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"Here's to Lamar Odom on being the first guy in history to
have coke and hookers save his marriage," Rock tweeted to his
3.5 million Twitter followers, adding "Stay strong Lamar."
The tweet came in the week that Odom, 35, and his estranged wife
Khloe Kardashian, 31, called off their divorce as the former
basketball star recovers from collapsing into a coma at a Nevada
brothel after reportedly using cocaine.
Rock, 50, was named this week as host of the 2016 Academy Awards
ceremony in February. It will be his second stint at the helm of
the movie industry's biggest night after a 2005 performance that
made headlines for his barbed comments about race and politics..
"Not sure if I should consider this inappropriate or hail you as
a God damn genius," replied one man, Jeff Rothman. "HAHAHA ! I
love it..!!! That's the Chris Rock we know..Cheers!!" tweeted
Fernando Zapata.
Others took Rock to task, with Posh saying "shame on u!!!," and
Chanti tweeting "how insensitive."
Odom, a former National Basketball Association star player, is
said to be making progress but faces a long period of
rehabilitation with concerns over his kidneys and other organs,
celebrity media have reported. TMZ.com said he underwent two
emergency surgeries in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Odom's and Kardashian's 2009 courtship and marriage were
featured in the reality shows "Keeping Up With the Kardashians"
and "Khloe and Lamar." The couple split up in 2013 amid rumors
of cheating and drug abuse by Odom but divorce papers signed in
July were never finalized and were withdrawn earlier this week.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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