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By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Lamar Odom’s ex Liza Morales’ stint on reality television might have been short-lived since TLC made the decision to pull the plug on the series (Starter Wives: Confidential) thanks to low ratings, but that hasn’t managed to silence the former reality star and ex fiancée to the basketball star. Liza made headlines when she confessed that Lamar was and still is the only man that she has ever slept with. Of course Khloe Kardashian wasn’t too thrilled that Liza had made her way to reality television, and took to her Twitter account to throw some shade when it was confirmed that she would be on Starter Wives: Confidential. Regardless, Liza said she’s still going to share her story and go public with her truth. She has recently written an open letter on her situation with Lamar and how hard it was to watch him leave her to marry Khloe Kardashian.

In the letter which she shares with the Daily Beast, Liza writes:

“I don’t think I’ll forget the tight knot I felt in the pit of my stomach the morning I received the text message with three simple words on the screen. It read “I’m getting married” and it was from the man I’d spent more than 10 years of my life with. Years that included us getting engaged in 2000 and becoming parents to one daughter and two sons. Yet not long after our separation Lamar Odom was getting married to Khloe Kardashian, a woman he’d met four weeks before. How could the man who’d constantly given me reason after reason for why we couldn’t get married just yet now be ready to tie the knot so quickly? There aren’t words to explain how I felt that day.

“I met Lamar in the 9th grade in Queens, New York, and was completely taken in by his wit, charm, and that devastating smile he so easily flashed at anyone he met. We dated from the 11th grade on and shared a tight bond due to a lot of things, including the fact that we both were products of broken homes.

“Though my parents weren’t together, I did have a very close relationship with my father, whom I loved dearly and consider my hero. He worked very hard to make sure I could attend Catholic school and have everything I needed. But when I started dating Lamar that all changed. My father is Puerto Rican and he didn’t approve of me dating a black man. His small mind and small thinking ended the relationship with my dad. I wanted a life with Lamar and needed my family to support that. The next 10 years would be an amazing journey filled with many ups and down but Lamar and I were creating the family we’d both always dreamed of. Or so I thought.”

Liza also says that after the breakup with Lamar, both wanted things to be cordial; however, his relationship with Khloe would make that impossible:

“We kept things cordial for the children’s sake after the breakup, but that changed when he married Khloe. Now we only communicate through third parties and lawyers, which I regret deeply since it is exactly what we each experienced as children and said we wouldn’t do to our kids.

“I’ve only met Khloe once, at my request since she is my children’s stepmother and I felt it was important to get a sense of her and what she’s like around my children. It was a very pleasant meeting, she gave me a hug so I’m happy it happened.”

Liza also goes on to say she wanted to do the reality show as a way to show her daughter that she too can get up after life’s challenges and overcome them like her mother has done. Although she says she understands that Lamar wasn’t happy with her doing the show, it was a form of therapy to help her cope.

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By: Taren Vaughan

Lamar Odom has been making things happen for him both on and off the court as he continues his career in the NBA and is enjoying married life with reality TV star Khloe Kardashian. Although the couple has been rumored to be going through some tough times with each other, supposedly being on the verge of splitting, Khloe and Lamar said that things could never be better between them. As the two made the claims that their marriage was not on the rocks, the gossip has picked back up again, some suggesting that Lamar is not being faithful to Khloe, Khloe’s reality TV career also being said to be taking a toll on their marriage. Aside from the rumors going around about him cheating on his wife and his marriage allegedly coming to an end, Lamar Odom is dealing with other things involving his family, being locked in a custody battle with his ex-girlfriend Liza Morales. And the battle has people thinking that Lamar is not that great of a father, an allegation that his ex girlfriend was said to be going to expose on TV. The NBA star was set to meet Morales in court this past Friday for a custody hearing. However, Lamar was a no show for the hearing, an injury to his back preventing him from going:

Here’s the rundown:

La Clipper Lamar Odom failed to turn up in a New York courtroom Friday for a custody hearing with ex-girlfriend Liza Morales because of a back injury. Odom, the husband of reality-TV star and “The X Factor USA” co-host Khloe Kardashian, could not make it to the hearing after he injured his tailbone during a game and was advised not to travel. Instead, he called into the hearing via phone. Odom has taken Morales to court to set a “parental access schedule” over their children, 12-year-old daughter Destiny and 9-year-old Lamar Jr. The athlete reportedly wanted to adjust his custody deal with Morales so he could have the children appear on his E! reality spinoff show with Kardashian, “Khloe and Lamar.” A source tells us that “Odom filed a petition to establish time sharing of the kids and agree on finances and child support.” Odom and Morales were never married. He married Kardashian in 2009 after they dating her for a month. Howard Michael Rudolph, Odom’s attorney, told us that “Lamar loves his children and was in court to resolve the details of time sharing and finances.”