Mariska Hargitay was just three years old when she cheated death in a horror car crash which killed her movie star mother Jayne Mansfield and two others.
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress, who turns 57 this weekend, has admitted the accident and loss of her mum is the "is the scar of my soul" and made her the person she is today.
It was in 1967 when Jayne, 34, and her boyfriend Sam Brody were travelling to New Orleans, with her three children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska.
Jayne had made an appearance at a nightclub in Biloxi, Mississippi and needed to make a dash to New Orleans overnight to make it in time for a TV appearance the next day.
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