Lamar Odom played on the USA basketball team at the 2004 Olympics (Picture: FilmMagic)

Basketball star Lamar Odom has admitted to cheating a drugs test to get onto the USA national basketball team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

In an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, Darkness To Light, the LA Lakers star reveals he became anxious after qualifying for the team when he was told he would have to pass an obligatory drugs test to actually play in Greece.

‘The joy of being named to the twelve-man roster quickly turned to anxiety when Olympic officials informed me that I would have to pass a drug test before officially joining the team,’ he writes.

The 39-year-old – who was previously married to Khloe Kardashian – knew he wouldn’t pass the test as he was using drugs at the time.




‘There was absolutely no way I was going to pass. I’d been smoking weed every day that summer. Panic set in,’ he continued.

He began to research the myriad ways he could get away with scamming the medical, settling on a fake penis through which he could funnel someone else’s urine.

‘After an exhaustive search we ordered a giant, rubber, black c**k to arrive the next day,’ reads the book.

Lamar and Khloe were married for seven years (Picture: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)

Who’s wee did he use? His sober trainer’s, who he asked to ‘urinate into the reservoir of the phallus, which was hidden in the balls.’

Lovely.

‘I unzipped my pants and carefully slid the fake penis through the zipper hole,’ he said. ‘To get the pee to come out of the tip, I had to squeeze the shaft repeatedly.’

Though the athlete was ‘paranoid’ the tactic would fail, the officiator who visited Odom’s house to carry out the test had no idea he was using a fake penis and subsequently approved his acceptance into the Olympic team.

In 2015 Odom was hospitalised after a drugs overdose and suffered 12 strokes and 6 heart attacks while in a coma for three days, leaving doctors ‘amazed’ he is still alive.

His struggle with drug addiction and multiple bouts of cheating led to his divorce from Khloe Kardashian in 2016, a time he writes he is ‘shocked and embarrassed’ about.

Of his cheating, Odom told People.com he wishes he could have ‘been more of a man’, admitting: ‘It still bothers me to this day. But regret is something we have to learn to live with.’

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