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JULIE CLEARS THROAT DOC FROM LIABILITY

Julie Andrews has reportedly dropped her lawsuit against a Manhattan throat doctor she had accused of ruining her voice.

“I am delighted to have settled this case in a favorable manner,” Andrews said in a statement reported in today’s New York Times.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Andrews, 64, filed the suit last December against Dr. Scott M. Kessler and another doctor, Dr. Jeffrey Libin, at Mount Sinai Medical Center. But Kessler was the only defendant left in the suit, because Andrews dropped her case against Libin and Mount Sinai.

It was the second time Libin and Kessler had been accused of botching throat surgery.

They were also accused by famed Metropolitan Opera diva Theresa Stratas, who accused the doctors of bungling a 1995 nose job and wrecking her singing career.

Andrews – best known for starring roles in “Mary Poppins” in 1964 and “The Sound of Music” in 1965 – was starring in “Victor/Victoria” on Broadway three years ago when she underwent surgery to have non-cancerous nodules removed from her throat.

But the surgery ruined Andrews’ singing voice.

Her husband, Blake Edwards, called Andrews’ inability to sing “an absolute tragedy that would make you weep.”