My followers have been ‘an excessive amount of’ for me to deal with

Lovestruck followers didn’t simply slide into Jeremy Meeks’ DMs over the previous few years — they confirmed as much as jail.

The so-called “Hot Felon,” whose smoldering mugshot broke the web again in 2014, stated that in a single day fame got here with an sudden draw back: obsessed admirers hijacking restricted jail go to slots — and shutting out the one that mattered most.

The blue-eyed unhealthy boy shot to infamy after Stockton, Calif. cops posted his mugshot throughout a 2014 gang sweep — unintentionally launching the thirst lure seen around the globe.

Within hours, the picture racked up tens of 1000’s of likes, spawned the hashtag #FelonCrushFriday and turned Meeks into an in a single day web obsession.

“I was probably getting 300 letters a day, and it was just too much,” Meeks, now 42, recalled on the “Inside True Crime” podcast earlier this week.

“I’m getting naked pictures, I’m getting money orders,” he advised host Matthew Cox. “All kind of money’s being sent in.”

The consideration didn’t simply flood his mailbox — it flipped his life.

Modeling businesses got here calling whereas he was nonetheless behind bars, and after his 2016 launch, Meeks traded jail blues for designer threads, finally strutting runways at New York Fashion Week.

According to the previous Crips gang member, strangers started snatching up his two weekly customer slots at Sacramento County Jail — typically displaying up unannounced and leaving his family locked out.

“I don’t know who that person is!” he remembered pondering as unfamiliar faces appeared behind the glass.

The state of affairs rapidly spiraled.

“So now my family can’t come because I got f—ing random people coming to see me and it was so frustrating,” he stated.

At the time, Meeks was locked up on federal weapons costs after a multi-agency gang crackdown, a part of a rap sheet that included prior convictions.

He in the end served simply over a yr earlier than strolling free into a really totally different sort of highlight.

Some followers even traveled throughout the nation for a glimpse of the viral heartthrob.

“Well, we drove all the way from Tennessee!” one advised him, he recalled.

Others didn’t simply present up — they paid up, stuffing his commissary account with money and sending specific photographs to a person they’d by no means met.

The consideration, he careworn, got here at a heartbreaking value.

“My son’s five years old and he doesn’t understand why I’m not home and he needs to see me,” Meeks stated, recalling how he begged strangers to cease taking his visitation slots.

The hunk shares son Jeremy Jr., born round 2010, with ex-wife Melissa Meeks.

He later welcomed one other son, Jayden, in 2018 with Chloe Green — the British socialite and clothier finest generally known as the daughter of Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green.

During his marriage, he additionally performed stepdad to Melissa’s two youngsters — juggling household life lengthy earlier than his mugshot made him well-known.

He in the end urged followers who have been hogging his visiting hours to put in writing to him as an alternative — something to maintain these treasured in-person moments reserved for his baby.

Meanwhile, Meeks’ isn’t the one case the place seems to be triggered a stir behind bars — or on the streets of Gotham.

As beforehand reported by The Post, New York’s most needed can typically look extra like fashions than fugitives.

Lucie Lora made headlines when a sultry NYPD poster confirmed her twirling her hair and flashing a pout that might cease visitors — and possibly the legislation, too.

She and her brother have been later busted for attempting to swipe an engagement ring in Jackson Heights, although cops say the heist went sideways and left the ex damage.

Lora had no prior arrests, however her brother’s rap sheet made positive the NYPD didn’t take any probabilities.