Mariska Hargitay
speaker
409 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Mariska Hargitay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I feel like I've had a hole in my heart.
Just something has always been wrong.
Something has always been wrong.
missing, something could never be filled, and there was always just this incredible sadness.
When I look back at the photos of me, there was a lot of frozen smiles.
And I remember I had a big personality and I was very happy, but when I got sad, I don't think my parents knew how to deal with it, so they would tell me to snap out of it and that I was like a black cloud.
And that was really rough for me because I learned quickly that there wasn't room for my sadness.
And now I see it as it was too much for my dad.
He had so much grief and so much pain and so much that he almost couldn't handle anymore.
And so I learned very young to be the joy bringer, to be fun girl, to be just every room I walked into, light it up and make it better.
And there came a big cost.
It's not only exhausting, but you betray yourself, and you sacrifice yourself, and you become a people pleaser, and you do everything for other people to keep them happy.
And there's a lot of good things to it, too.
But it's been a very beautiful journey of integration and unencumbering.
My nervous system is utterly and completely different.
And I just have so much more internal space.
for everything, for my family, for my children, for my creativity, for my acting, for my directing.
And I just have a piece that I never had before.
Making this film was one of the most liberating things that I've ever done because people said, oh, it's so personal.
I can't believe how vulnerable you are.
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