Lamar Odom out of coma, says ‘Hey, baby’ to Khloé
Lamar Odom woke from his coma Friday, saying “Hey, baby” to his estranged wife, Khloé Kardashian, and even giving his doctors a thumbs-up.
“Lamar is conscious and was able to say hi to Khloé, but his condition remains guarded,” a source close to the family told The Post.
The former Lakers star also was taken off a ventilator and was breathing on his own in his bed at the Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, a source told E!
Friday’s promising news followed three days of Odom lying unresponsive in the hospital’s intensive care unit — the aftermath of his overdose at a Nevada brothel.
Odom, 35, had been on life support since being rushed from the brothel to the hospital Tuesday afternoon, with insiders warning that multiple drug-induced strokes could leave him with extensive brain damage.
Khloé, 31, has been at his bedside since Tuesday night, with her Kardashian kin circling in and out since Wednesday.
Odom’s college basketball coach Jim Harrick described a tender bedside moment between the couple.
“She reached down and said, ‘You know I love you,’ and he kind of nodded,” Harrick told USA Today.
“Three or four days after being scared to death and fearing the worst, that is a little hope, a little progress,” Harrick said.
At least two ex-girlfriends have also visited the hospital, adding to the drama.
“Many friends have visited the hospital, and we’ve stayed together praying for him,” reputed ex-mistress Sandy Schultz told Radar Online.
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Liza Morales, his high school sweetheart and the mother of his two kids, visited with their children, Destiny, 17, and Lamar Jr., 13.
Asked from his hospital bed Friday whether he wanted to see his children, the newly conscious Odom was able to indicate “yes,” sources told the “Entertainment Tonight” website.
Also Friday, more sordid details emerged from Odom’s three-day drug-and-sex binge at the notorious Love Ranch brothel.
Owner Dennis Hof revealed that the Queens native had been eager to meet one of his brothel’s most infamous prostitutes, Madison Montag, a curvy 22-year-old transsexual porn star who bears a stunning resemblance to Kim Kardashian.
On arriving at the cathouse Sunday — and paying Hof $75,000 with a credit card for his stay — Odom was given a “lineup” of eight prostitutes from whom to choose.
One of them was Montag, whom Hof calls the first transgender prostitute licensed by the state of Nevada.
Odom had already met Montag online, becoming pals with her on Instagram, Hof said in an interview with hosts Todd Shapiro and Jay Brady on Sirius XM 168’s “Todd Shapiro Show.”
“In the car on the way out there [from Vegas], he talked about the fact that he had met Madison Montag, our transsexual prostitute, online . . . and he wanted to meet her,” Hof said.
Odom ultimately did not take that walk on the wild side with the 5-foot-1, 100-pound Kim look-alike, who, according to a Love Ranch press release from August, has “fully working male genitalia,” in addition to 32DD breasts.
Instead, he employed Ryder Cherry and Monica Monroe, the two bottle blondes who would find him Tuesday afternoon, passed out and frothing at the mouth in his VIP suite.
For customers, Montag is “the best of both worlds,” Hof had noted in the release, which announced that she had been hired.
“Her brunette hair and big brown eyes also bear a more than casual resemblance to Kim Kardashian,” Hof boasted.
More details emerged Friday on Odom’s drug use during his stay. Odom was injecting “speedballs” — potent combinations of heroin or methadone mixed with liquid cocaine, a Love Ranch source told the Daily Mail.
Odom had sent his two hookers out of the room while he shot up, and shouted, “Get the hell out!” when one accidentally came back in and saw him injecting himself, the Mail source said.
That was 6 a.m. Tuesday. Nine hours later, the women returned to the room and found him passed out and foaming at the mouth.
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