Mariska Hargitay She just dropped a massive family bomb that was buried for more than 30 years, the one who transcribes the narrative about his famous Hollywood upbringing.

"Law and Row: The all" star stunes fans at Cannes Film Festival with the Prime Minister of his new documentary "My Mom Jayne," a deep personal honor to her late mother, screen siren Jayne Mansfield.

But in the process of honor mom, Mariska Hargitay revealed something that no one saw him coming: the man who raised, Bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay, was not her biological father.

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In addition to the tragic story about the death of her mother in 1967. year, when Mariska was only three years old, there was a revelation that her real father was a former Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli.

According to her interview with Vanity fairThe truth came out when she was 25 years old. She faced Mickey, who insisted that he was her father, and they never talked about it again. But the questions have kept. She wondered why she didn't feel like she shared the same Hungarian roots as her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr.

When she turned 30, she finally met Sardelli in Atlantic City, where he performed.

Hargitay said Vanity fair To introduce himself to himself as a daughter. His emotional reaction? "I waited for 30 years for this moment." But she wasn't ready to jump in in the steppeen in the meeting.

"I don't want anything. I don't need anything from you ... I have Dad," he reportedly told him, directing her, directing her signature all intensity. "There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey."

The emotional complexity of revealing the hidden side of its family struggled.

"Knowing that I live a lie my whole life," she admitted, became a painful truth for dealing. Sardelli, now in the late 80s, appears in the documentary together with his two daughters, Marish half-sisters.

In the end, Hargitay considered peace and came to understand why her mother, Jayne Mansfield, returned to Mickey Hargitay. It was to provide stability.

Before Prime Minister in Cannes, she held a private screening in Las Vegas for his newborn brothers and their reaction left her earthquake.

"They just cried and cried and cried. Those two women I love so much. I made them secrets!" She said. "I'm so my heart."

Now 61, Hargitay says she finally felt ready to tell the truth. "I grew up where I needed ... I'm Mickey Hargitay daughter, it's not a lie." She called the film "Love Letter" to the man who raised it, adding it, "There is no one if I was closer to this planet."

She also opened her therapy sessions, where she would often go to sleep whenever conversations too close to painful memories ... "like a narcoleptic!" She joke.

At first she embarked on exhausting from hardening hours of recording "Law and Order: all", as long as he balances life as a mother three. But her therapist had another theory. A sudden lullness was probably a deep embedded defense mechanism, protecting her from facing unresolved trauma.

To pierce himself, she should face embarrassment related to her sex symbol and eventually faced a long-hidden truth about his biological father.