Taylor Armstrong: Kennedy Never Saw Russell Hit Me
May 28 2018, Updated 10:11 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong says her 5-year-old daughter Kennedy never saw her estranged husband Russell hit her.
Entertainment Tonight -- who this week spoke with Taylor on camera but has yet to broadcast the interview -- made the revelation on its program Wednesday night.
E.T. also reported that only six weeks before he hanged himself last month, Russell sought to change his will, although he never drafted the paperwork to do so.
EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Barbara Armstong Alleges Russell Armstrong Abused Her And Their Son
E.T. also went into great detail about Russell’s past violence towards women -- a story Breaking Celebrity News first reported on back on August 2.
In our exclusive story last month, we reported that Armstrong had two separate temporary restraining orders filed against by him, one by his ex-wife, and one by an ex-girlfriend. In addition, Armstrong has a criminal record, having pled guilty to battery in 1997.
Russell Armstrong was married to Barbara Armstrong from 1997 and separated shortly after their son Aiden was born. In exclusive court documents obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, Barbara alleges that when she was six months pregnant: "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."
Barbara also states in her sworn declaration that in late 1997 Russell: "Pleaded guilty to battery and said that he understood that he had to go to an anger management program. That was the first anger management program that Russell was ordered to attend."
Barbara ultimately divorced Russell, remarried and moved to Arizona, but Aiden continued to see his father every other weekend, and flew to Los Angeles to do so.
On August 6, 2004, Barbara claims in her declaration that she was called by Russell's then-girlfriend, Claudia Haro, who told her she "Saw Russell slap Aiden across the face, very hard. This slap was so hard that Ms. Haro heard it across the room. Ms. Haro has seen and heard Russell slap Aiden's face very hard on other occasions."
Barbara subsequently got a temporary restraining order against Russell and requested that an off-duty police off