Lamar Odom used cocaine and sexual enhancement drugs, 911 caller says

Lamar Odom is fighting for his life in a hospital on Wednesday after he was found unconscious in a Las Vegas area brothel.

Police were called to the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, after the 35-year-old was found face down and unresponsive on Tuesday afternoon. Emergency services stabilised Odom at the Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump then drove him to the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Centre because the 6 foot 10 inch former NBA star is too tall to be airlifted.

Nye County Sheriff Sharon Werley addressed reporters during a news conference on Wednesday that 911 dispatchers received a call from terrified staff members at the brothel who reported Odom's drug use. Richard Hunter, brothel's media director, said that Odom used cocaine on Saturday and bought tablets of Reload 72-hour Strong, an over-the-counter sexual enhancement drug, sold at the brothel. Odom reportedly consumed 10 tablets over the course of three days.

Dispatchers instructed the staffers to turn Odom on his side after an employee reported "blood coming out of his nose" and "white stuff coming out of his mouth.”

Sheriff Werley said that her department obtained Odom's blood for drug testing through a search warrant. The results may take several weeks to get back, she said.

Khloe Kardashian, Odom's ex-wife, along with her sister Kim and her mother Kris Jenner have traveled to the hospital where Odom is being treated. The couple's divorce has not yet finalised and Kardashian is in charge of making medical decisions while Odom is on life support, CNN reports.

An Excel Sports Management spokesperson told The Independent that Odom "is a long-time member of the Excel family, and we are keeping him in our thoughts and prayers. We are staying close to the situation but have no additional information or comment at this time.”

Odom was one of the most dominant high-school basketball players to emerge from Queens, New York. He played 14 seasons in the NBA, winning two championships with the Lakers for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. He then received the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2010-11. Odom then bounced around to several teams, the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers, where he was drafted him in 1999. He then signed a two year contract with the New York Knicks in 2014, but was cut from the team several months later.

Odom married Kardashian in 2009, with a ceremony that was televised on the E! cable network. The pair filed for divorce just four years later. However, due to a backlog in Los Angeles courts, the divorce has not yet been finalised.

Kardashian told E! Online in August that she would always love Odom and that if he wasn't battling drug abuse and cheating scandals, the two would still be married.

“I will never, ever not love Lamar. I was so obsessed with him in a healthy way. He was my husband, and I still wish he was, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that."