Each in her upcoming documentary My Mother Jayne, and a latest episode of the Name Her Daddy podcast, actress Mariska Hargitay, 61, opened up about discovering out that Mickey Hargitay — the ex-husband of her mom, Jayne Mansfield, who raised Mariska and her siblings after her mom’s premature dying in 1967 — was not her precise organic father. The Regulation and Order: SVU actress solely found that Nelson Sardelli was her start father after going by means of a few of her mom’s memorabilia.
Based on US Journal, Hargitay stated after discovering Sardelli’s identify amongst her mom’s issues, “I knew in a single second. I don’t know [how]. I feel my entire life, all of the hundreds of thousands of moments … little fragments of a reminiscence of a second of issues I caught that went into my unconscious. Then I stated, ‘Who’s Nelson?’ I noticed the blood drain out of [Mickey Hargitay’s] face and he type of panicked and turned white and he stated, ‘Oh, it’s most likely not true, it’s most likely not true.’ And that’s after I knew.”