Odom, 35, was found unconscious in a room at Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch South in Pahrump, Nevada, on Tuesday afternoon. TMZ reports that he is “fighting for his life.” The website also states that Odom had a “mucus-type liquid coming out of his nose and mouth.”
“We rolled (him) over on his side and some awful looking stuff came out of him,” Hof told Brian Ping, evening news anchor for CBS Radio in Los Angeles.
Hof said Odom was taking a Viagra-like herbal supplement, but denied drugs were involved.
Odom was first taken from the Love Ranch to Desert View Hospital in Pahrump. A hospital spokesperson confirmed Odom had been a patient there, but could not provide details due to patient privacy.
NBC News reports Odom was to be airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas, but the 6’10” former basketball player was too big for the helicopter. Instead, he was taken by ground to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, about 60 miles away.
However, Nye County Sherriff Sharon Wehrly told reportes that Lamar Odom had been using cocaine on Saturday, employees at the Nevada brothel where he was found unresponsive four days. Investigators have obtained a blood sample from Odom, which will be submitted for testing to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police laboratory.
“At this point, the case is ongoing,” Wehrly said.
CNN is reporting that Reality television star Khloe Kardashian will make medical decisions for the former NBA star, a source close to Kardashian said Wednesday.
The couple’s divorce has not been finalized, the source told CNN.
Lamar Odom’s father and two children are also by his bedside at the hospital, and Rev. Jesse Jackson
visited the former NBA star and reality TV personality at a Las Vegas hospital Wednesday morning. He says Odom was unresponsive Tuesday but “has some responsiveness now.”
Jackson added: “Apparently from what the doctor said, he was much better off today than yesterday.”
Jackson was in town for Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. He stopped and spoke to the media as he was leaving the hospital Wednesday.
Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant visited him last night and that Lamar Odom’s loved ones are “just holding hands and hoping he can bounce back.”