Anchor Talks About Her Arrest and that Bald Mugshot
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Armstrong was busted on a battery charge after cops say she hit her son.
Armstrong's son told police that he was lying on the bed watching a motivational video when she came into the room and began talking to him about God. He allegedly told her to keep her "beliefs to herself."
After her arrest, many Facebook friends expressed outrage over the release of a bald mugshot of Armstrong, which went viral on social media.
The Anchor has gotten a lot of support from the community since her arrest and she returned to work yesterday.
She did a Facebook Live when she returned to the station.
“... Just wanted to kind of give you guys the heads up , let you know that I’m back,” she said to her audience, “really just to say, ‘thank you so much for the support; just really, really touched me.”
As she spoke about the incident, Armstrong said hello to people who commented in real time.
“You know, things happened, and on the advice of counsel I can’t talk a lot about what happened with my family,” Dee said, referring to her arrest. “Maybe one day, but I can’t do it now.
“You know, God keeps ya, because I was so nervous last night; I said this is going to be hard,” she continued. “It wasn’t hard, it wasn’t hard at all. It’s like I had never left.”
Instead of focusing on her legal issues, Armstrong talked about Alopecia, a hair loss problem with which she’s been struggling. She said the issue is something she had intended to share with her audience at some point in the future.
“I was eventually going to, but they made sure I’m gonna talk about it now,” she said with a chuckle.
Armstrong said God works life like a chess board because she had been speaking to a hair expert in Atlanta about hair- thinning and Alopecia.
She said the woman would be on her program 11 a.m. Thursday to talk about hair problems.
“I have had so many women telling me, ‘Hey Dee, you’re not alone. I thought about shaving my head, too, because I’m dealing with this,’” she said. “So, listen, we’re going to be talking about that.”
Referring to support from the community after the incident, Armstrong said “people were so doggone sweet to me.”
“... One of the hardest things to ever happen to me was to have them post that picture of me,” she said of the mugshot. “And I wanted to do it on my own terms, you know. It’s like, when I talk about it I wanted to talk about it the way I wanted to talk about it. But I wasn’t given that option.
“So today I am going to talk about it,” she said. “And I’ve been so surprised. I’ve had woman after woman after woman come up to me talking about how they deal with something similar.
”And women deal with it differently,” she said. “Some will weave it and do all kinds things like that. I just decided I wasn’t dealing with it, I was just going to shave my head. So that’s what I did.
“But that was my personal business, it wasn’t supposed to be out there like that,” she added.
Regarding the arrest, Armstrong said the cases is in the “legal realm” and something she can’t talk about right now.
“You can pray for me, because I believe prayer changing e’rything,” she said. “... God is real, yes he is. Anybody believes he ain’t real, they got a problem ‘cause they gonna have to deal with it one day. They’re going to have to look him right in the eye and say, ‘Oops, my bad.’ And it’s going to be too late.”
Later in the video, she began singing “God is still is able, yes he is, yes he is.”
H/T ledger-enquirer
