Mariska Hargitay Explains Why She Could Not Watch Law & Order: SVU’s 500th Episode

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A milestone she’s not ready to relive. Mariska Hargitay has hit a benchmark that few TV stars ever dream of as her show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, airs its 500th episode, but she has her reasons for not tuning in.“They sent me the link so many times and I was actually too nervous to watch it,” the actress, 57, confessed during her Wednesday, October 20, appearance on Live With Kelly and Ryan.Hargitay knows her character inside and out after playing her for 23 seasons, but the gravity of shooting such a monumental episode weighed on her. “Obviously I’ve been doing this show for so long and Olivia Benson is in me, but I think that the idea of the 500th episode was so much pressure or something on me,” she shared. “And I was so