“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Taylor Armstrong has detailed the terrible abuse she suffered by the hands of her husband earlier than his stunning suicide 14 years in the past.
Taylor, 53, opened up in regards to the horrifying abuse within the newest episode of Investigation Discovery’s new docuseries, “Hollywood Demons,” in response to DailyMail.com. She recounted how her late husband, Russell Armstrong, had practically drowned her, threatened her life, and as soon as struck her so arduous that he fractured her orbital flooring.
The primary incident unfolded at one other couple’s home because the pair had been expressing concern for Taylor’s security and well-being.
“Russell, he left, and this couple, they were very close to me and were very aware of what was going on,” the truth star claimed on the episode of “Hollywood Demons” airing on Monday, April 14. “The man said, ‘We’ll help you get out of this because this is not okay, and we’re really worried for you.’”
However Russell apparently overheard the dialogue and “knocked all of [the male friend’s] teeth out” after “throwing” Taylor into the close by pool.
“He threw me in the pool. He grabbed the man, knocked all of his teeth out, and he jumped in the pool, and he was trying to hold me under the water,” the “RHOBH” alum recalled. “I thought he was going to drown me.”
One other startling incident occurred when Russell “grabbed [Taylor] by the throat” and threatened to kill her as a result of she served his sons “pizza without a vegetable.”
“Once his boys were visiting us, and I made them a pizza,” the truth star stated. “He came into the house, grabbed me by the throat, and put me against the wall. He said, ‘If you ever serve my kids a pizza without a vegetable again, I’ll kill you.’”
The ultimate incident, and the occasion that satisfied Taylor to file for divorce from her enterprise capitalist husband, unfolded in June 2011 on the Bravo star’s fortieth birthday.
Taylor had not too long ago returned from a visit to Las Vegas with fellow actuality star Lisa Vanderpump, and Russell accused his spouse of dishonest on him in the course of the Sin Metropolis go to. He then struck Taylor within the face and broke the bony construction that helps her eyeball.
“It was my 40th birthday, we checked into The Four Seasons where we met, and he gave me eight pairs of my favorite shoes and a really long card and it was all about how he knew he hadn’t been a good husband and that things were going to change,” the “Hiding From Reality” writer stated.
“That night, after my birthday party, we were laying in bed and he said something to the effect of, I know you slept with the Chippendales when you were in Vegas,” she continued. “He just proceeded to push and push, and he would not let up.”
“He raised up, leaned over like this, and punched me,” Taylor reenacted the stunning scene. “He fractured my orbital floor, and so I went to see the doctor, and Russell went with me.”
Taylor needed to endure reconstructive surgical procedure following the incident and filed for divorce from Russell that July. He ended up hanging himself at a good friend’s home one month later. He was 47.
“There was a myriad of things that he was very concerned about, but I never thought that he would kill himself,” she admitted on “Hollywood Demons.” “Suicide never crossed my mind.”
Ronald Richards, Russell’s lawyer, later instructed ABC Information that the enterprise capitalist was round $1.5 million in debt on the time of his suicide.
Taylor and Russell shared one daughter, Kennedy, 19. The truth star additionally remarried to a profitable lawyer, John Bluher, in 2014.
