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Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera was in Manhattan Civil Court on Thursday for settlement talks in a medical-malpractice suit over a botched back surgery.

Rivera, 72, is suing the Hospital for Special Surgery on East 70th Street after he went in for the operation in 2010 and came out with a crippled right foot.

“I can’t jog anymore. I can’t play tennis, ski,” he told The Post.

He also has trouble keeping up with his 10-year-old daughter, the Fox News Channel host said.

Bhalinder Rikhye, the hospital’s lawyer, says Rivera injured himself post-surgery when he kicked the refrigerator door in his rehabilitation room.

Rivera is hopeful the hospital will settle.

“I promise any settlement I get, I promise I’m donating 100 percent to charity,” specifically the College of Staten Island’s Social Work School, he said.

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