And now someone’s dead.
Russell Armstrong, the flinty, irritating husband of Taylor Armstrong–of the perfectly toned arms and mile-wide smile from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills–apparently killed himself last night. He was found hanging in a bedroom of their Mullholland Drive home. By all reports, his life was a mess: his wife had filed for divorce, he was in massive debt, he was being sued to the tune of $1.5 million, he very well could have been just a high class grifter, not the “venture capitalist” he claimed. He might even have been an abuser. (There are reports he shoved Taylor and perhaps abused his first wife.) Not a nice guy, clearly, as anyone who watched the show can attest. He was socially awkward, cold—even downright mean–to his melancholic, grasping, pseudo-glamorous wife, testy and judgmental towards everyone around him. But one quote in a Reuters article really struck me. “This (TV) show has literally pushed us to the limit,” he told People Magazine. Continue reading