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Master P is not biting his tongue regarding his friend Lamar Odom's coma and what he sees as fake love being shown by Kobe Bryant and the Kardashian family.
"I was like a mentor to [Lamar] and it's just sad to see what's going on," P told TMZ Sports. "The truth of the matter is, it's so many phony and fake people out here now. It goes to show when something happens to you. Everybody's his friend, everybody loves him. But was that true? I don't think so"
"It's like my wife and her lawyer sitting by my bedside is something happens to me. It ain't real," he continued. "I'm talking about Kobe. All this man wanted to do was play basketball. Kobe was his friend. Kobe like, owns the [L.A. Lakers]. He could have got the man back on the team. That's all he wanted. And even in that situation I think he was just looking for love. Where the people at he showed love to? 'Cause he had a big heart...it's phony man I come from the streets. If you my friend why you didn't get him into training camp? I think he could have been at least the eighth man on the Lakers roster this year."
P goes on to say that Odom's former wife, Khloe Kardashian, and her family as well as Kobe should have been there for Lamar long before this present situation.
He believes Odom didn't know what he was getting into when he married into the Kardashian family and traces some of his friend's problems back to the reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
The business mogul then issued a warning to Khloe's current boyfriend James Harden.
"This may be an example to all the other NBA players out there," P said. "Maybe to James Harden. Maybe to whoever."
**UPDATE** October 16th
Kobe Bryant has responded to Master P's accusation that he only visited a comatose Lamar Odom for publicity.
Bryant took to his Twitter account on Thursday, October 15th, and questioned what may have led P to come to such a conclusion.
On Friday P softened his stance just a bit in a post on his Facebook page and even admitted he stopped dealing with Lamar because he couldn't help him.
MASTER P SAYS THE TRUTH HURTS
Master P speaks truth..he says, "If you're real with someone, you keep it real through the good and bad times. I understand first hand from dealing with my own brother that was living recklessly, I had to show him tough love but I'd never cut him off because we're blood. I'm not pointing the
finger at anyone, Lamar's unfortunate situation is a result of his own decisions and actions. I can relate to D.L. Hugley's statement on dealing with family members with addictions, it's draining. I'm not a phony, I can admit that I stopped dealing with Lamar years ago for those same reasons.
Even though I've known Lamar for over 15 years, it wasn't like we were the best of friends. I tried to mentor him and give him advice but he is a grown man and made his own decisions. You can't help anyone that don't want any help and I get that, that 's life. So that's why I stopped dealing with Lamar,
it's not like we're blood related where I would have to put up with his reckless behavior.
I'm sure Lamar has many people in his life such as family members, friends, colleagues, teammates, significant others who have stopped dealing with him but I'm just not afraid to openly admit it, due to his unfortunate medical situation. I can also admit that me and my family are far from perfect, we have situations we're dealing with. My prayers are going out to Lamar and his family. I pray that he comes out of this, he may have a rocky past but overall he's a good brother.
And the only reason I'm not running to the hospital to visit him, I'm not looking for publicity, I don't need it. Only when I was asked, I stated my opinion on what I knew about this man from the times I was around him. Lamar complained about how everybody turned their backs on him, even his nba buddies. But then people blew
my opinion out of proportion.
I understand that Kobe is one of the greatest basketball players in the world and people are going to side with him. I have nothing against Kobe or the Lakers. I have nothing to hide and I'm willing to speak face to face with anybody, with Kobe or Kardashians about the conversations that Lamar and I have had concerning him trying to get his life back together and getting back into the league. I'm not about entertaining no mess and I'm only speaking on this because I knew this brother. I hope that if ever I was in a similar situation where I couldn't speak for
myself, that somebody would keep it 100 for me.
The truth hurts, even in Hollywood. My condolences to the people that really love him. And I am not trying to question the support of others that are truly grieving, this is a critical, life and death situation. This is only my opinion, it's just sad that last month no one had anything positive to say about Lamar.. and that's what I meant by being phony.
Also check out D.L. Hughley's take on the situation and how difficult it is to deal with someone battling addiction in the video below.
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