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Jew-bash ‘addict’

Famed designer John Galliano insists he’s not a hateful bigot — just a drunken, pill-popping ad dict.

The loony fashionista told a Paris court yester day he has no memory of his anti-Semitic diatribes and blamed booze, barbi turates and sleeping pills for the convenient black out.

“I have a triple addic tion. I’m a recovering al coholic and a recovering addict,” said Galliano, who has been charged with “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnic ity.”

If convicted, he could face up to six months be hind bars and be slapped with $32,175 in fines.

He’s already lost his job as head of the famed fash ion house Christian Dior.

The 50-year-old British designer was captured on video spewing hateful rants directed at cafe pa trons on Feb. 24, saying, “People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f- -king gassed.”

Later, he was recorded by an onlooker declaring, “I love Hitler.”

Galliano dressed conserva tively, by his standards, for court, wearing a black shirt with a polka-dot neckerchief. He sported his usual pencil mustache and long hair.

The designer said his descent into addiction could be traced to the 2005 death of his father and the 2007 passing of a trusted aide.

No matter how successful he was in fashion, Galliano said he needed booze to get by, “After every creative high, I would crash and the alcohol helped me,” he said.

The designer said he didn’t tell cops about his addictions because “I was in denial. I was still taking those pills and alcohol.”

The court played a video of one of his tirades, and Galliano said, metaphorically, the man on tape wasn’t him.

“These are not views that I hold or believe in,” he said.

“In the video, I see someone who needs help, who’s vulnerable. It’s the shell of John Galliano. I see someone who’s been pushed to the edge.”

Galliano testified he’s since done rehab stints in Arizona and Switzerland and apologized for his weird rants.

“All my life, I’ve fought against prejudice and intolerance and discrimination because I have been subjected to it myself,” Galliano said without further explanation. “I apologize for the sadness that this affair has caused, and I apologize to the court as well.”

david.li@nypost.com