Mariska Hargitay is reflecting on how she got through some of the traumas of her painful childhood.
The Law & Order: SVU star was only three years old when in 1967, her mother Jayne Mansfield , then only 36 years old, died in a car crash in Biloxi, Mississippi.
The Olivia Benson actress, whose father was Mickey Hargitay , was in the car, a 1966 Buick Electra 225, when it crashed head-on at high speed to the back of a tractor trailer, instantly killing her mom along with her attorney Sam Brody and their driver Ronnie Harrison , who was 20 at the time. Mariska and her brothers Mickey Jr . and Zoltan were in the back of the car, and had minor injuries.
During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Wednesday, October 23, Mariska reflected about how turning 60 helped her overcome some of her childhood trauma.
Noting how “60 is the new 50,” she first shared: “I think as we age, we step into our power, our focus of what’s important narrows down, and we get time and space back. I think that the gift that I have is clarity.”