Taylor Armstrong Hospitalization: The Reason Behind The Vicious Beating

Posted on Sep 16, 2011 @ 12:00PM

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Taylor Armstrong was badly beaten by her husband Russell Armstrong after she told him her friends planned to report his past physical abuse to law enforcement and child protective services, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Russell committed suicide and was found hanging at a friend’s home in Los Angeles on August 15, several months after Taylor filed for divorce.

Taylor's closest friends and advisers were growing increasingly worried for her safety, as well as the wellbeing of her 5-year-old daughter, Kennedy, and were threatening to go to the authorities with their concerns.

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"Taylor's friends were so worried about her and Kennedy's welfare. Her advisers issued a gauntlet, either file for divorce, or we are going to the cops and Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services with our fears,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “When Taylor told Russell what her friends planned on doing, he beat her, and that is what caused her to go to the hospital.”

Taylor decided while she was hospitalized that she would file for divorce. "Taylor was broken and beaten when she was hospitalized. She took pictures to document what had happened. Taylor made the decision to pull the plug on her marriage while she was still in the hospital. She realized she had no other choice," the insider says.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Russell had a violent past towards the women in his life, including his ex-wife, Barbara Fredrickson and then girlfriend, Claudia Haro.

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Russell was charged with battery for beating Barbara after she claimed in court docs that: "Russell threw me to the ground and slapped me across the face....the police were called to Russell's and my residence during our marriage because Russell hit me, blackened my eyes, kicked me in the back, threw crystal drinking glasses at me and spit on me."

On March 30, 1998, Russell Armstrong pled no contest to a battery charge involving Fredrickson. Armstrong was placed on three years probation, ordered to perform 50 hours of community service, attend a one year anger management program, attend 50 AA meetings and give a $1,000 donation to the Women's Clinic in Venice, California.

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Quote from Diane Dimond's article: "She’s from Oklahoma, for goodness sakes! And she’s changed her name from Shana Hughes to Shanna Taylor to Taylor Ford to Taylor Armstrong...." Multiple personalities, perhaps??

by travelbug
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 2:14am

Please after watching this show and the other HW saying they knew about this - THEY NOR BRAVO did ANYTHING to protect Kennedy from any of this! They just kept filming. Not sure Russell dying was in it.

by randomone
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 6:40pm

Read the DB story by Diane Dimond. This woman probably has stolen money in off shore accounts..She is as guilty as her dead husband for living off other peoples money.$11,000 a month just to run their household

by cyn
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 5:31pm

Seriously? Obviously all these comments are from his family in complete denial & maybe trying for $ as well.It's not just her-he has history of violence.WOW-such support for an alleged batterer?

by missyrocks
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:35pm

Seriously? Obviously all these comments are from his family in complete denial & maybe trying for $ as well.It's not just her-he has history of violence.WOW-such support for an alleged batterer?

by missyrocks
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:35pm

He beat her up because he was gay? Geesh this woman needs to go work on herself, but in true Hollywood fashion she will milk this for as long as we can look at her horseface.

by justsayingso
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:42am

For whatever reason, ROL is funding her bank account with all these stories! However, I guarantee you all that this is Taylors idea of of a proactive defense for what's to come. We are not as stupid as she and her attorney would like to think!

by therock
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:40am

I completely agree. She's going to use the abuse excuse as a defense for her scams. She's a piece of work (literally)!

by thefamewhoreblog
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:01am

Few of the many people we spoke with who know the Armstrongs believe the conventional wisdom that Russell died broke—or that his wife Taylor faces a penniless life. I read the entire story on marketwatch back in Aug and she is screwed!

by therock
Posted Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:39am