Lamar Odom Reveals He Was ‘Out All Night Partying With My Man’ When His Infant Son Died

Lamar Odom is opening up about the night that his son Jayden died in June 2006 when he was 6 months old from sudden infant death syndrome.

In the Netflix documentary Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom (out Tuesday, March 31), the former professional basketball player, 46, revealed he was “out all night partying with my man” on “the night he passed away.”

The father of three — who shares Jayden, daughter Destiny, now 27, and Lamar Jr., now 23, with ex Liza Morales — documented the shocking loss in the new documentary, which explores his rise to NBA fame and the challenges he faced along the way.

“I didn’t really cry too much when he passed away,” the former Los Angeles Lakers player said, adding that when he saw Jayden after his death, “the baby just looked like he’s asleep” with “no scars, no hemorrhages, no nothing.”

“I remember when me and my cousin Sherrod went to go identify his body the next day,” Odom recalled. “[He] just looked asleep.”

Morales also looked back on the tragedy, remembering how she went to check on Jayden after realizing he had slept in longer than usual.

“I just remember turning him over, and his lips were blue,” she said in the documentary. “I just saw the fireman just grab him up like a football and just ran to the ambulance.”

Doctors tried everything they could to revive the young baby, but ultimately they were unable to save him.

When Odom got to the hospital, “They showed him where to go, the room I was in,” Morales recalled. “I mean, he was just so cold, and I just knew, like, it was just a shell.”

Odom — who was married to Khloé Kardashian from 2009 to 2016 following his split from Morales — previously opened up about his son’s death while competing on Celebrity Big Brother in February 2022.

“Even [when my son was] six months old I was saying that we had a really great relationship because whenever I would come into the room, his eyes would just follow me wherever I went until I picked him up,” he said at the time, adding that Jayden was a “special” baby.

Odom added that Jayden’s death is “something I don’t think I’d ever get over.”

“But him coming to me in a dream lets me know that he’s not too far away,” he continued. “And I know I’ll see him in an afterlife.”