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She didn’t die! ‘Parenthood’ health scare

The Braverman clan — and fans of “Parenthood” — experienced a Christmas miracle last night.

In previews leading up to last night’s episode, mother-of-three Kristina Braverman (played by Monica Potter) is shown reacting poorly to chemotherapy for the breast cancer she was diagnosed with earlier this season.

Her husband, Adam (Peter Krause), sits by her hospital bed and watches a farewell video Kristina had recorded for their kids and then begs his unconscious wife, “Don’t leave us.”

In the episode, we learn that Kristina is experiencing septic shock, a reaction to the chemo. But in true, prime-time holiday fashion, she recovers overnight and wakes up feeling “like a thousand bucks” on Christmas Day, just in time for the whole family to celebrate together at her hospital bedside.

Kristina’s story line was inspired by showrunner Jason Katims’ wife, who finished treatment for breast cancer two years ago.

“What I found when my wife went through it was that the experience was full of a lot of curveballs that you weren’t expecting, and it was a lot more complicated and scary than you thought it was going to be at the beginning,” Katims told The Post. “While not everything that happened in my real life happens in this story line, we try to be accurate to the experience of feeling like it’s not just a straight line.”

Katims says that he didn’t expect the will-she-or-won’t-she-die fan chatter that preceded the episode.

“I guess what I didn’t consider that I should have is that that story would be teased in promos,” Katims said. “I honestly didn’t think that would be something people were talking about.”

Kristina isn’t out of the woods yet, Katims says.

“What happens [in the episode] isn’t about cancer, it’s about the chemo. She’s out of the woods on that end of it, but she still hasn’t finished her treatment,” he said.

“That’s one of the things about going through the treatment of cancer. Once you finish that treatment, that’s a scary moment, because you’re doing everything you can to fight it, but then it’s over, and you’re like, ‘Now what?’ ”