Mariska Hargitay

I'm going to die right now.

Same as my mom.

I was at peace about it.

And after that accident, when I landed and I was fine, was really the sort of aha moment that my whole life changed.

I separated from her and said, I'm not my mother.

and I don't carry that karma with me.

It was a very freeing time, and everything sort of changed, and my outlook changed, and I think I got a renewed sense of clarity and seeing possibility in a new way.

Definitely.

I actually, I think, in a way, manifested the accident.

I don't really have the words for it, but I just think it's no accident that I was 34 and I had this experience, and that's what changed it.

That's what broke it and that kind of fear base that was running me, really.

I had a lot of PTSD growing up and dissociation from the car accident.

And I didn't know what it was.

Yeah, because I was left in the car.

And there's been a few times when I've been in cars or in certain situations that I definitely got activated.

On the side of the road.

Yeah, under the passenger seat.

I don't, thank God.

But my body does.

My body definitely does.