Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 6

Benson:
My mother was an English professor. When I was 16, I started dating one of her students. He was a senior, he was 21 years old. And he asked me to marry him. And I said yes. Because I wanted to get away from my mother. She found out and she told me that if I didn't stop seeing him, that she would have him kicked out of college. And I told her that I was moving out. She was half way through a bottle of vodka and she dropped it. It shattered all over the floor. And then she picked up the jagged edge of the bottle and...and she came at me, screaming, 'I'll never let anyone else have you.' And so I kicked her, hard. And then I kicked her again. And she went flying across the room, into the wall. And she slid down to the floor. I'd never hurt her before. I ran out. I was so afraid...

Novak:
You didn't kill your mother, Olivia.

Benson:
I know what it's like to want to. That's how I know Simone Brice. I called her back then. She was a law student, and she helped me survive it.

Novak:
Why didn't Carrie say something?

Benson:
Because then the abuse becomes real. If you keep quiet, you can pretend that it's not.