Mariska Hargitay experienced a scary incident nearly three decades ago and opened up about how it parallels her mother Jayne Mansfield's death. "I was involved in a serious motorcycle accident when I was 34," the Law & Order star, 61, said in an interview with The Shift published on Friday, July 25. "[That] is how old my mother was when she died. The experience was deeply painful on every level." Hargitay shared that following the accident, "something opened up" for her, which led her to where she is now. "It was like I'd crossed a threshold.