ACTRESS, FILMMAKER, AND ACTIVIST MARISKA HARGITAY ON GETTING JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
I got a sense early on that law & Order: SVU and my role on it were going to have more significance in my life than I’d initially anticipated. After I started filming the first season in 1999, I was invited to a dinner for Mt. Sinai Hospital’s Sexual Assault Violence Intervention program to honor [the show’s creator] Dick Wolf. That was the first time I heard the sexual-violence statistics that to this day rock me back on my heels: At some point in her life, one in three women reports being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend. I started doing the math whenever I was in a group of women, and I was just floored. And I thought, “Why isn’t everyone talking about this?”
This story is from the May 2018 edition of InStyle.
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