Doctors Fear Brain Damage After Lamar Odom Fails to Recognize Friends, Family

Nearly a month after Lamar Odom was discovered unconscious in a legal Las Vegas brothel, he is still struggling with communication and mobility, friends and family told TMZ. Suggested Reading The Root 100 – 2024’s Most Influential African Americans Post #3 6-18-2025 Post #2 6-18-2025 Video will return here when scrolled back into view Stefon…

Nearly a month after Lamar Odom was discovered unconscious in a legal Las Vegas brothel, he is still struggling with communication and mobility, friends and family told TMZ.

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Sources told the entertainment-news site that he has made little progress in recent weeks and is only able "to speak a word here and there, and at times he seems 'empty.' "

Doctors fear that he may have suffered "significant brain damage" because "he cannot recognize longtime friends and even family members when they come to visit," the report says.

He is being treated atย Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center, where he was transported last month after he was discovered unconscious in a legal Nevada brothel with cocaine and other substances reportedly in his system.

Read more at TMZ.

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