Mariska Hargitay Opens Up About Discovering the Truth About Her Biological Father

Mariska Hargitay is getting candid about family secret she’s been hiding.

The 61-year-old actress and daughter of the late Jayne Mansfield was a guest on the June 25 episode of Alex Cooper‘s podcast, Call Her Daddy.

While on the podcast, Mariska opened up about a family secret she had been hiding for years and finally decided to share with the public with the release of her documentary, My Mom Jayne.

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In the documentary, Mariska revealed that her biological father was not actually Mickey Hargitay and was instead Nelson Sardelli.

“I went up to my dad’s house and I was hysterically crying and in a state and he was — how about this metaphor, my dad was physically building me a house. So, I drive up to the house that he is building me and confront him,” Mariska recalled on the podcast episode and shared that Mickey denied the claim that he wasn’t her father.

Mariska went on to share that she and Mickey never spoke of it again after their one discussion. She said on the podcast, “I pretended that I believed him, and we never spoke of it again.”

The actress previously told Vanity Fair about her decision to let things go and said, “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.”

Watch Mariska‘s full podcast interview below and see what she said about her future on Law & Order: SVU.