This was hair-raising — even for Wolverine.
Actor Hugh Jackman says his encounter with a razor-wielding fan at West Village gym left him shaken – but the hunky “X-Men” actor most feared for his family.
The Aussie native and longtime New Yorker, who plays the sharp-clawed character in the “X-Men” movies, was working out at Gotham Gym on Washington Street at about 8 a.m. Saturday when Kathleen Thurston, 47, bushwhacked him.
“It was obviously frightening,” Jackman told The Post outside his home this morning.
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It wasn’t Thurston’s first time stalking the 44-year-old Australian hunk – she once showed up at the luxe West Village home that Jackman shares with actress wife Deborra-Lee Furness, sources said.
Jackman told cops he also has seen her outside 7-year-old daughter Ava’s elementary school in Manhattan.
“For me, my main concern is for my family,” Jackman said today. “I just hope the woman gets the help she needs.”
Asked if he was shaken up by the invasion, the actor said, “Yeah, a little.”
The Post reported exclusively today how the deranged female stalker burst into his gym while he was pumping iron and threw an electric razor filled with her pubic hair at him.
She was screaming “I love you!” as a staffer dragged her away from the star, sources said.
Police said Thurston has no prior criminal history, and Jackman didn’t have a restraining order against her.
The blond stalker – who is awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court – was wearing khaki pants and a blue hoodie and was hysterically sobbing as she slipped past the check-in desk at the tiny gym and made a beeline for the actor, said Gotham Gym trainer Mike Castle, 35.
“She was crying,” said Castle, who was in the facility’s boxing ring. “I physically removed her from the place, then I called the cops.”
Thurston, whose listed address is a Harlem shelter for the mentally ill, shouted her desperate declaration of love for Jackman, then reached into her waistband and launched the dirty razor at him.
Jackman thought the unhinged woman was grabbing for a gun or a knife, said one police source.
He backed away as soon as she made a move for her nether regions.
Cops caught up with Thurston a few blocks away at West 14th Street and Eighth Avenue, where she was arrested for stalking and hauled to the 6th Precinct station house.
The NYPD Crime Scene Unit recovered the weapon and had to pick the hairs out of it to match them with her DNA, a source added.
Gotham Gym staffer David Rivera, 20, said, “You wouldn’t expect someone coming in here and looking to come after you like that.
“To just have someone invade his personal space like that is not OK.”
Jackman, a gym rat, was photographed pumping iron earlier this month — likely as he prepped for “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”
Additional reporting by Kate Briquelet