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Mariska Hargitay is opening up about a traumatic experience.
The 59-year-old Law & Order: SVU star shared her story with People in a new, powerful essay.
“A man raped me in my thirties. It wasn’t sexual at all. It was dominance and control. Overpowering control,” she began.
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“He was a friend. Then he wasn’t. I tried all the ways I knew to get out of it. I tried to make jokes, to be charming, to set a boundary, to reason, to say no. He grabbed me by the arms and held me down. I was terrified. I didn’t want it to escalate to violence. I now know it was already sexual violence, but I was afraid he would become physically violent. I went into freeze mode, a common trauma response when there is no option to escape. I checked out of my body.”
She also wrote about building her foundation for abuse survivors, Joyful Heart.
“I was building Joyful Heart on the outside so I could do the work on the inside. I think I also needed to see what healing could look like. I look back on speeches where I said, ‘I’m not a survivor.’ I wasn’t being untruthful; it wasn’t how I thought of myself,” she revealed.
“I occasionally had talked about what this person did to me, but I minimized it. My husband Peter remembers me saying, ‘I mean, it wasn’t rape.’ Then things started shifting in me, and I began talking about it more in earnest with those closest to me,” Mariska went on to say.
“Now I’m able to see clearly what was done to me. I understand the neurobiology of trauma. Trauma fractures our mind and our memory. The way a mirror fractures.”
Mariska also addressed the idea of seeking justice.
“As for justice, it’s important to know that it may look different for each survivor. For me, I want an acknowledgment and
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