or my bed, I mean, no means no and that’s all you need to know, I guess I’m finding my rhythm again .”

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