Lamar Odom has been arrested and charged for driving under the influence (DUI) in Las Vegas

Lamar, who was previously married to reality star Khloe Kardashian, is accused of driving more than 41 miles per hour over the speed limit and making an improper lane change/or having a failure to maintain his lane.

The former Los Angeles Lakers star - who was previously arrested for DUI in 2013 - has been open about his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and almost lost his life after overdosing on cocaine, alcohol and cannabis at a Las Vegas brothel in 2015.

Writing about the ordeal in his 2019 book Darkness to Light, Odom wrote: "My heart stopped twice. I had 12 seizures and six strokes. My lungs collapsed and my kidneys ruptured. I was on life support. Everyone I'd ever loved was looking at me through bleary eyes.

"(The overdose) made me realise I couldn't live the way I'd been living."

Lamar married Khloe after just one month of dating in 2009 but The Kardashians star knew she had to file for divorce four years later following a "pivotal moment" during a conversation when the sports star was in the grip of addiction.

Speaking on her Khloe in Wonderland podcast last year, the 41-year-old star said: "I remember, I was married and my ex-husband had a drug addiction.

"And I knew that his addiction always heightened - he was in the NBA - and his addiction always heightened when he was in the off-season, cause idle time is the devil's playground.

"And so I remember he was asked to go to Team USA, if I remember correctly, and I was begging, 'Please, please go to Team USA', and I was pushing, and I remember he just looked at me and said, 'You can't want it more than I do.'

"It was so profound... I wanted it so badly, because I wanted to help him and to get him to feel the motivation and feel good, but he just wasn't in that place."

Khloe continued: "It took me a long time to get to, then I had to file for divorce.

"That was a very pivotal moment in my life because I remember that statement being like... 'Yeah, you're right. I can't want your life more than you.'"