VIDEO: Taylor Armstrong’s interview with ET “In her own words”!
First we saw the pictures, and now we have the interview! Here is the interview ET got with Taylor Armstrong in the wake of her estranged husband Russell Armstrong’s suicide.
NY Post reported this morning that Taylor was paid $125,000 for the interview and accompying pictures. I think it’s pretty disgusting, if you ask me. I know not all of you will agree with me. During last night’s episode of ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Taylor broke down, and talked about how she grew up poor, without anything. She went on to cry that being poor was her biggest fear in life. She NEVER wants to go back there. She basically offered the information up as reason why she married Russell, financial security. So when Russell’s finances finally went down the toilet near the end of his life – Taylor finally got the balls to divorce him? Then – following his suicide she releases photos of abuse suffered at his hands – for money!? It’s disgusting. I actually DO believe Russell was a crummy guy – and beat her. With that said, I think it’s pretty tasteless to release the pictures after his death. Had his finances stayed in line with what she was comfortable with – would any of this be happening?
In a sitdown airing tonight on Entertainment Tonight, in addition to delivering what’s being billed as a “minute by minute” account of her experience of the suicide, the widowed Real Housewife of Beverly Hills also details some shocking allegations of abuse against the father of her child.
In one particularly harrowing instance, Taylor recalled, “He grabbed me by the neck and shoved me up against the wall, and he said, ‘If you ever make my children a pizza without a vegetable again, I’ll kill you.’”
In between tears, the reality star—who conducted the interview from the same Beverly Hills home she shared with Russell—told ET of yet another example of when his violent ways made her fear for her life.
“He would grab me by one side of the hair on my head, and bang the other side of my head against the car. He would say to me, ‘I’m afraid I’m going to kill you one day.’”
As for the inevitable question from critics who may condemn her for lobbing such damning allegations against a man who isn’t around to defend himself, she had an answer ready:
“He doesn’t need my protection anymore, but there are a lot of women in this world who probably do.”
She also took time during the obviously emotional interview to rehash the day she discovered Russell’s body in his shared Mulholland Drive home. Along with a male friend, she and daughter Kennedy were present when the body was found.
“As I was laying in the street screaming, I realized that my little girl was there,” she said through tears. “And I had to pull it together and get her out of there.”
As for how she explains the suicide to her 5-year-old, “I just told her that daddy got sick and he died, and that we could pick a star in the sky to be daddy, and she could talk to him every night.”
Who’s with me?
