Mariska Hargitay’s new documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” reveals heartbreaking new information about the night her mother Jayne Mansfield died. While shooting her directorial debut, the “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star learned how she was accidentally left behind at the scene of the car crash which killed her mother and two other people.

At age 3, a wounded Mariska Hargitay was nearly abandoned at the scene of the car crash that killed her famous mother, Jayne Mansfield, a new documentary reveals. In “My Mom Jayne,” Hargitay’s personal project that had its US premiere Friday at Carnegie Hall as part of the Tribeca Festival,

SVU star Mariska Hargitay was left behind at the scene of the fatal car wreck that killed her mother, Jayne Mansfield