The famous American actress Mariska Hargitay comes out of silence and reveals that she suffered from rape several years ago in a very personal and truly poignant article. The star of New York, Special Forces evokes a mechanics of control and domination.
New York, organized crime, Chicago Police Department, Criminal Puzzle…Since she began her acting career in the mid-1980s, Mariska Hargitay has resolved numerous investigations to reestablish the truth and win the victims’ cases. The American actress, who will very soon celebrate her 60th birthday, has taken on several cop roles in films and series, the most famous of which remains that of the captain. Olivia Benson In New York, special unitsince the first season in 1999. This very popular series features a team of investigators responsible for convict sexual predators by justice.
But what we have just learned is that the mother of August, Amaya and Andrew, was herself victim of rape about twenty years ago. This is what she just revealed in a moving and intimate forum published in the magazine People. “A man raped me in my thirties”she says, before giving details of the suffering she endured.
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A scene that provokes fear
In this unexpected column, Mariska Hargitay explains that “It wasn’t sexual at all.”but that it was about “domination” and of “control”. “I tried everything to get out of this situation: humor, charm, setting limits, reasoning with him, saying no. But he grabbed me by the arms, tackled me to the ground, I was terrified. I froze”, she reports, recounting a violent scene which took place without her consent. The actress who shares the life of Peter Hermann, met on the set of New York, special unittook a long time before speaking and explains it by the fact that his brain wanted to forget him for a while.
Mariska Hargitay had “need to see what healing could look like”. “Today when I see speeches in which I say that I am not ‘a survivor’, I do not have the feeling of lying, because I did not see myself as such. Today, I can see clearly what was done to me”adds the actress, now aware of her past that she wanted “minimize”.
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Mariska Hargitay wants to help other victims
In the rest of her speech, Mariksa Hargitay suggests that she wishes to give real scope to this platform to help women who are themselves victims of rape, as she did more implicitly through her role as ‘Olivia Benson, and regretting that we cannot understand this psychological mechanism which pushes us to silence. “Sexual violence is not perpetuated by virtue of an invariant of the human condition, it exists because power structures authorize it to do so“she insists on this subject, insisting that she wanted “this violence stops”before specifying that his notoriety and the testimonies of his admirers had contributed to his healing. “Survivors who watched the series told me that I helped them, that I gave them strength. But it was they who gave me strength”she concludes.
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