Mariska Hargitay I have just dropped a huge family bomb that has been buried for over 30 years, the one that rewrites the story of its famous Hollywood education.

The star of “Law & Order: SVU” amazed fans at the Cannes Film Festival with the first of her new documentary “My Mom Jayne”, a deeply personal tribute to her late mother, Screen Siren Jayne Mansfield.

But in the process of honoring his mother, Mariska Hargitay revealed something that no one saw: the man who raised her, the Culturist Mickey Hargitay, is not his biological father.

The breathtaking revelation of the jaw marks the beginnings of the director of Hargitay, and the documentary does not hold back.

Alongside the tragic history of his mother’s death in a horrible car accident in 1967, when Mariska was only three years old, came the revelation that his true father is the former artist of Las Vegas, Nelson Sardelli.

According to his interview with VanityThe truth came out when she was 25 years old. She confronted Mickey, who insisted that he was her father, and they never talked about it again. But the questions persisted. She wondered why she had not had the impression of having shared the same Hungarian roots as her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr.

When she was 30 years old, she finally met Sardelli in Atlantic City, where he performed.

Hargitay said Vanity that she presented herself to him as her daughter. His emotional reaction? “I’ve been waiting for 30 years for that time.” But she was not ready to jump in a father-daughter meeting.

“I don’t want anything. I don’t need anything of you … I have a father, “she said, channeling her siguing intensity. “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be faithful to Mickey. “

The emotional complexity of the discovery on a hidden side of his family weighed heavily.

“Knowing that I live a lie all my life,” she admitted, has become a painful truth to face. Sardelli, now at the end of the 80s, appeared in the documentary with her two daughters, the half-sisters of Mariska.

Finally, Hargitay found peace and came to understand why his mother, Jayne Mansfield, returned to Mickey Hargitay. It was to ensure stability.

Before the premiere of Cannes, she held a private projection in Las Vegas for her new brothers and sisters, and their reaction let her shake.

“They just cried and cried and cried. These two women I love so much. I gave them secrets!” She said. “It’s so heartbreaking for me.”

Now 61 years old, Hargitay says she was finally feeling ready to tell the truth. “I grew up where I was supposed to … I am the daughter of Mickey Hargitay, she is not a lie.” She described the film as “love letter” to the man who raised her, adding: “There is no one from which I got closer to this planet.”

She also talked about her therapy sessions, where she often went every time that conversations saw too close to painful memories … “like a narcoleptic!” She joked.

She first managed to exhaust the exhausting hours of filming “Law & Order: SVU”, while balancing life as a mother of three. But his therapist had another theory. Sudden drowsiness was probably a deeply anchored defense mechanism, protecting it from the confrontation of unresolved trauma.

To unravel, she would need to face the shame linked to her mother symbol of sex and finally confront the truth for a long time hidden from her biological father.