Mariska Hargitay
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Everything that he taught me about working hard and being excellent and how it takes that much more.
Whatever you're doing, it takes that much more to be excellent, to win.
And all these different things that he said over the years that I've integrated into myself, that when I found out at 25 that he was not my biological father, that undid me almost worse.
Almost worse.
Because that's when I felt...
Really alone here.
Like, really alone.
Yeah, I mean, he literally said, don't read those.
They're sensationalistic bullshit.
And they were.
He was right.
But I guess he, you know, he knew.
And he was just like...
They were tabloidy.
It was horrible, cruel, unfair, one-note, you know, just not journalism in any way.
I mean, if you're going to write a book about somebody, get it right.
So I never did.
And I'm so glad that I didn't.
And even though I was raised in Hollywood, in West Hollywood, I really didn't have a very, like, Hollywood.
We were just away from all of it.