Not everyone can remain friends with their ex, and that might just be the unfortunate case or the recently divorced Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom. Rumors ran rampant about the basketball player allegedly ambushing the reality star outside of SoulCycle on Wednesday morning (Aug. 12) in Beverly Hills, but the former Laker quickly shut down the allegations.
TMZ initially broke the story after an eyewitness allegedly saw Odom jumping out of a car to approach the youngest Kardashian sister. The witness claimed Odom unleashed a verbal attack on her, all while demanding she stay to talk to him. After allegedly screaming for help, Kardashian escaped the situation by running to her car. Odom fired back at TMZ for releasing "degrading" information about him and cleared up how they met up in the first place.
"You know I know Khloé," said Odom to a cameraman. "You know I know her. So how would you think I ended up there? So was there an address or a place given, or I just guessed right? Did I just guess right, where this girl may be, that I know?"
The 35-year-old hinted Kardashian initiated the meeting between them and knew he would be arriving to meet her. He went on to deny the allegations about verbally attacking her, stalking her and physically abusing her. Throughout his plea, Odom seemed hurt more than anything that allegations like this had even surfaced.
"Nobody got followed, nobody got hassled, nobody got harassed, nobody got grabbed on, none of that. I don't believe in following people around. I don't Twitter. I don't Instagram. Me and that girl fell in love. That's our business." He went on to defend his character and name. "Do not disrespect my space, do not disrespect my character, because that's what y'all been doing. And from day one, even if half the things were true, even if half of them were true, people know who I am and y'all have discredited me, beat me down, took my confidence, took everything away from me."
Speculations on the alleged altercation may stem from Kardashian's rumored relationship with Houston Rockets' shooting guard James Harden. Odom allegedly doesn't approve of their relationship. The 31-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has been romantically linked to the 25-year-old basketball player this past month after being spotted celebrating the Fourth of July in Vegas and getting extra friendly at Kylie Jenner's 18th birthday party in West Hollywood at Bootsy Bellows nightclub this past Sunday.
Odom and Kardashian were married for four years until she filed for divorce in 2013. The two have been in limbo over finalizing the divorce process, until mid-July when the papers were finally signed.
