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‘I wish Dani had told me’: torment of slain exec’s mom

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The heartbroken mom of the vivacious Weight Watchers exec allegedly killed by her boyfriend offered words to live by yesterday for women trapped in abusive relationships.

“Just talk to your family,’’ pleaded Jamie Thomas Bright, 49, to The Post from her home in Danville, Ky. “I wish Danielle had just told me.’’

The mom, a special-ed teacher and hostess at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, said she had just visited daughter Danielle “Dani” Thomas, 27, and Dani’s boyfriend, Jason Bohn, in New York the first weekend in June and saw nothing amiss between them.

“I was there four days. We took the tour around the Hudson on the boat. I went to the ‘Today’ show,” she said, adding Dani seemed her usual, upbeat self.

But days later, on June 7, Thomas walked into a Queens precinct house seeking an order of protection against Bohn, 33, telling cops he had pummeled her in the face and head two weeks earlier.

She was found beaten to death last week, allegedly at the hands of her Ivy League lawyer beau.

Thomas’s body was returned early yesterday to Danville, a town of 16,000 in Kentucky’s idyllic horse country.

She is to be remembered at a Disney-themed service Friday at the local Methodist church.

“My mother decided to have Disney favorites playing in the background,” Bright said of her mother, Juanita Hardgrove, Dani’s “Nana.”

Thomas worked for the Walt Disney Co. for seven years, and Bright said she had hoped Dani would remain in Orlando instead of moving to New York.

“I didn’t want her to leave her job,” which was closer to home, she said.

But Thomas followed Bohn to Queens in March and started working as a senior financial analyst for Weight Watchers in April.

“She was going to do what she wanted. I didn’t want her to move to New York, but that was just the selfish side of me,” Bright recalled.

Thomas quickly fell in love with the Big Apple.

“She loved New York. She said there was always something to do. She loved the diversity,” Bright said. “She loved food trucks and deep-fried Oreos.’’

Dani’s friends from the University of Central Florida and Boyle County HS — where she was sixth in her class of 184 — will be pallbearers.

She’ll be buried next to her grandfather.

Bohn had been charged with assault and harassment for allegedly calling Thomas while she was in the precinct and threatening to “hunt her down like a dog in the street.”

The Columbia and University of Florida law school grad now faces up to 25 years behind bars on charges for her murder.