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Wife: Gooden left kids high and dry

Former Mets and Yankees ace pitcher Dwight “Doc” Gooden has abandoned his family — leaving his two kids scrounging to survive on public assistance and food stamps, his wife told The Post.

Monique Gooden said she and her children — 5-year-old son Dylan and 4-month-old daughter Milan — are living with her parents in their home in Columbia, Md., as the troubled 1985 National League Cy Young Award winner is nowhere to be found.

“He’s left us with no money,” his slighted spouse said. “When I got here to Maryland, I had to go apply for social services, food stamps and health insurance for the kids. He has offered no financial assistance to us.”

Monique, a former flight attendant, said she is unaware of her estranged husband’s whereabouts — only that the 1984 National League Rookie of the Year had been holed up in a hotel somewhere in New Jersey back in May.

The couple wed in January 2009, but Monique claims they haven’t lived together since May 1.

“You know what, right now I’m so stressed, I’ve been so stressed that every day has been a struggle for me,” she said. “I just want support for the kids at this time . . . I just want to take care of them.”

The Mets are scheduled to honor the 45-year-old four-time All-Star — who retired in 2001 — as one of four inductees into the team’s Hall of Fame next weekend.

Monique said her husband’s latest downward spiral began March 23 when he crashed into another car while allegedly driving under the influence of drugs with his son in the car.

He was hit with a slew of charges and released on his own recognizance.

Since then, Monique said, things only got worse — claiming her husband stopped paying bills.

Monique said she last saw her husband on June 22 in Bergen County Family Court. The couple is due back in court in mid-August.

Dwight, who played on World Series champions with the Mets in 1986 and the Yankees in 1996 and 2000, could not be reached for comment.

A timeline of Dwight “Doc” Gooden’s ups and downs with estranged wife Monique.

* March 13, 2005: Gooden punches fiancée Monique Moore after she throws a telephone at his head.

* Jan. 24, 2009: Gooden marries Monique.

* March 2010: Gooden and Monique celebrate the birth of their daughter, Milan.

* March 23: Gooden is busted and charged with driving under the influence of drugs after a car accident with son Dylan in back seat.

* May 1: Gooden and his wife stop living together.

* Mid-June: Monique grabs Dylan and Milan and heads to Maryland to stay with her folks.

* June 22: Last time Monique saw Gooden.

tbontemps@nypost.com