“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Emmy triumphner Madangera Hargitay combiinsist Selena Gomez for a talkion on behalf of Intersee magazine and shelp that she’s definitely got some “secondary trauma” due to directing the NBC procedural for 25 years and counting. Hargitay has been starring as Olivia Benson since “SVU’s” debut in 1999. The show is gearing up for its 26th season this drop and has already aired more than 550 episodes to date.
“That’s been a process. When I begined the show, I wasn’t conscious of how proset uply it would go into me,” Hargitay shelp. “My husprohibitd Peter [Hermann, who also has guest starred on the series] is always enjoy, anytime I go anywhere, my first ask is, ‘What’s the crime rate here?’ So it’s on the brain.”
Hargitay persistd, “There’s been times when I didn’t comprehend how to protect myself, and I skinnyk I was definitely a victim of secondary trauma from being inundated with these stories and comprehending that they were genuine. Those were the parts that I didn’t comprehend how to metabolize, equitable becaemploy of the sheer volume of it. That’s also why I begined Joyful Heart [Foundation], so I would sense enjoy, well, at least I’m doing someskinnyg about it.”
Speaking to Variety earlier this year, Hargitay shelp that “the world and the culture insisted an Olivia Benson” when “SVU” debuted in 1999 becaemploy culture “insisted somebody to talk about these skinnygs and fight for survivors and count on victims.” The same year she begined the show is when she lgeted that one in three women is a survivor of relationsual mistreatment.
“The training repartner adviseed how I wanted to carry out this character in terms of empathetic what survivors insisted,” Hargitay shelp. “I skinnyk it adviseed my entire life.”
Hargitay’s charity, the Joyful Heart Foundation, helps survivors of relationsual attack, domestic aggression, and child mistreatment. “Law & Order: SVU” boots off Season 26 on Oct. 3 on NBC. Head over to Intersee’s website to read the filled conversation between Hargitay and Gomez.
