Taylor Armstrong weighed in on her longtime good friend Kyle Richards’ surprising separation from husband Mauricio Umansky.
Showing on “Watch What Occurs Stay with Andy Cohen” Tuesday, the “Actual Housewives of Orange County” star, 52, gushed over the estranged couple whom she has identified for over a decade.
“You understand how a lot I really like Kyle, and I need Kyle to be completely happy,” Armstrong mentioned of her former “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-star.
“I really like them each a lot and I do know that they’re all the time going to like one another. I need everybody to be completely happy. I’m so impartial on that entire situation.”
Armstrong struck up a friendship with the mother of 4 throughout her time on “RHOBH” within the present’s first three seasons.
After a short hiatus from TV, Armstrong moved to Orange County and now steadily seems on “RHOC” as a “good friend of a housewife.”
Web page Six confirmed on July 3 that Richards and Umansky, who tied the knot in January 1996, determined to separate after 27 years of marriage.
The fan-favorite couple admitted to a “difficult” yr in a joint Instagram assertion, writing, “We each love and respect one another tremendously. … There was no wrongdoing on anybody’s half.”
A few of Richards’ “RHOBH” co-stars have since weighed in on the separation, with Garcelle Beauvais telling “Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen” viewers in July that she and co-star Sutton Stracke had been “suspicious” of the couple.
In the meantime, Erika Jayne insisted that Richards and Umansky should not parting methods.
“I’m going to let Kyle actually clarify, however they’re not splitting,” Jayne mentioned with certainty in a July Billboard interview. “They’ve had a really arduous time. They’ve acknowledged that.”
Jayne — who continues to be coping with the aftermath of her personal messy cut up from disgraced former legal professional Tom Girardi — mentioned it’s “greatest” for Richards to “inform her personal story.”
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Shortly after information of their separation got here to mild, Richards and Umansky launched a joint assertion clarifying that any stories of them “divorcing are unfaithful.”
“Nevertheless, sure, now we have had a tough yr. Probably the most difficult one among our marriage,” the couple added.
The Bravolebrities share three daughters collectively: Alexia, 27, Sophia, 23, and Portia, 15. Umansky additionally helped increase Farrah Brittany, 34, whom Richards welcomed in her first marriage to Guraish Aldjufrie.
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The pair are nonetheless on nice phrases and even vacationed along with their daughters in Italy final month.
Their dolce vita getaway got here weeks after they spent the Fourth of July collectively.
What’s extra, the estranged couple have remained amicable on Instagram, with The Company co-founder even gushing over Richards’ steamy music video with nation singer Morgan Wade when it got here out on Aug. 10.
