Mariska Hargitay says she suffered 'secondary trauma' from stories on 'Law & Order: SVU,' which she has starred in since 1999.
"When I started the show, I wasn't aware of how deeply it would go into me," Hargitay explained in an interview with."My husband Peter 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 was definitely a victim of secondary trauma from being inundated with these stories and knowing that they were true.
Indeed, Hargitay's character is constantly bombarded with, as the beginning of each episode says, "especially heinous" crimes.. Started in 2004, the foundation's mission is"to transform society's response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors' healing, and end this violence forever."One of the foundation's goals is to make sure that the backlog of rape kits across the country are tested.
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