(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Taylor Armstrong says that she wanted to hug her late husband Russell "one last time" after he was found dead last month.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star has spoken for the first time about what happened when she first realised the financier had committed suicide by hanging himself.

In the interview with Entertainment Tonight, the socialite became emotional as she revealed the sequence of events on the fateful day.

"I did not [see his body]," Taylor revealed. "I asked the and I'm sure a lot of people won't understand this but I asked the emergency workers if I could go in and hug him before they took him away but they wouldn't let me."

"I just felt like I needed to see him one last time, but they wouldn't let me."

Taylor also revealed that she is still wearing her wedding ring and her late husband's, despite having filed for divorce shortly before Russell's suicide.

"I'm now wearing his wedding ring and mine together," she shared. "Right now I'm still doing anything I can to figure out how to get close to him."

"I still have the last shirt he wore before the night of and sometimes I sit in my closet with it cause maybe I think I'm gonna get insight or may I just need to feel close to him."

Taylor says that although their five-year-old daughter Kennedy had come with her to where Russell was staying, thankfully the young girl was not in the house when her father's body was found.

"Kennedy was [in the car] sitting on Julie's (Taylor's assistant's) lap pretending to steer and she said, Julie, did my daddy do something dumb?'"

Russell also left behind two sons from previous relationships. (C) Cover Media