Mariska Hargitay’s new documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” reveals heartbreaking new details about the night time her mom Jayne Mansfield died.
Whereas taking pictures her directorial debut, the “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star discovered how she was by accident left behind on the scene of the automobile crash which killed her mom and two different individuals.
In elements of the documentary detailed by Individuals journal, Hargitay’s brother, Zoltan Hargitay, recounts the 1967 tragedy.
Wanting again to that night time, Zoltan first wonders why his mom determined to maneuver as much as the entrance seat of the automobile as she argued along with her boyfriend, Sam Brody, whereas her youngsters napped within the again.
“I often think about why she didn’t just stay in the backseat with us,” he says within the movie.
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Zoltan says he remembers his mom comforting him through the drive, then “twenty minutes later, half an hour, I heard her scream so loud, and that was it.”
Within the aftermath of the accident, Mariska and Zoltan’s older brother, Mickey Hargitay Jr., remembers he thought he noticed his mom sitting within the entrance seat of the automobile he was in, solely to appreciate he was “in a car with a blonde-haired woman who had helped rescue the children.”
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It was Zoltan nevertheless, when he awakened and seen his youthful sister Mariska, then solely 3 years outdated, was not within the automobile with them. He requested the adults the place she was, and the group circled again to the accident to search out her.
In keeping with the kids’s stepmother, Ellen Hargitay, the adults initially missed Mariska as a result of she had been lodged beneath the passenger seat with a head damage.
“Thank God Zolie woke up,” the Hargitays’ stepmom says within the movie.
“My Mom Jayne” premiered final Thursday through the Tribeca Movie Competition, and can premiere on HBO and Max on June 27.
