Lamar Odom ‘Heard Voices’ After Taking Same Pink Cocaine Drug Found in Liam Payne’s System

Lamar Odom opened up about his experience with pink cocaine, the same combination of drugs found in Liam Payne’s system, and speculated it might have played a role in the singer’s fatal fall.

“I’ve heard voices before,” Lamar, 44, told TMZ on Monday, October 21.

Although it’s called pink cocaine, the drug doesn’t actually contain cocaine. Instead, it is a powdered mix of substances, usually including ecstasy, ketamine, caffeine, and a psychedelic called 2-CB, according to the National Capital Poison Center. The drug reportedly gets its color from the addition of colored dye and sometimes has a strawberry flavor.

The drug was one of multiple substances found in the One Direction alum’s partial autopsy at the time of his passing.

The retired NBA player, who has been open about his substance abuse problems following his October 2015 overdose in a Las Vegas brothel, said the drug may have played a role in Liam’s death by possibly making him hallucinate.

“If he was in a hallucination state, then, who knows what could happen … it really drives you up a wall,” he told the outlet, adding that he has had a sense of “paranoia” when using the substance.

“I mean if you hear voices, then you know, it’s hard to escape those voices,” he continued. “So God forbid, if those voices told him to do something that led to his fate, that would be a shame.”

Liam died on October 16 at 31 years old after falling off the third-floor balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to an audio recording of the 911 call obtained via local media by Telemundo, a hotel staff member requested police “urgently” and said a guest “overindulged on drugs and alcohol.”

“The guest is in a room that has a balcony and, well, we are a little afraid that he might do something life-threatening,” the caller, who did not identify the guest as Liam, said. Liam was dead by the time authorities arrived on the scene. Buenos Aires police later confirmed that Liam’s fall resulted in “extremely serious injuries” and medics confirmed his death on the spot.

“There was no possibility of resuscitating him,” the authorities said. “He had extremely severe injuries that were incompatible with life due to the fall.”

One day after Liam’s death, local authorities confirmed that he “jumped from the balcony of his room” before his death, according to the Associated Press.

Although it’s unclear if Liam’s death was intentional, In Touch learned on October 22 that the high purity drugs in his system may have had a different effect on him than drugs he previously used in other countries.

Forensic toxicologist Fernando Cardini reiterated this claim by explaining that being in a different country could have triggered the “substance-induced,” “semi-conscious” or “unconscious” state that led Liam to fall three stories at the hotel.

Cardini told Argentine TV channel Todo Noticias’ that the musician had “a very complicated mix of chemical substances,” and suggested that when someone uses drugs in a foreign country, “perhaps the concentration of the drug was different from what he was used to.”