Lamar Odom 'just having a good time partying' before he was found unconscious

Khloe Kardashian's ex-husband and two-time NBA champion Lamar Odom has been found unconscious at a brothel in the US state of Nevada.

Police say he suffered a "medical emergency" at the Love Ranch in Crystal outside Las Vegas.

Radio 1 Newsbeat has been speaking to the owner of the ranch.

Dennis Hof says that his staff picked up Lamar from his home in Vegas in "an unmarked vehicle" before taking him to the brothel.

"Lamar came in on Saturday and started partying at the ranch with a couple of girls, Ryder Cherry and Monica Monroe, and he was just having a good time partying.

"And yesterday morning he went to sleep around 6 o'clock, and they went to check on him at 3.30pm in the afternoon, and found out that he was unconscious."

Reporters gather outside of Sunrise Hospital Medical Center, where Lamar Odom is being treated

Dennis said the women "are still traumatised" but when they realised something was wrong they immediately called the emergency services, who gave instructions on how to help the star.

Too tall for the helicopter

"The ambulance took him off and got him to the hospital where they immediately said 'he might not make it, we need to air-flight him to Las Vegas', except he couldn't fit in the helicopter because he was too big." The ex basketball star is 6' 10"

"They took him off in the ambulance and they wouldn't allow anybody to go with him," Dennis explained.

"We don't think he was doing any drugs, although you never can tell, but he was doing herbal supplements, herbal Viagra if you will, and he was doing a lot of it."

Dennis wouldn't confirm or deny whether Lamar was a regular at his ranch, but did say that before he was taken to hospital, he seemed "happy".

He was "having a great time" but apparently "did get a little upset on Sunday".

He got a call from somebody and he was on the Kardashians TV show and they were talking about him.

"That seemed to upset him, but besides that everything seemed fine."

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