On a June 26 look on The View to advertise her new HBO documentary My Mother Jayne, Mariska Hargitay revealed that studying that Mickey Hargitay — her mom Jayne Mansfield‘s ex-husband and the person who raised her and her siblings after Mansfield’s tragic 1967 dying — was not her organic father was a crushing expertise.
“It was brutal,” the Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit star mentioned. “Like I say within the movie, it actually collapsed me and shattered me as a result of I recognized with my father and having misplaced my mom so younger, I simply felt untethered and who did I belong to? I used to be like … I actually had an id disaster.”