Taylor Armstrong, reality tv star: please read

In a new interview with Fox News, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Taylor Armstrong says her new memoir, Hiding From Reality —about her allegedly abusive marriage to financial investor Russell Armstrong —will help other women in similar situations. Sadly, Taylor’s husband Russell killed himself in August 2011; the couple had separated in July. The widowed Housewife opened up about the book, her turbulent relationship, and why she stayed with Russell for so long. Taylor’s main motivations for writing the memoir were to explain why people return to abusive relationships and help women “recognize when they’re involved in a relationship like this to get out before [they] get addicted to that cycle” —which she calls a “love addiction.” Love might seem like a strange word to use, but despite the abuse, Taylor insists she “absolutely loved” her husband —