RHOBH alum Taylor Armstrong details late husbands horrifying abuse before his suicide: I thought he was going to drown me
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Taylor Armstrong has detailed the awful abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband before his shocking suicide 14 years ago.Taylor, 53, opened up about the horrifying abuse in the latest episode of Investigation Discovery’s new docuseries, “Hollywood Demons,” according to DailyMail.com.She recounted how her late husband, Russell Armstrong, had nearly drowned her, threatened her life, and once struck her so hard that he fractured her orbital floor.The first incident unfolded at another couple’s house as the pair were expressing concern for Taylor’s safety 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 reality 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.'”But Russell apparently overheard the discussion and “knocked all of [the male friend’s] teeth out” after “throwing” Taylor into the nearby 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.”Another startling incident occurred when Russell “grabbed [Taylor] by the throat” and threatened to kill her because she served his sons “pizza without a vegetable.”“Once his boys were visiting us, and I made them a pizza,” the reality star said.“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 final incident, and the event that convinced Taylor to file for divorce from her venture capitalist husband, unfolded in June 2011 on the Bravo star’s 40th birthday.Taylor had recently returned from a trip to Las Vegas ...