Anderson Cooper’s creepy stalker Alex Hausner broke down in tears Tuesday when a Manhattan Supreme Court judge told him he was found mentally unfit for trial.
“The doctors have found you not competent to proceed and if those findings are confirmed you’ll be committed to the Department of Mental Hygiene,” Justice Charles Solomon told Hausner as tears streamed down his face.
The usually mouthy loon was sedate and sad as he scanned the gallery for his mother Lori Hausner who drove from Charlotte, N.C., to support him.
“He needs long-term psychiatric help,” she said. “He believes people are telling him he has to protect Anderson.”
She said her son, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at age 12, has been obsessed with the dreamy newsman for years.
The 38-year-old Astoria man waged a campaign of harassment against Cooper and boyfriend Benjamin Maisani, between January 1 and June 30. He was arrested July 27 and charged with menacing, stalking, harassment and aggravated harassment and has been accused of making unwelcome phone calls and visits to the hunky silver-haired anchor at his work and home since 2008.
In the most recent incident, Hausner showed up at Cooper’s converted firehouse and kicked the red lacquered front door repeatedly yelling. “I swear to f–king God, don’t insult me,” he shouted. “I’m going to f-k you up!”
“I have a crush on Anderson, he is not in any danger,” the deluded Hausner told cops when he was arrested July 27. He’s charged with felony menacing, stalking and harassment.