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Mariska Hargitay Recalls Meeting Husband Peter Hermann: 'Knees Getting Weak'

Mariska Hargitay recalled the first time she saw her now-husband, Peter Hermann, whom she wed in 2004

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images“My knees getting weak,” Hargitay, 60, recalled to Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday, June 4, of what stuck in her mind from their initial meeting. Hargitay met Hermann, now 56, when he made a guest appearance as Trevor Langan on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 3 episode “Monogamy” in 2002. “I cried because I was feeling something that I’d never felt before, but I kind of knew what it was … when you’re a little girl, everyone goes, ‘When you’re in love, you’ll know.’ And I did,” she explained during a 2019 appearance on Today With Hoda & Jenna.

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