How A Friendship Formed Between an SVU Star and an Influencer

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A nutrient influencer bought her archetypal home, lone to observe a Law & Order: SVU prima erstwhile lived there. This is their story. Dun-dun.

Carissa Stanton, a fashionable nutrient blogger who posts recipes nether the grip @broccyourbody, moved into her location successful Venice, Calif. past November and started renovations a fewer months after. While the operation workers were demolishing the fireplace, they discovered an envelope containing a handwritten missive and aged photographs. 

"I was astir to propulsion it away, honestly," Carissa admitted to E! News. "I opened it up and determination are each these pictures of this adorable mates that lived successful my location successful the '80s. I was like, 'Oh my gosh, this is the cutest happening ever.'"

Given her level that includes immoderate 379,000 Instagram followers, Carissa wanted to stock the "sweet hidden treasure," but she crossed retired the past sanction due to the fact that "I didn't privation to enactment these random radical connected blast," she explained.

But aft posting the photograph connected her Story, Carissa rapidly discovered the antheral successful the representation was acold from anonymous. 

"I opened my messages to spot what radical are saying and I americium flooded with messages," she recalled. "Everyone is like, 'That's Dann Florek from Law & Order: SVU!" I Googled the sanction and lo and behold he's truthful famous. I had nary idea!"

Florek made his archetypal quality arsenic Captain Donald Cragen connected 1990 and has appeared successful implicit 400 episodes crossed the iconic Law & Order franchise, astir notably on Special Victims Unit. But Stanton had ne'er seen an occurrence of the NBC bid earlier uncovering the missive written by his wife, Karen Florek, portion they were renting the bungalow location successful the precocious '80s. 

Carissa Stanton

After learning who they were, Carissa decided to scope retired to the mates connected Instagram and they rapidly formed a program to get unneurotic for lunch. But earlier they could adjacent docket their archetypal meeting, Carissa had an unexpected run-in with Dann and Karen, who inactive unrecorded successful the aforesaid neighborhood. 

"I ran into them randomly connected a walk," Carissa said. "I was like, 'Wait, are you Dann and Karen? I'm Carissa, I unrecorded successful your house.' Then they came implicit for luncheon and brought a vessel of champagne."

Carissa Stanton

"We were sitting successful my small nook country by the room and Dann told maine helium recovered retired helium got the connection for Law & Order while helium was sitting successful that nonstop spot, which was ace cool," Carissa continued. "They person truthful galore peculiar memories here, which is adorable."

After bonding over food, the mates precocious took Carissa retired to dinner, during which she said Dann asked her "thought-provoking questions" astir her vocation arsenic an influencer, "like however I've changed arsenic a idiosyncratic since I started and however this manner is effecting me, which are things I don't usually deliberation about."

Carissa Stanton

"Everything happens for a crushed and I person truthful overmuch to larn from some Dann and Karen," Carissa continued. "Our paths decidedly crossed for a reason."

Carissa's Instagram followers person go invested successful this "unlikely friendship," with Carissa describing the effect she's received to her Stories astir her interactions with the Floreks as "insane."

"People are like, 'This is the craziest happening I person ever seen. You are surviving my dream! You're having meal with Captain Cragen!'" she said. "So galore radical deliberation it's the coolest happening ever and it benignant of is. People's favourite nutrient blogger gathering this SVU star, it's conscionable hilarious."

While Carissa's parents are large Law & Order fans—"They emotion that we're friends an deliberation it's truly cool"—she inactive hasn't watched an episode, though she's readying to alteration that soon aft making a committedness to a caller pal.

Carissa Stanton

"I told Dann I'm going to ticker it," Carissa shared. "It's connected the to-do list."

As is different get-together with the couple.

"I privation to person them implicit for dinner," she  said. "We're for definite going to get unneurotic again. It's comic due to the fact that we realized we spell to each the aforesaid restaurants and each the aforesaid places, truthful we're vicinity buddies."

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