The new Netflix documentary Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, which premiered March 31, revisits the NBA star’s near-fatal 2015 overdose and the family fallout that followed. The film assembles first-hand accounts — including a brothel manager, Khloé Kardashian and Odom’s adult children — that add fresh detail to an already well-known crisis.

What happened at the Love Ranch

Former Love Ranch manager Richard Hunter describes staff learning that Odom, then 35, would arrive in 2015 during his divorce from Khloé Kardashian. “His handlers or someone actually contacted the brothel and wanted a car to pick him up. It definitely became real when he gave him the address,” Hunter says.

Hunter says he was working the morning Odom went into medical distress. He recalled the room being “completely blacked out” and that Odom was “heavily” snoring — a sign something was wrong. When staff and EMTs tried to move the 6-foot-10 athlete, they used the fitted sheet as an improvised carry device. “I looked down at his face and I just remember thinking, ‘This guy may be dead,'” Hunter recalls.

According to Hunter, a woman with Odom told staff he had used cocaine two days earlier and had taken packets of sex-enhancement pills — she said “probably 12” despite the packet warning, “Don’t take more than one every 24 hours.” Odom was left comatose after the incident, later suffering six heart attacks and 12 strokes before he struggled to regain the ability to walk and talk.

Khloé Kardashian’s account and the aftermath

The documentary follows Odom’s transfer from Nevada to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Khloé says she “never left the hospital” and was there “for about four months with him every single day.” When Odom was discharged in 2016, she says she rented a nearby house and hired staff to care for him.

Khloé describes a painful discovery after his release: she smelled crack and found Odom smoking in the bedroom. “I just punched him in the face,” she says, then told him, “By Monday, you need out of this house. I’m done, I’m not paying for a thing, and I never want to speak to you again.” Odom later told her he didn’t remember what had happened, saying, “I’m not dismissing that.”

Family tensions and public spin

Odom’s children Destiny and Lamar “LJ” Odom Jr. reflect on feeling excluded from their father’s life, including not attending his 2009 wedding to Kardashian. LJ says he “never even met” Khloé, and Destiny says she declined the wedding because she “didn’t want to be a show pony.” The family also accused Kardashian of restricting visitors at Odom’s hospital bedside and asking some to sign NDAs; Kardashian says she had to place “filters on who” could enter after drug dealers tried to get into the room.

The Love Ranch owner Dennis Hof used the incident for publicity and sold footage and receipts. Hof died in 2018 at 72.

Why it matters now

The documentary reframes a high-profile health crisis through multiple perspectives: the medical emergency itself, the media and publicity that followed, and the long emotional fallout within Odom’s family. For viewers, it raises questions about care, privacy and how public narratives are shaped around a person in crisis.

What to expect

Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom is streaming on Netflix now. The film doesn’t offer tidy resolutions — Odom, his family and those involved are shown still navigating trust and recovery years after the overdose.