‘Sex, Drugs and Kardashians’ Preview: Lamar Odom Says He Is ‘Too Shy’ to Ask Ex-Wife Khloe Kardashian Out to Dinner as Friends

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Still on his mind. Lamar Odom isn’t done trying to have a friendship with ex-wife Khloé Kardashian — but he isn’t ready to tell her that in person.“I would just love to take Khloé out to dinner,” Odom, 43, says in Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek at TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs & Kardashians special, which premieres on Monday, January 2.Host Harvey Levin asks, “For what purpose?” to which the former basketball player responds, “Being her friend.

That’s it.”Odom explains that the reason he hasn’t reached out to his former spouse for a joint meal is that he’s “too shy.” He further reveals: “And I’m a Scorpio and I hate being told no and being denied.

I’m afraid.”The New York native fell quickly for the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum, 38, in 2009. The pair tied the knot in September of that year after just one month of dating.The fairy tale romance, however, began to unravel in 2013 after four years of marriage — and they split that December.“The addiction had taken over their marriage,” a mutual friend exclusively told Us in August 2013 of Odom’s substance issues. “The problem is cocaine.

He would be high for three or four days at a time.”Kardashian, however, paused the divorce in 2015 after Odom suffered a near-fatal overdose in October.