Taylor Armstrong admits she couldn't have been abused unless she was 'willing'

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong has written a book about the struggles she’s endured in the past year, involving alleged domestic abuse and the suicide of her late husband Russell Armstrong.

Armstrong’s book, Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within, was published this week, and the reality star has received some backlash for telling these stories so soon after Russell’s suicide.

“We lost someone here, suicide divides families anyway and then you add on to it the fact that I’m telling the stories that happened prior to that,” said Armstrong on Access Hollywood Live.

“In doing the show this season, this was coming out anyway,” she explained of the alleged abuse from her late husband. “You see me in one of the last episodes with a remaining bruise under my eye from orbital reconstructive surgery.”

Although she’s coming forward with these allegations of abuse, she isn’t placing all of the blame on Russell.

“I started seeing I had these patterns my whole life. I was just a broken kid, who ended up in a broken marriage, with someone else who was broken. Russell wasn’t the culprit here, each of us being unhealthy and being together in an unhealthy way and the perpetuating that cycle,” she said. “We can’t be abused unless you’re willing to be abused.”

Taylor also talked about how her young daughter with Russell, Kennedy, 5, was affected by the fighting unbeknownst to her.

Still, The Daily Blabber from iVillage reports that the reality star said on the Today show of her late husband, "I love him to this day and miss him terribly," adding,"The good times were the best I've ever had, and the worst times were the worst I've ever had."