- When the long-running Bravo series premiered in 2010, Taylor was married to Russell Armstrong.
- Russell abused the reality TV star in private, which her co-stars and the audience discovered.
- In 2011, Taylor filed for divorce from her first husband.
- To make matters worse, Russell committed suicide by hanging a month later.
- Taylor wanted Kennedy to remember her father regardless of what had happened to her or the circumstances surrounding his suicide.
Taylor Armstrong was a founding cast member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH), alongside Kyle Richards and Lisa Vanderpump. There, she reflected on her first marriage and her family.
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Taylor Armstrong’s first husband died tragically
Taylor met Russell while working as a waitress in a Beverly Hills restaurant in 2005.
They married less than a year after their engagement, and Taylor gave birth to their daughter Kennedy in 2006.
When RHOBH first aired in 2010, fans saw Taylor and Russell’s feud develop right away.
She, on the other hand, was always brave and kept the truth hidden from the cameras.
Similarly, there were numerous rumors that the Armstrongs were having financial difficulties.
However, Taylor did not confirm the claims that they were having financial difficulties.
Everything was revealed in RHOBH season 2. Russell, according to Camille Grammer, was assaulting Taylor.
The physical abuse was so severe that the reality star needed reconstructive surgery for an orbital fracture after Russell hit her.
Taylor had a nervous breakdown during the season, and after the second season wrapped, she filed for divorce.
She did so in July 2011, accusing Russell of verbal and physical abuse.
Russell was discovered dead hanging on Mulholland Drive exactly a month later, on August 15, 2011.
According to HollywoodLife.com, he died at 8:16 p.m. and did not leave a suicide note.
Russell’s first wife, Barbara Armstrong, blamed Taylor for his suicide. “I don’t like her at all,” she told Radar Online. “I believe she is the cause of this.”
Barbara went on to say that she had warned Russell about Taylor, but it had all been for naught. “I think she Taylor drove him into financial stress, and it just ruined him,” she added.
Taylor Armstrong was heartbroken
Taylor was devastated following the tragic death of her first husband.
“Taylor Armstrong is devastated by the tragic events that have unfolded,” her attorney, Robert Throne, told TMZ.
She wishes to be alone at this time in order to console her young daughter.”
Kennedy was five years old at the time of Russell’s death.
Taylor discussed her first husband’s death on the March 18, 2019, episode of Divorce Sucks with Laura Wasser.
She revealed how her daughter found out about Russell’s abuse.
She recalled a time when she and her daughter talked about him after he died.
Taylor wanted Kennedy to remember her father regardless of what had happened to her or the circumstances surrounding his suicide.
She had always shielded her daughter from the abuse she was subjected to. But she had no idea that Kennedy was aware of everything.
One day as the mother-daughter duo was driving to school, Taylor asked Kennedy if she missed her father.
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Kennedy stated that she did not, to which Taylor responded, “‘I miss him sometimes. Do you recall our trip to Hawaii?”
“Mommy, why would you miss a boy who screamed at you all the time?” Kennedy responded.
At the time, the RHOBH alum was taken aback by her daughter’s response and sobbed in the car.
Taylor wants to make sure that Kennedy grows up to have a healthy relationship now that she is a teenager.
Taylor hopes that, regardless of what happened with her first husband, Kennedy will learn something from her mother’s second husband, John Buhler.
