Taylor Armstrong says in a TV interview that her late husband roughed her up and threatened to kill her. Taylor, part of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, spoke to Entertainment Tonight for a segment airing Tuesday. Her estranged husband, Russell Armstrong, committed suicide last month.
According to an ET transcript, Armstrong says her husband once grabbed her by the neck, shoved her against a wall and said he’d kill her if she ever again made pizza without vegetables for the family.
In an interview with People in July, Russell Armstrong said: “Did I push her? Yes, maybe things happened in the heat of the moment, but it was during a time in our lives that was not characteristic of who we were.”
He said the reality show had “literally pushed us to the limit.”
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Too bad she couldn’t just let him rest in peace.
If he smacked her—then she should have left him, and not gone on a tv show with him. This is all her fault and she deserved to be hit. At least we can take solace that she will likely pick a new man to punch her around when she doesn’t do her wifelies as described by the Bible, and she gets corrected in the only way that works with women like her.
Um, she DID leave him. Duh.
Crawl back into your cave! No one, male or female, EVER “deserved to be hit”. We learn in kindergarten to keep our hands to ourselves (or didn’t you make it that far in school?). As far as her doing “her wifelies as described by the Bible”…well, simply, you’re an idiot.
I agree with Disgusted. NO woman ever deserves to be hit. You need to go to anger management!
I also agree with Disgusted. Well put!
It seems from your comment that you must be an abuser yourself. You are filled with so much hatred your life must be miserable. Irrespective of how and what Taylor is, she is still a human being.
Great show and College-Hookups was amazing
You are an idiot! That is what is worng with “so called Christians” nowadays..you try to make the Bible say what you want it to say. I don’t think the Lord would agree with what you seem to believe.
My thoughts exactly. Sometime you should just shut your mouth and let sleeping dogs lie.
She got paid for this and supposedly she’s broke and needs the money. Hard to believe that her richest friends can’t help her out. Shows that some of her co-stars like the Richards sisters are really broke too. Lisa probably doesn’t believe in charity except for hot boy hunks who she lets live with her and the Maloof heiress I guess is probably headed for a divorce herself.
Well, if he was abusive. She has the right to speak out. All this talk about how Bravo should be blamed for his death is a load of crap. Suicide is the most selfish act ANYONE can make. I have had people close to me make that decision. Questions will never be answered. However, he chose to be on the show and it’s not like its a scripted character that he decided to play that potrayed him the way it did. It is a reality show after all. No one will know what happened behind close doors between Taylor and Russell. But as far as, “letting him rest in peace”, his selfish act didn’t cut her vocal cords. She has a right to tell her side of the story.
What, the man believes in a proper diet and was simply letting his wife know that
She is just as Disgusting as him. I can’t believe she is milking his death for. Profit. I feel bad for their daughter.
Boy, even after his suicide, she can put peace aside, for the sake of her child. Taylor is a bigger jerk than The Real Housewives shows already have seen. I think she she should just shut up and focus on rebuilding her life for her family, and letting her late husband rest in peace, and just think of the good times and not the bad.
She should “shut up” and not be truthful about things because of why? Abuse in families is often swept under the rug. And it shouldn’t be. He himself publicly admitted to putting his hands on her. What are your thoughts on that? Or do you think that simply because he committed suicide he should get a pass on his behavior?
You said it right!
Why does the world need to know this? Taylor was along for the ride when the money was flowing. Sounds like these two deserved each other. She’d better save some of this stuff for the inevitable book deal, or she’s going to run out of material…
I don’t, and would never, condone violence. But something seems really ‘off’ about this woman.
Great. Now I have an image of pizza grease all over her duck lips, stuck in my head.
I have compassion for any woman in an abusive relationship. But for a woman claiming to be focusing on her child, I’m not sure how it serves that child’s interest to say these kinds of things about the father who just committed suicide? This woman is off her rocker. Her behavior sort of negates any sympathy I have for her.
I actually didn’t think she was wrong for speaking publicly about it…but you’re absolutely right. It’s not good for her daughter.
Hiding abuse, pretending it didn’t happen or sweeping it under the rug and NOT talking about it is exactly why cycles of violence continue and why people are so ashamed that “it could happen to them”. More people coming out of the woodwork would seriously highlight this issue for all women (and men) involved in abuse cases.
I thought that Taylor couldn’t be more any reprehensible than she already was. For her child and his children sakes she should just shut up. She has every right to tell her story but now is not the right time and it is just wrong.
Someone should have told Russell that tomato sauce on a pizza is considered a vegetable…..but would it have killed Taylor to make some asparagus?
No disrespect to women who ARE battered, but I’m not buying this!
Taylor has a history of posing as someone she is not — supposedly, she has represented herself as Taylor Ford, an heiress to the Ford fortune, in soliciting investment funds from other people. (Google it!)
Plus, ALL throughout this show she has made claims that are never substantiated. Like claiming she has “no voice” although that 60K bday party for her daughter sure didn’t look like Russell’s idea! And neither did being on the show. In ever episode where he appears, he’s either leaving, trying to get her to leave, or looking like he desperately wishes to leave. So, again, whose voice are we missing here? Not Taylors.
However, the biggest — by far — problem for me with these domestic “abuse” claims is the complete and total lack of corroboration. She lives in Beverly HIlls and she’s on a TV show and she works for a domestic violence shelter. If he was hitting her, SOMEONE would have noticed and leaked it to the tabloids. Bravo would have been THRILLED to stage an intervention episode. We would be reading about police calls to their home or emergency department visits.
Something doesn’t add up here.
^ summed up perfectly
We were not privy to what went on in their homes but Russell when he was alive admitted to People magazine that he put his hands on her.
I do think the way Russell was always trying to make her leave parties, etc., was more of a control thing than anything. When a man wants to exercise that much control over his wife’s activities, it can be a red flag for abuse.
Right about now might be the time to shut her trap and just let him rest in peace. Stay classy, Taylor.
Taylor is a disgusting LIAR !!
I would have beat up both her lips with my hot dog! Ohh ya!
I would to cream that b!tch’s snaz with my man gravy
Sorry Talyor just wanted his money and now the money was running out she wanted to leave him. She had her face done a lot and now she has NO money and living off her friends and just trying to make a buck by saying all this bad things about her husband and her daughter Dad. I hope his family sues her over this.
So she should be sued for publicly stating what he already did? She said on the show that they had a business relationships. Loads of people get married for security, financial or otherwise. The only people that can question motives are the two in the relationship. If they are satsified with the arrangment, what is your beef? If she married him for financial security and he no longer could provide it, what would be “running out” if she wanted to divorce him since he could no longer provide the security offered? Life is not all rainbows, roses and unicorns. Reality is sometimes harsh. Many people marry for reasons other than romantic.