Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay has revealed fears of "reinjuring" her children during the process of opening the "Pandora's box" of her mother's life for the documentary My Mom Jayne . Mariska, who is the youngest child the fifties bombshell, Jayne Mansfield , told the audience at Hello Sunshine's Shine Away event on Saturday, October 11, that she had "pushed away" memories of her mother because she was "somebody that I was afraid and scared of [because] there was just so much hurt and mess and yuck".

Mariska also "didn't want to reinjure myself or my family, quite frankly," but realized in 2020 during the pandemic that she now had the "infrastructure internally" to make a documentary about Jayne, and uncover long-buried memories and belief systems. "I went into somethi

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