Mariska Hargitay Drops 30-Year Bombshell Secret About Her Real Father

Mariska Hargitey It dropped a massive family bomb that has been buried for over 30 years, a rewrite of her famous Hollywood upbringing story.

The “Law & Order: SVU” star surprised fans at the Cannes Film Festival. The premiere of her new documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” is a deep personal homage to her late mother, Screen Eren Jayne Mansfield.

However, in the process of honoring her mother, Mariska Hargitay reveals something no one has ever seen.

Drops his chin reveals Harugitay’s debut as feature film director is made, and he will not refrain from documentary.

In addition to the tragic tale of her mother’s death in a terrifying car accident in 1967, when Mariska was only three years old, there is a revelation that her real father is former Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Saldelli.

According to her interview Vanity FairThe truth came out when she was 25 years old. She confronts Mickey and he claims he is her father and they never talk about it again. However, the questions remained. She wondered why she never felt that she shared the same Hungarian roots as her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr.

When she turned 30, she finally met Saldelli in Atlantic City.

Hargitay said Vanity Fair That she introduced him as his daughter. His emotional reaction? “I’ve been waiting 30 years at this moment.” But she wasn’t ready to jump into the reunion of her father’s daughter.

“I don’t want anything. I don’t need anything from you… I have a dad,” she reportedly said, channeling his signature SVU strength. “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.”

The emotional complexity of discovering hidden sides of her family has become heavier.

“I know I’ll be lying forever,” she admitted. Now in the late 80s, Saldelli appears in the documentary along with her two daughters, the half sister Mariska.

Eventually, Harugitay finds peace and realizes why her mother, Jane Mansfield, returned to Mickey Harugitay. It was to provide stability.

Before the Cannes premiere, she held a private screening in Las Vegas for her new brother, and their reactions shook her.

“They just wept and wept. These two women I love so much. I kept them a secret!” she said. “That’s so heartbreaking for me.”

Harugitay, 61, says he felt ready to finally tell the truth. “I grew up where I was supposed to do that… I’m Mickey Hargitay’s daughter. That’s not a lie.” She called the film a “love letter” to the man who raised her, adding, “No one was approaching this planet.”

She was also open about therapy sessions. There, whenever the conversation gets too close to painful memories, he often falls asleep about his sleep… “Like a narcoleptic!” she joked.

She initially was exhausted from the harsh times she filmed Law and Order: SVU and was balanced by her life as a mother of three. But her therapist had another theory. Sudden sleepiness was probably a deeply ingrained defense mechanism, protecting her from confronting unresolved trauma.

To break through it, she must face shame tied to a sexually symbolic mother and ultimately confront the long-standing truth about her biological father.

“My Mother Jane” also reflects the iconic status of the Golden Globe-winning actress and her mother as a sex symbol in the 1950s.

Jane, her partner Sam Brody, and their driver, were instantly killed when their car was slammed by a tractor trailer in Biloxi, Mississippi. Miraculously, Mariska and her two brothers were sleeping in the back seat and survived with minor injuries.

Jane left five children behind. Jane Marie (from her first marriage to Paul Mansfield), Miklos, Zoltan, Mariska (with Mickey Hargitay) and Antonio (with her third husband, Matt Simber).

In “My Mother Jayne,” Hargitay not only celebrates Hollywood legends, but also ultimately lifts up the family secret curtains she’s been holding for decades.