Laravel duplicate field in accessor

I have a created_at field in my table. In most cases, when I want to read something from that table, I'd like the created_at to be formatted in a readable way (f.e. "5 hours ago").

I can do that with an accessor:

public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value){
    return Carbon::parse($value)->diffForHumans();
}

But there are cases where I want the original date, which isn't possible with this solution.

Is there a way I can get both the original date and the formatted date automatically? I was thinking to create a separate accessor "getReadableCreatedAt" but I can't find a way to do it.

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