Lamar Odom

was an “immature punk” in his romance with Taraji P. Henson.

The

39-year-old NBA star privately romanced the Empire star in 2009, and

revealed their relationship in his new book, Darkness to Light: A Memoir,

in which he also claimed to have been on a double date with Taraji’s The

Curious Case of Benjamin Button co-star Brad Pitt, and his then-wife

Angelina Jolie.

And now, Lamar

has said he wishes he “would have done things differently” with the

49-year-old actress.

Speaking in

a preview clip for his appearance on the TV One docuseries Uncensored,

he said: “I wish I would have done things different with her. She was a

little older than me, but I learned a lot from her because that was the most

significant relationship as a grown-up that I had with a black woman.

“I used

to carry her picture on the road with me. Don’t nobody know that, except for

the dudes that played with me, but, she gave me inspiration. A black woman

working like that, that’s just as good with her craft as I am in my

craft.”

Lamar claims

he was “immature” during their relationship, and ended up leaving the

actress when he fell in love with Khloe Kardashian, whom he married in

September 2009 after just one month of dating.

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He added: “Things ended with Taraji because of me being an immature punk. I didn’t know how to tell her that I was falling in love with another woman named Khloe Kardashian.”

The sports star and the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star finalised their divorce in 2016, and Lamar is now romancing Sabrina Parr, with whom he recently said he would love to have twin sons.