New Delhi, June 26 -- Mariska Hargitay has recently shared the deeply personal story of discovering that her late father, actor Mickey Hargitay, was not her biological parent. The "Law & Order: SVU" star, raised by Hargitay alongside her siblings after her mother Jayne Mansfield's tragic 1967 death, recounted the moment she learned the truth during the "Call Her Daddy" podcast. She described driving to a house Mickey was physically building for her, hysterically confronting him with the news. His initial denial and visible panic, the "blood draining out of his face," confirmed her fears, leaving her feeling her identity was "smashed".

"I went up to my dad's house and I was hysterically crying and in a state and he was - how about this me...