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Mar 10, 2026

# Mariska Hargitay on the One Thing She Would Tell Her Late Mother Now

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## Video: Mariska Hargitay Wants To Normalize Conversations About Sexual Assault

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_Published 2026-03-10. At Tuesday’s TIME Women of the Year Leadership Forum, Mariska Hargitay was asked to reflect on what she learned from making her critically acclaimed feature directorial debut My Mom Jayne—a documentary exploring the life, career, and complicated legacy of her late mother, 1950s and ’60s Hollywood starlet Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay became emotional as she gave her response._

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## Megan McCluskey


Staff Writer

At Tuesday’s TIME Women of the Year Leadership Forum, [Mariska Hargitay](https://time.com/collections/women-of-the-year/7377898/mariska-hargitay-interview/) was asked to reflect on what she learned from making her critically acclaimed feature directorial debut [_My Mom Jayne_](https://time.com/7296741/my-mom-jayne-review-hbo/)—a documentary exploring the life, career, and complicated legacy of her late mother, 1950s and ’60s Hollywood starlet Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay became emotional as she gave her response.

“It’s weird to have maternal feelings for your mother, your dead mother. But she was only 34 when she died,” Hargitay told TIME editorial director Lucy Feldman while onstage at the event in Los Angeles. “And I’m so lucky that I’m 62 and still here. I’m so grateful for all of it. I just wish I could’ve been friends with her.”

She then revealed what she would tell Mansfield, who died in a car accident in 1967 which 3-year-old Hargitay and two of her siblings survived, if she were here today. “So much,” she said, choking up. “How much I love her, how much I admire her, and how grateful I am to be like her.”

During the discussion, Hargitay also spoke about her decades-long efforts to [destigmatize sexual assault](https://time.com/5681433/law-and-order-svu-sexual-assault/) and domestic violence, both through her iconic role as Captain Olivia Benson on NBC’s [_Law & Order: SVU_](https://time.com/7320572/law-and-order-svu-michele-fazekas/)and her work as the founder of the Joyful Heart Foundation.

“That’s one of the things I was most proud of with _SVU_,” she said. “Once it’s on TV, it’s watercooler conversation and we can talk about it. For me, I remember when I said, ‘I want people to talk about sexual assault the way they talk about breast cancer. That you’re a breast cancer survivor. And there’s no shame, there’s no stigma at all. You’re just powerful and strong and you’ve endured something.’ It’s so beautiful how we celebrate that. And that’s what I wanted.”

Hargitay, who also serves as a director and executive producer on _SVU_, went on to explain why she’s currently pushing for a _SVU_ storyline exploring the critical work undertaken by [sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs)](https://time.com/7380782/the-pitt-season-2-episode-8-recap-rape-kit/) in performing rape kit exams.

“We have specific nurses to do the intake for a victim of sexual assault because that’s also a retraumatizing exam and people don’t know that,” she said. “So what we’re trying to do is figure out where the weaknesses are and how to make those things smoother or to bring up the person who’s actually doing the swab and make them the hero because they’re the ones who solved the crime. It’s about figuring out how we work together as a team.” 

_The TIME Women of the Year Leadership Forum was presented by Target, Booking.com, Toyota, Deloitte, and Maker’s Mark._



## Transcript

Yay! I'm so happy to be here. I can't see straight. Well, thank you. Thank you for making the trip across the country to be here with us. We are so grateful. You've been playing Olivia Benson. For 79 years. Yes. Yes. You can't argue with that. Facts. And I smile in person. I feel like actors are always asked, you know, what of yourself do you bring to your character? But since you have been playing Olivia Benson for 79 years, I am curious, how do you feel that she has shaped you so much? I can answer both questions. I think what I brought to her is heart, empathy and compassion And what she taught me.

Is focus. Fearlessness. Feel the fear and do it anyway. And don't give up your femininity. And you're allowed to be all of yourself. She taught me how to be a boss, how to be a boss lady. And it's been beautiful to grow into that because I actually literally grew into that as I, as I matured and progressed, um, as an actor and a person on the show, I mean, I sort of did it in front of the whole world and I can even notice it, you know, with, with my voice and how my voice was softer and younger and more tentative with apology. I don't have that now. We love that development for you. Yeah, I love that development for all women.

And I, and I have so much compassion, right? Because I used to see some of the early shows and be like, like, what are you doing? And what is that like baby voice? And I say that because I was 35 when I started, but I was so like, ah, and understandably so. I have compassion for that self, but it's so exciting to take ownership, I guess, of our, of our, of our power and how good it feels and what it costs us oftentimes to do that. I want to go back to the very first thing you said, compassion and empathy. Because of the character that you play, you are sort of this trusted figure. People will come up to you and tell you their stories of deep, horrible things that have happened to them, what they've endured.

What have you learned being the keeper of such intimate and weighty secrets for all these years? Oh, so many things. I think the biggest gift that we can give people is to bear witness to their stories, to be in it with them and to believe them, and to simply listen. That is the greatest thing I think I've learned. And when I first started, um, when I was preparing for the role of, of, at the time, Detective Olivia Benson, I went through, um, a 40 hour training program to become a rape crisis counselor. And because I wanted to understand, you know, how to be the best at my job and how to be present and, and figure out what a survivor needs.

And I'll tell you, the most of the training was simply learning how to listen, you know, or not to say, I know what that's like, or I totally understand because you don't, you don't. And just listening and taking it in and saying, I see you and I'm sorry and I believe you. Um, it's so much, so many times just that is so healing. Just that is so healing. And I've had survivors share with me, um, I, my first movie that I made was called I am evidence about the backlog of untested rape kits. And, um, one of the survivors in the film when she was sharing her story of being assaulted, which was so brutal.

She said what was worse was not being believed by her mother. And that has stayed with me because I can't imagine how brutal that is. You know what I mean? It's to be taken in and to be seen and to be believed and to be held. That's where the healing is. So that's what I've learned. In addition to the training that you did for the show and the work that you do on the show, you have a foundation, the Joyful Heart Foundation, which you started in 2004. I'm curious how the mandate has changed over the years as the world has changed, and especially as advances in tech have led to these new ways of having to deal with exploitation.

And, um, you know, how how things have evolved for you. Well, in so many ways. And, you know, because we made so much progress and, uh. And we're here where we are today, which is quite painful, uh, now to have moved backwards, um, significantly with the current administration. Um, but what is beautiful for me is that when I started Joyful Heart and I started it because when I learned about the statistics of sexual assault and domestic violence on the show and found that it was, you know, 1 in 3 women in their lifetime, 1 in 6 six men in their lifetime and realizing that it was an epidemic. And why wasn't everyone talking about it?

Why wasn't everyone talking about it? And so when I first started it and I went to various organizations, they were like, yeah, we don't talk about that. Or yeah, if it's not a disease, if it's not heart disease, sorry, we can't help you or we can't give money. And I was like, wait, what? But if but if you're having lunch with four women, 1 in 4 women has been assaulted. By the time they're 18. And so that was very hard to continue to push through. And one of the most the things that's most beautiful now is all the brave and incredible survivors that have come forward. Unfortunately, sexual assault is is normalized now.

But now we can talk about it. And that's one of the things that I was most proud of, of SVU is that things that weren't discussed once it's on TV. It's water cooler A conversation and we can talk about it. And so for me, I remember when I, I said, I want people to talk about sexual assault, the way they talk about breast cancer, that you're a breast cancer survivor and there's no shame, there's no stigma at all. You're just powerful and strong and you've endured something. And, uh, it's, it's, it's so beautiful. And we how we celebrate that. And that's what I wanted is to get the stigma off. But, um, you know, there's been so much, uh, research in DNA and it's been really beautiful.

One of the things that I'm very interested is in the all crimes DNA bill, which should be passed everywhere, because what people don't realize is that, um, the number one thing that rapists are arrested for or have a history of is, um, petty larceny, Stealing and people don't know that. And so they think like, well, he never stole anything. And it's like, yeah, but that's how they start. And that was, um, if we watch I am evidence because I deal with this in that movie. If you haven't seen it, it's on HBO. Um, did I just drop something? We all picked it up. But we talk about that is, is that when when the jurisdictions don't communicate with each other, for example, if there's a rapist in one state, oftentimes they don't communicate.

Now, with Codis, with the national database, it's much better. But there's still, um, problems with talking in jurisdictions about how one jurisdiction handles something versus how another one does. So that's what we're working on now is to get all the jurisdictions to communicate and share information. But also when somebody steals something to take a swab. So they're in the system because as soon as they did that, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of rapes were solved because they had a simple swab. That's so powerful. So that's something that we're dealing with right now. We just had a board meeting about it, about how to, um, train also law enforcement because I was like, well, I don't understand why don't they do that?

And they said, because, you know, there's so much organization that has to take place, who's going to take the swab? Did they take the swab? Did they already take the swab? Oh, I was in there. The person who does the swab is not working right now. So it's all those kind of things. And it's the same way now that we have sane nurses, right? That we have specific nurses to do the intake for a victim of sexual assault, because that's also a retraumatising exam and people don't know that. And so you don't want to have somebody going, I don't know, where do I put the hair, you know, but these are things that happen.

So that's what we're trying to do is figure out where the the weaknesses are and how to make those things smoother, or to bring up the person who's actually doing the swab and make them the hero because they're the ones that solved the crime, right? So figuring out how we we work together as a team, I think I'm going to do an episode about it on SVU. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. So there's some very good reasons to watch your first film. Let's talk about your second film. My mom. Jane, about your mother, Jayne Mansfield. Thank you. Thank you. I think some people in the room have seen it and know that it's great.

It's so powerful. Thank you. How did telling that story about your mom change you as both daughter and filmmaker? Oh, again, in so many ways. You know, I feel like, um. I feel like I've been preparing my whole life to make that film because. I knew something that I didn't know as a child. But I felt it. I felt like something was off. And again, that's our intuition. That's the thing that we all possess, that we that, you know, I've been trying to hone my whole life and to teach young women about that voice that we have inside us, that we just need to be still enough to hear because we already know the answers.

We really do. I really, really believe that. And it only gets reinforced as, as I get older, it's like there's a feeling where you like, know if it's right or wrong. And I'm so grateful because my dad used to say that to me, if I did something wrong, he'd go, you know what you did? And it was such a gift because it's so empowering, right, to say to a child, I don't have to tell you, you know what you did? And then they're like, I know what I did. I'm sorry. And it makes them have agency over it and over their own opinions, and they're right or wrong. So, um. Can you share for people who might not know what that discovery was.

For. Me. Yes, the gut feeling that was valid. I felt like I didn't belong in my family. I felt that I was different from everyone. And my mother died. For those of you who haven't seen the film, my mother died when I was three in a car accident that I was, um, in. Our whole family. My siblings were as well. And, um, I was raised by, uh, an amazing man, my father, who was my north star, my hero, my everything, my mentor. And I found out at 25 that he wasn't my biological father. And it was really rough and sort of the bottom fell out from under me because everything that I believed in, everything that I held on to, from not having a mother, I just felt Uh, untethered, I guess is the word.

And that I didn't belong to anyone and that I was Italian and not Hungarian. And my name is Mariska Hargitay. This very Hungarian name. And meanwhile, I've been talking like this my whole life, and everyone's like, are you Italian? I'm like, nope. And so now I'm just happy. Now I sort of go, well, I'm Italian, Hungarian. Why can't we just be all of it? But um, yeah, so what I learned, I learned so much in that movie and it really did redefine me. And I remember my beautiful co-star Kelli Giddish for those of you who watch, um, as for you, she said to me and it was exactly right. She goes, I can't wait to see what you do after you're done with this movie.

Because all of the content in the movie took so much space up, so much internal space of trying to navigate who I was and what I was. And was I worthy and did I belong? ZIP it. Um. And so we're not kidding. Um, you could do anything with comedy, right? You could tell people to shut it, and they laugh, but we're serious. Um, but anyway, I'm kidding. Not really. But, um, so for me, once I realized once I went through the story and went like I had such a complication, complicated relationship with my mom, I'm like, why can't you be normal? Why do you wear a bathing suit and heels all the time? Why do you talk with a high voice?

And it made me just talk with a lower voice and like, put a lot of clothes on. And, um, and then when I actually got curious and went on a mission to find out who she was and why she was and all the different facets that she was, because I was like, I don't let people put me in a box. She got put in a box. And so I wanted to find out who that woman is. And then all the judgment that I had about my biological father. How could he give me up? He didn't love me. He didn't care, I wasn't chosen. I'm a nobody, I don't matter. I was an accident. It goes on and on and on. And then I found out through this film, everyone made the best choice for me.

Everyone made the most loving choice for me. And I had all these things in my head. Fear, lack, not enough, unworthy. And then I realized, no, they loved you so much they made the best choice for you. And somehow my relationship with my mother healed. And I'm so in awe of her now. And I'm so grateful to both fathers. And I just have so much more internal space, so much more internal space. And. I love people, I love them so much. I'm definitely a people person. I love connecting and I think that, um, my vulnerability is my superpower. It's what connects me to people and what makes me feel connected to other people.

Like when women say, I don't want to cry, I'm like, why? I cry and then I'll ******* kill you. But the point is, you know, what I'm just saying is that I allow myself to be all of myself now, and we get to be all of ourselves. And so when that happened, I just felt like I got so much more. And I care more about what I think now than what other people think. And I just assumed the best because I can now and I don't live with all the fear. So that's what the movie gave me is like pieces of myself back, but like real pieces and love and more, um, more maternal energy. Because I, I mean, it's weird to have maternal feelings for your mother.

Your dead mother. But she was only 34 when she died. And I'm so lucky that I'm 62 and still here. I'm so grateful for all of it. I just wish you. I wish I could have been friends with her and done it with her. Tell her one thing. What would you want her to know? Oh. So much. How much I love her, how much I admire her, and how grateful I am to be like her. Congratulations, Marushka. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks.

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