Mariska Hargitay Admits She Cried When She Realized She’d Marry Her Husband Peter Hermann On Their Very First Date: ‘I Love Him’

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Mariska Hargitay is opening up about how she met her husband of 17 years, Peter Hermann. Hargitay, who stars in “Law & Order: SVU” with Hermann, chats with Drew Barrymore on Tuesday’s episode of Global’s “Drew Barrymore Show”, about when she first set eyes on her other half, whom she married in 2004.

As Barrymore excitedly asks whether it was love at first sight, the actress shares: “I was nervous and I heard he was German and I didn’t know what to do so I said, this is so embarrassing, I said, ‘So you’re a kraut.’ And he goes like this, ‘That’s funny.’ And I went, ‘Oh my God.’ And then Chris Meloni is like, ‘No.’” READ MORE: Mariska Hargitay Shuts Down Singer During ‘SVU’ Location Shoot In Greenwich Village Hargitay adds, “He’s so funny and so different than anyone I ever met and we had such a sort of beautiful getting to know each other and learning how to see each other and beautiful courtship and here we are 17 years married, 19 years in and still learning about each other every day.” She goes on to say of being at work when they met, “On the first day I was so nervous and I felt very, he was very handsome and it was distracting.

And then he would come back the other days and all the producers would look at me and give me eyes and stuff… I had never been like that to anyone ever and it was funny because you know I was single. “I was 35, and my friends are like, ‘Mariska you need to get out more nobody is just going to show up on your show and ask you to marry them.’… Do you know where our first date was?

It’s a little too good to be true. Our first date he asked me to go to church with him. And I was moving and I said, ‘Peter, I would love to but not today I am moving today.’ He was like, ‘Oh come on it’s an