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Mariska Hargitay shares the details of a special moment she shared with her biological father, Nelson Sardelli.
Back to People. The actress revealed in a screening of My mother jayne. In the Hamptonsfilm’s Summerdocs series on Thursday, July 17, she spent Father’s Day this year with Sardelli, 90, and apologized to her.
“It was so magical,” said Hargitay, 61. “He apologized and said, ‘Thank you for forgiving me.’ And I said, ‘Thank you for making the choice you made.’ “
The Law and order: SVU Star added, “So it’s like everyone is right in the end, but I was brought up not to know that.”
Hargitay, who is the daughter of the late Jayne Mansfieldfind out that Sardelli was her biological father – rather than Mickey Hargitay She arose – when she was about 25. The disclosures were published in the documentary about her mother.
Appears on an episode of the “Call Challenge Daddy” podcast in June, Hargitay was honest About what happened when she first discovered that the man she believed was her father was her biological father.
Mariska Hargitay.
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)“I went up to my father’s house and I was crimping hysterical and in a state and he was – what about this metaphor, my dad physically was building me a house. So, I’m driving up to the house he was building and facing me,” he remembered the emotional conversation with Mickey. “It was like, ‘for what are you talking? Are you mad? That’s true.’”
During the conversation, Mickey insisted that his daughter was “Hargitay to the end,” because of her appearance despite the information she had revealed. (Mickey raised Mariska and her two siblings – Mickey Jr.Born 1958, and Zoltán, Born 1960 – After her mother June 1967 Death.)))
Mariska Hargitay revealed in May 2025 that Mickey Hargitay’s father was not her biological father. The late actress’s mother Jayne Mansfield had a brief relationship with Italy singer and comedian Nelson Sardelli – which she confirmed to Vanity Fair is her real father. When Mariska was in his 20s, he saw a picture of Sardelli for (…)
“The irony is that I’m more like my father than anyone in our whole family. I’m a small-Mickey, so it was a very painful moment,” he added. “I say this is the moment I became an adult and it is so visible to me because I was in so much pain. I was so overwhelmed.”
The actress explained that she changed her approach after realizing that the experience was just as painful to Mickey, who died in 2006.
“It doesn’t matter what I feel, I love … and we’ve done here, we’ve done here,” he said. “I pretended to believe it, and we never talked about it again.”
