Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay went on an emotional journey to learn more about her mother, Jayne Mansfield, in the new documentary My Mom Jayne, which she also directed. Hargitay was only 3 years old when her mother was killed in a car accident in Louisiana.

I couldn’t believe that this truth, this bombshell for me, didn’t ever come to light," says the ‘Law & Order: SVU’ star about going public with her biological father’s identity in an HBO documentary on her mother,

In her new film, 'My Mom Jayne,' Mariska Hargitay reveals that she can finally see traces of herself in her late mother, Jayne Mansfield, which also extends to Hargitay's longest-running role as Olivi