In part two of the "Entertainment Tonight" interview that again spilled over with details so personal it felt like you were eavesdropping to be hearing it, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Taylor Armstrong talked about the day of her husband Russell's August suicide, including the revelation that she had asked EMT workers if she could hug his dead body before they took it away.
The EMT workers said no, and Armstrong said the discovery of Russell Armstrong's body — by a friend of hers — sent her into such a shock that she "had run into the street screaming and crying … and as I was laying in the street screaming, I realized that my little girl was there, and I had to pull it together and get her out of there."
Taylor and Russell Armstrong's now five-year-old daughter Kennedy was waiting in a car with Taylor Armstrong's assistant, but she told "ET" interviewer Nancy O'Dell that she begged emergency workers to let her take Kennedy away from the chaos.
"There were fire trucks and police cars, and I just kept saying to them, 'You have to let me get my little girl out of here,'" Armstrong told O'Dell. "'Please don't bring her daddy's body out while she's here.'"
Armstrong also confirmed that, as can be heard on the 911 call made after the discovery of Russell Armstrong's body when he hung himself on Aug. 15, the first person she called after 911 was her psychiatrist, who had been counseling both her and her estranged husband.
"I knew that if anyone would have any insight to what had just happened, that maybe he could shed some light on the circumstances," she told O'Dell of the therapist.
Armstrong also said Kennedy is seeing a child therapist, but that she's coping it with her father's death "in the way that five-year-olds do … she asks a lot of questions."
She confirmed that her daughter had witnessed some of the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her late husband, including incidents where he would come home late at night, find Kennedy sleeping in bed with her mom and begin screaming obscenities at his wife, in front of his child.
Taylor Armstrong said her daughter recently told her, "'Mommy, I know you're gonna get married again, and he's going to be really nice to you, because my daddy used to scream at you all the time.'"
"And I hate that she has that memory," Armstrong said.
As for the reality TV star herself, who hinted at the more serious issues in her marriage in this week's episode of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," she revealed to O'Dell that she's not only still wearing her own wedding ring, but that she's wearing it together with Russell's.
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"Right now, I'm still doing anything I can to figure out how to get close to him," she told O'Dell, who asked Armstrong what she would say to Russell if she had the chance to talk to him.
"Let me help you … whatever you need. Just let me help you," Armstrong answered. "I just never would have imagined that he would ever be in a position where he felt as though life wasn't worth living.
"No matter how bad things ever got, I couldn't imagine giving up the opportunity to watch Kennedy's face change and watch her grow and walk her down the aisle … it's just unfathomable to me. What was happening that made you feel like you just couldn't be here anymore?"
Part three of Nancy O'Dell's interview with Taylor Armstrong airs on "Entertainment Tonight" on Thursday, and includes O'Dell asking Armstrong if Bravo and "Real Housewives" executives were aware of the abuse she's alleged, and whether or not she thinks the network played any role in Russell Armstrong's disturbed state.
