Mariska Hargitay reveals how she found her real father’s identity

Mariska Hargitay has been promoting her first documentary called My Mom Jayne which explores the life of the iconic actress and her mother.

In the documentary, it is revealed that Hargitay found that the man who had raised her was not her biological father.

Jayne Mansfield was killed in 1967 in a car collision while Hargitay and her two siblings were in the car.

She explained that she had been talking to the head of her mother’s fan club when the truth was revealed, "He’s showing me all these photos. He’s showing me whatever it is, dresses that she had that he’d collected, earrings that she wore, things from movies from the movie set, props or whatever, and then he says to me, 'Do you want to see a picture of Nelson?'"

The actress remarked, "I just looked at him, and this jolt went through my body, and I said, 'Who's Nelson?' And then I knew in one second."

In the documentary, she continues, "That’s when like I think the blood just drained out of his face and he sort of went white as a ghost and he looked at me panicked and he said, ‘Well, it’s probably not true.’”

Hargitay questioned, "And I think that (Gray) couldn’t believe that I didn’t know. I was 25, how could I not know?"

"It was like the floor fell out from underneath me. Just the bottom dropped out of everything. It was like my infrastructure dissolved and life as I knew it was irrevocably changed,” she admitted.

The actress said she was worried she would crash her car "because I was so not present. I was totally dissociated and out of my body, and I got to my brother’s house. I didn’t even know how I got there, but I knew that I shouldn’t be driving. It was crazy."

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