Taylor Armstrong Still Wearing Wedding Ring

Sept. 16 2011, Published 5:30 a.m. ET
By Adam S. Levy - Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills beauty Taylor Armstrong is still brandishing the physical and emotional scars of the rocky relationship she shared with her late husband Russell, telling Entertainment Tonight Thursday it's "comforting" for her to “wear his wedding ring” and remain living in the house they shared.
"For me, I need his energy around me and around our daughter," Taylor told the show's co-anchor Nancy O' Dell, referring to their 5-year-old child Kennedy.
O'Dell, a veteran entertainment journalist who met Taylor for the first time while conducting the interview, said that while the grieving 40-year-old widow is "fragile ... she's very in tune with her feelings ... she speaks very intelligently."
O'Dell said while Taylor's "trying to walk on eggshells, as she did during her marriage, with her daughter," she didn't hold back a thing regarding the alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of her late ex, who hanged himself last month.
The show also consulted with New York based reconstructive surgeon Dr. Bar