Overview

• The film discloses that Hargitay kept secret for more than three decades that her birth father is Italian singer Nelson Sardelli rather than Mickey Hargitay.
• She recounts learning the truth at age 25 when Jayne Mansfield superfan Sabin Gray showed her a photo of Sardelli, triggering an instinctive certainty she describes as “DNA talking to DNA.”
• Hargitay recalls confronting Mickey Hargitay at a house he was building for her, where he denied paternity and she chose to preserve their bond by accepting his response.
• My Mom Jayne also uses archival footage and interviews to examine Hargitay’s longstanding desire to understand her late mother Jayne Mansfield beyond her public persona.
• Nelson Sardelli, featured in the documentary, said he was “thrilled” by its release while Hargitay’s siblings publicly affirmed their support for her decision to tell this story.