's near-death experience was never supposed to be on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" -- or so we were told.
Sunday night's show featured Lamar hooked up to various forms of life support last October, shortly after he OD'd on cocaine.
During the episode the family talks about how Lamar looked in a Nevada hospital bed. They showed Lamar these pics as he recovered at Cedars Sinai in L.A., where he was doing better.