Getting concerned — once more? Lamar Odom spoke out after Tristan Thompson confirmed he fathered a baby with one other lady, and it’s protected to say Khloé Kardashian’s ex-husband is on her aspect.
“I actually want nothing however the very best for her and I’m hoping we will reconnect and speak in the future as pals,” a remark from the 42-year-old former Los Angeles Lakers star’s official Fb web page on a information story about Thompson, 30, reads. “She is an effective particular person and deserves the world.”
Thompson was named in a lawsuit filed by Maralee Nichols, who claimed they conceived her child boy in March 2021, through the summer time. Odom’s comment comes hours after the Sacramento Kings middle introduced the outcomes of his paternity take a look at have been in.
“I fathered a baby with Maralee Nichols. I take full accountability for my actions. Now that paternity has been established I stay up for amicably elevating our son,” Thompson wrote on Monday, January 3, through Instagram Tales.
He went on to apologize to Kardashian, 37, with whom he shares 3-year-old daughter True. Thompson was nonetheless seeing the Maintaining Up With the Kardashians alum when he had an affair with Nichols. (The previous couple referred to as it quits for good in June after relationship on and off since 2016.)
“Khloé, you don’t deserve this. You don’t deserve the heartache and humiliation I’ve triggered you. You don’t deserve the way in which I’ve handled you over time,” Thompson wrote. “My actions actually haven’t lined up with the way in which I view you. I’ve the utmost respect and love for you. No matter what you might suppose. Once more, I’m so extremely sorry.”
In line with Nichols, Thompson advised her that “he was single and coparenting” once they met at a celebration at his Encino, California, dwelling in 2020.
“I’d by no means have gotten concerned with Tristan if I assumed he was in a relationship,” she stated in a December 2021 assertion, claiming he stated he was “not having a sexual relationship with anybody else.”
Kardashian, for her half, has but to react to Thompson’s paternity take a look at outcomes. A supply beforehand advised Us Weekly that he knowledgeable her of the affair earlier than the information went public final month.
Previous to her relationship with Thompson, the Good American cofounder was married to Odom. Whereas the pair cut up in 2013 after 4 years of marriage, their divorce wasn’t finalized till 2016 as Kardashian quickly withdrew her petition to take care of the ex-athlete following his 2015 overdose.
There’s been no love misplaced between Kardashian’s exes previously. In July 2021, Thompson introduced up Odom’s previous with substance abuse after the Khloé and Lamar alum left a flirty touch upon the Revenge Physique host’s Instagram.
“@lamarodom God introduced you again the primary time. Play if you’d like, totally different outcomes,” he wrote.
After sharing a meme concerning the state of affairs, Odom spoke out on “The Megan Pormer Present,” noting, “He don’t actually know me, so that would have actually turned ugly. … He’s a Black man [and] he’s within the NBA, so we’re fraternity brothers on the finish of the day. I’ll simply depart it there.”
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