Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom got married on September 27, 2009, just one month after they first met at an NBA party. Their quick romance was featured in season 4 of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” in an episode called “The Wedding,” which showed their whole courtship in a 90-minute special.
Khloe’s family was surprised by the fast pace, and her sisters, Kim and Kourtney, expressed doubt about getting married just nine days after Lamar proposed.
In an episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on April 16, 2025, Khloe, now 40, revealed that her sister Kim and her mother Kris knew about her partners’ cheating before she did. Khloe said, “Kim was aware of the cheating—both instances, I think Kim learned about it first. It’s wild. My mom, with my ex-husband, knew things before me and had to inform me.”
The Marriage and Its Dissolution
Khloe and Lamar’s marriage lasted from September 2009 to December 2016, but they were separated for years before their divorce was finalised. After their wedding, Khloe changed her name to Khloe Kardashian Odom. The couple even had their reality show called “Khloe & Lamar,” which aired from 2011 to 2012.
During the podcast, Khloe shared a painful memory when she caught Lamar cheating at a motel in downtown Los Angeles. “I was quite young, around 26,” she recalled. “I looked through the window and saw him with a girl, either naked or in lingerie. I knocked on the door, and for some reason, they opened it. I just lost it.”
After rumours about their separation, Khloe filed for divorce on December 13, 2013. They signed the divorce papers in July 2015, but it wasn’t finalised right away. In October 2015, when Lamar was hospitalised after being found unconscious in a Nevada brothel, Khloe withdrew her divorce petition so she could make medical decisions for him, although she clarified they had not reconciled. The divorce was completed in December 2016.
Pattern of Betrayal
Khloe’s revelations about her family knowing of her partners’ cheating also applied to her relationship with Tristan Thompson. She explained how Kim found out about Tristan’s cheating while preparing for “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” interviews. “When Kim found out about Tristan cheating on me, it was right before she was about to go into an interview, and it unfolded while she was in the chair,” Khloe explained.
Despite the painful way these secrets came out, Khloe preferred to hear about the cheating from family members rather than strangers. She said, “I would rather it be a family member than someone I don’t know. I dislike that these things happened, but I would have preferred it be them. I’m not someone who gets upset with the messenger.”
Looking back on her relationships, Khloe shared some advice based on her experiences: “From my experience, I don’t believe people can truly change in that regard. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. That’s a lesson I had to learn the hard way.”