She told him, “I don’t need anything from you…I have a dad,” out of loyalty to Mickey. However, she eventually got to know Sardelli and his daughters — her half-sisters — and grew closer to them. She decided to reveal the truth decades later to “unburden” them all, and so that she could stop keeping her sisters a secret. Still: “I grew up where I was supposed to, and I do know that everyone made the best choice for me,” she said. “I’m Mickey Hargitay’s daughter — that is not a lie.”
