The man Mariska Hargitay called dad wasn’t her biological father — here’s who really was

carries a unique emotional weight.

The person who eventually discovers the truth may feel as though everyone else had access to part of their identity before they did.

For Mariska, the revelation involved not only learning something new but confronting the fact that it had remained unspoken.

That secrecy became part of what she needed to process.

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