recounted by Patrick H. Moore
A lot of crime news is very bad news, but occasionally we get a little light-hearted balderdash that makes us chuckle, roll our eyes and — in some cases — wish we had enough money and bad sense to engage in such ridiculous conduct ourselves. The ongoing Lamar Odom crack cocaine saga is a case in point.
Free Britney at The Hollywood Gossip writes:
Lamar Odom’s mistress “roommate” Polina Polonsky says the athlete definitely fashioned crack pipes at her place during the six weeks they lived together.
Recent photos of Odom purchasing Chore Boy scrubbing pads led us to believe he wasn’t cleaning pots and pans, but making homemade crack pipes.
Now Polina Polonsky has basically confirmed as much. Polina, as people who have followed Lamar’s saga know, hooked up with Odom in June and July after meeting him at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. He essentially moved into her apartment for six weeks after that, right around when reports of his estrangement from wife Khloe Kardashian began surfacing.
Polina Polonsky, who is — of all things — apparently an attorney, claims that Odom was doing crack during the time he was living at her apartment. Polonsky has allegedly stated that Chore Boy scrubbing pads were always laying around the apartment when the NBA star was there, and not for the products’ designed use, which presumably is to scrub pots and pans.
Polansky states that she saw Odom using the Chore Boy pads on numerous occasions to fashion homemade crack pipes, and that the place was “littered” with copper pad scraps. Polonsky also reportedly claims that Odom’s crack problem has gotten worse since Khloe confronted her (Polansky) and he peaced out, but that he was certainly on drugs during the six weeks that he lived at her apartment.
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This would appear to be “another nail in the coffin” for Odom, who many have claimed could have been a truly great NBA star if he’d only had the desire and discipline. In many ways, Lamar appears to be the anti-Kobe. Whereas it’s certainly easy to imagine Kobe hooking up with a strange woman, I strongly suspect that during the assignation, his mind would not be on crack cocaine but rather certain other cracks and crevices.
Meanwhile, Odom’s whereabout are apparently unknown. Not only does he refuse to seek help — even though every pricey rehab center in town is dying to help him — but he even recently claimed that he does not even have a drug problem. According to the experts in the field, this is known as denial and it does not bode well for recovery.