‘RHOC’ Star Taylor Armstrong Opens Up About Being Bisexual & Previous Relationship With Woman

Taylor Armstrong spoke publicly about her five-year relationship with a woman and being bisexual. 

Armstrong told her castmates from Real Housewives of Orange County in a new episode that she is attracted to “great souls.”

She additionally spoke about a relationship she had with another woman for five years. 

Armstrong’s role is a “friend of a housewife” this season and joined the other women on their trip to Montana. 

During the episode fellow cast member Jennifer Pendantri asked her, “Are you [bisexual]?” To which Armstrong jokingly replied, “Now are you nervous about me being in the bunkhouse with you?”

Armstrong explained that before getting married to her late husband Russell Armstrong she had been in a long-term relationship with a woman. 

“Most people are surprised to find out that I’m bisexual probably just because of stereotypes,” Taylor said. “I mean it’s not something I broadcast, but I’m open to all people who have great souls that you can love.”

Taylor was married to Russell from 2004 to 2011. The two have one daughter together, ​​Kennedy, 17. Taylor filed for divorce in 2011 claiming that Russell physically and verbally abused her. 

A month after their split, Russell died after committing suicide at age 47. 

Taylor remarried in 2014 to John Bluher and the family lives together in Orange County. 

Taylor spoke publicly about her joining RHOC and how her experience would be different from RHOBH. 

“I went through so much trauma when I was on Beverly Hills,” she told People. “And now I’m getting to have such a fresh perspective of just being with the ladies and having fun and speaking my truth and not being concerned about what it’s like to actually go home at the end of the day.”

She specifically stated how her abuse changed her, “​​I really was having so much drama at home with my marriage and the abuse in my life that I didn’t really get a chance to be myself… I just became a ghost, really.”

She noted that “people are going to get to know a different side of me,” on RHOC.