Mariska Hargitay is finally ready to share a lifelong family secret.
In her new documentary “My Mom Jayne,” the “Law & Order: SVU” star reveals how she learned that the man who raised her, bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay, was not her biological father.
“He was my everything, my idol. He loved me so much, and I knew it,” Hargitay told Vanity Fair. “I also knew something else. I just didn’t know what I knew.”
Mickey raised the future television actor and her siblings after the tragic death of their mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, in 1967.
Though she adored her father, Hargitay said she always felt different from her siblings.
