Inside Lamar Odom’s Dating History: Khloe Kardashian, Taraji P. Henson and More
30.06.2022 - 06:55
/ usmagazine.com
Highs and lows. Former basketball player Lamar Odom’s passionate romances are integral to his life story, from his whirlwind marriage to Khloé Kardashian to his in-case-you-missed-it moment with Taraji P. Henson.
Odom, who was born in Queens, New York, first dated one of his teenage sweethearts, Liza Morales, for over 10 years. The pair’s daughter, Destiny, was born in 1998 while their son, Lamar Jr., in 2002. They became engaged in 2000, but never married.
In 2006, their relationship fell apart after their infant son, Jayden, passed away at 6 months old to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Morales told Page Six in March 2021 that their infant son’s death was the straw that broke the camel’s back in their relationship as Odom descended into drug use and partying as a way of grieving. “I realized I lost Lamar when our son Jayden passed away,” she told the outlet. “We grieved so differently.”
The exes stayed relatively friendly after going their separate ways — until July 2021 when the Basketball Wives alum sued the former Los Angeles Lakers player, claiming he allegedly stopped honoring a 2015 child support agreement for their two kids. Six months later, Morales announced that she was writing a memoir, Cutting Trauma Ties, telling Page Six how she and her family “dealt with [Odom’s] addiction privately for years.”
Following his 10-year relationship with Morales, Odom moved on to a brief romance with Henson in 2009. Speaking with TV One’s Uncensored in 2019, the former NBA player said he “learned a lot” from the Empire star and called it the “most significant relationship” he had “with a Black woman.”
He added: “She gave me inspiration. A Black woman, working like that, that’s just as good at her craft that I am in my