Georgina Bloomberg (Angel Chevrestt)
OUCH! Skater and Wheaties-box star Joey Cheek (above left) has ended it with Georgina Bloomberg (above right with dad Mike), now healing after an equestrian accident. (
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She’s mending a fractured spine — and now a broken heart.
Four days after Mayor Bloomberg’s daughter Georgina took a terrifying spill from a horse that left her with a concussion and a fractured vertebra, the billionairess’s boyfriend dumped her.
Olympic speed-skating gold-medalist Joey Cheek, who graced the cover of a Wheaties box, fell for Hizzoner’s youngest daughter at a Fashion’s Night Out event in September.
They hit off immediately, and Georgina, 27, who describes herself as an independent and “not very emotional person,” fell hard for the hunky 31-year-old Southerner.
But days after the accident that left Georgina — a professional show jumper — hobbling around her upstate horse farm with a cane and zoned out on painkillers, Cheek called it quits.
“The guy I was totally in love with decided that now would be an appropriate time to break up with me, which took me by surprise,” Georgina said while relaxing in her Nolita penthouse.
“I’m really surprised anyone would be so insensitive as to do it while I am down and out,” she told The Post. “It was pretty shocking, because I thought he was a really nice guy.”
Georgina said she was in town for one night on a “mental-health break” and planned to go out for dinner with friends to Essex Restaurant on the Lower East Side before heading back to the farm to continue her recovery.
After she was knocked unconscious, suffering the second concussion of her horse-riding career, during a Nov. 5 equestrian competition in Syracuse, Georgina’s doctor told her to rest her mind by not becoming overly emotional and to avoid strenuous reading.
“The timing of the break-up makes it harder, because I can’t do anything but sit here, and I was already feeling sorry for myself,” she said. “Anytime you open up to someone and you choose to trust them and include them in your life, and they turn around and say they don’t want to be part of it — that sucks.”
The NYU grad admits she wanted more from Cheek, a senior at Princeton University.
“I could have seen this going forward, but he didn’t. I think he thought I had trust issues, or that I wasn’t a very nice person, and that we weren’t a good match. At the end of the day, I don’t want to be with someone who doesn’t want to be with me.”
But the optimistic Georgina said she won’t hold a grudge forever. “We’ll probably be friends at some point down the line,” she said.
Since her accident, Mayor Bloomberg, whom Georgina said she does not see very often, has “called almost every single day, and that’s pretty much all anyone can really do.”
As for dating, “you move on and make the best of it,” she said. “There are plenty of guys out there, and there are worse things in the world than being dumped.”