By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong says her husband's death last year has been good for their daughter, Kennedy.

“She’s more open and joyful since his death. She’s more outgoing than she was during his lifetime. She was feeling my anxiety," Taylor told The New York Post.

The blonde socialite has been vocal about her years of abuse she says she suffered at the hands of husband Russell Armstrong.

And even though her autobiography, Hiding From Reality, describes her troubled marriage in excruciating detail, Taylor insists that she also reminds Kennedy “about positive things” regarding her father.

As Breaking Celebrity News reported, the businessman had massive debts when he hanged himself August 15 in the couple's home.  Taylor had filed for divorce a few weeks earlier.

“I’ve worked closely with psychologists with her, and I’m keeping tabs on her,” Taylor said of her little girl.