OMG! Mariska Hargitay Says Law & Order’s Olivia Has ‘Been in Love’ With Elliot for ‘Many a Year’

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Be still our shipper hearts! After a lengthy will-they-or-won’t they relationship on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler are endgame, show star Mariska Hargitay has confirmed.“We’re trying to figure out what to do [on the show].

He is free, and I think he’s got eyes for me,” Hargitay, 57, admitted about the two characters on the Tuesday, January 18, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, noting that Stabler (Christopher Meloni) is now available after the death of his wife (Isabel Gillies). “But Olivia Benson is hurt!

I mean, he left me in a lurch for 10 years. She’s frightened.”She continued at the time: “The energy’s there. Olivia’s been in love with him for many a year and I think that we are slowly finding our way back to it, but I want to give him the amount of time he needs to grieve Kathy Stabler.”After host Drew Barrymore said the earth would “shake” when the two characters finally got together after 25 years of teasing, the California native squealed.Upon SVU’s premiere in September 1999, Benson and Stabler had a purely platonic relationship as they worked together as detectives in New York City.

However, many fans eagerly hoped there was something more between the two.While the former costars costarred on SVU for more than a decade, Meloni, 60, eventually left the show in season 12, which aired in 2011.