Mariska Hargitay reveals heartbreaking way she discovered ‘extraordinarily painful’ family secret

Mariska Hargitay reveals heartbreaking way she discovered ‘extraordinarily painful’ family secret

and then he says to me “Do you want to see a picture of Nelson?” And I just looked at him and this jolt went through my body and then I said “Who’s Nelson?” And then he you know I saw the drain blood out drain out of his face and he sort of panicked and turned white and then he said you know he panicked and he said “Oh it’s probably not true it’s probably not true.” And that’s when I knew

Mariska Hargitay will never forget the moment she discovered her biological dad — or the heartbreaking way she found out.

The actress recalled “being invited to this guy’s house,” explaining on Wednesday’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast that the “lovely” and “obsessed” man was head of her late mother Jayne Mansfield‘s fan club.

The “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star, 61, went to see his “overwhelming” and “huge” collection “of memorabilia and movie posters and everything related to” the movie star, who died in 1967 at age 34.

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