Lamar Odom’s children have finally addressed why they chose not to attend their father’s wedding to Khloe Kardashian.
Odom shares his two children, 27-year-old Destiney and 23-year-old Lamar “LJ” Odom Jr. with his former partner Liza Morales, whom he dated for 10 years after starting their relationship in 1996.
They also welcomed their third child, son Jayden Odam, but he passed away in his sleep when he was just 6-month-old on June 18, 2006. The cause of his death was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
In the recently released Netflix documentary Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, Destiney and LJ opened up about the challenges their dad faced.
Odom stated that his inner circle did not support his decision to marry Khloe but he went against everyone’s will and tied the knot with her on September 27, 2009.
Reflecting on his kids’ absence from his wedding to the Good America co-founder, the former basketball power forward revealed, “My babies’ mother didn’t let them come to my wedding.”
In his own confessional, LJ stated that he was not informed about his dad’s wedding, stating that he “never ever met.”
The reason why Destiney made it to the wedding was because she “didn’t want to be a show pony” during the ceremony. Also, she did not want to be recorded to end up on Kardashian’s reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
Morales also articulated her thoughts about her ex-partner’s wedding. She said, “If you want to get married in front of 100 people and all these cameras, that’s totally cool. It’s on you. Of course when you decide to get married to somebody in 30 days, it’s going to hurt.”
“Then on top of that, let me just stick it to you a little bit more. It’s going to be on television,” she noted.
It is pertinent to mention that Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian’s wedding ended in December 2016 after four years.
