“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” star Mariska Hargitay said she feels like a “victim of secondary trauma” after dealing with dark subject issues on the show while being part of it for more than two decades.
Speaking to Interview magazine, the 60-year-old actress said playing detective Olivia Benson on the hit NBC series for 25 years has been a “process” of learning how to sift out the material she has to deal with about sex crimes on the show that were “ripped” from real-life headlines.
“When I started the show, I wasn’t aware of how deeply it would go into me,” Hargitay said during a chat for the magazine with Selena Gomez. “My husband Peter [Hermann] is always like, anytime I go anywhere, my first question is, ‘What’s the crime rate here?’ So it’s on the brain.”
“There’s been times when I didn’t know how to protect myself, and I think I…
