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Klum’s ex saves rocker Chris

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ROCKER Chris Cornell was rescued from an accused stalker on Wednesday night by Heidi Klum’s ex-beau and bodyguard, Martin Kirsten, Page Six has exclusivel­y learned.

Sources said alleged obsessed Cornell fan Jessica Robbins planned to propose to the rocker onstage before being arrested at the Louisville Palace. Sources told us Robbins bought a ticket to the show by wearing a disguise and had a “stolen passport” at the time of her arrest.

The FBI had warned Cornell’s team on May 24 that Robbins had “removed her court-ordered GPS ankle monitor and failed to appear in NYC federal court” after a previous bust for “interstate stalking” of Cornell. Sources told us suspicions were raised this week when “a female bought a ticket for the [Louisville, Ky.,] show wearing big sunglasses and a scarf around her head — in 88degree weather. She also paid cash . . . The box office alerted security.”

Reports said Robbins was arrested a night later “feet from” the venue. But a source told us, “She got into the gig as a ticket holder . . . The tour manager didn’t recognize her . . . He nearly let her propose to Chris onstage!” But before she could pop the kooky question, eagle-eyed Kirsten, on tour to protect Cornell, spotted Robbins, we’re told.

Robbins was then detained by an officer outside the venue, a source told us, and she “looked at security and said, ‘You don’t know who the f- - k I am, do you?’ ” The source said Robbins told security that the phone Cornell keeps onstage (which belonged to Jeff Buckley) was so that “Chris could contact her.” And that she “told security to take her ring . . . and give it to Chris . . . She said the ring will sort it all out.”

A 2014 federal complaint against Robbins said Cornell and wife Vicky Karayianni­s pulled their kids from public school out of fear of Robbins, who posted more than 100 obsessive messages a day online, including of Vicky: “I forgive her, but I’m done playing games with her, she is not going to be able to hurt him ever again by the time I’m done with her.” An FBI rep said only that Robbins was in custody and will be extradited to NYC.

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