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After decades spent coming to terms with her past and wanting to learn more about the mother she doesn't remember, Mariska has made a remarkable documentary called My Mom Jane.

Did you feel that early on, this sense of loss and longing?

It's exhausting.

The voice which she put on, it's not who she was.

Your mom was three years old and in a car when her father died of a heart attack.

And then you were in the car three years old when your mom was killed in a car crash.

That was the age your mom was when she died.

In what way?

Was it both surviving an accident but also living past the age that your mom had been?

You always thought 34 was going to be it.

From when you were three years old?

Some strangers took your siblings out of the car.

They were taken to the hospital.

And then one of your brothers said... Where's my baby sister?

And you were still in the vehicle?

Do you remember that?

You had no idea you were doing that?

We're going to take a quick break.

Coming up, I talk with Mariska about the discovery she made about her father, Mickey Hargitay, and about his death in 2006.