Former NBA player and reality TV star Lamar Odom is on a ventilator after being found unconscious Tuesday in a Nevada brothel, sources close to Odom say.
He suffered brain damage and had at least one stroke, sources told E!, and he was found with multiple drugs in his system. Odom, 35, is in a Las Vegas hospital, with estranged wife Khloe Kardashian by his side, Rev. Jesse Jackson said. On Wednesday, Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly said investigators have determined that Odom used cocaine on Saturday, the day he arrived at Dennis Hof's Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada. The sheriff's office also released audio of a 911 call from a woman who found Odom in his room; the woman says "there's blood coming out of his nose" and "white stuff coming out of his mouth." She also told the operator "he's not breathing."
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