"Death always seems to be around me," Odom told the Los Angeles Times in 2011 interview.
His 24-year-old cousin was murdered in New York in July of that year. The next day, he was a passenger in a car involved in an accident that killed a 15-year-old boy, according to The Times.
His mother died when he was 12 of colon cancer and the grandmother who raised him died in 2004, The Times reported. His son, Jayden, died in 2006 of sudden infant death syndrome, according to the Associated Press. The child was 6 months old.